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Toyota does not appear to be issuing notices to its customers who have cars with defective Takata airbags – until the customers themselves contact the company.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned drivers of cars that have defective Takata airbags to have them replaced if possible before undertaking road trips in the holiday season.

Every year, consumer advocate CHOICE unveils the list of products, services and companies it has deemed as being worthy of a "Shonky Award", and this year's no different!

Vodafone has taken up a three-year sponsorship of CeBIT Australia as part of its moves to raise awareness of its latest Internet of Things (IOT) technology.

Worldwide production of self-driving cars is forecast to reach 14.5 million in the next 10 years, up significantly from only a few thousands in 2020, according to the latest report from Juniper Research, which also forecasts that more than 22 million of the vehicles will be in use by consumers in 2025.

Digital transformation means organisations need to think about changes to the workplace and applications, and what services need to be deployed, BMC's chief technology officer for EMEA Eric Blum told iTWire.

In around six years, BMW, Intel and Mobileye are promising self-driving vehicles that are "highly and fully automated" thanks to computer vision, machine learning and more.

The new version of Pivotal Big Data Suite delivers wide-ranging improvements.

The Moovit local transport app is now officially serving selected Australian cities following a beta period that attracted more than 200,000 users.

Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 - the tablet that thinks it's a notebook, or perhaps vice versa - has arrived in Australian shops.

If you have been enjoying the recently release Gran Turismo 6 on PlayStation 3 now is your opportunity to enhance the game with a car yet to be released to the real world.

Android platform users can now use their smartphones to command their BMWs.

Autonomous cars, those that drive themselves, are part of your future, and being part of your future is what Google wishes to be, hence the Google driverless car, now officially licensed in, ironically, the biggest gambling state in the USA.

A number of car manufacturers (and search engine providers for that matter) are looking at options for cars that drive themselves; BMW is the latest to remove human hands from the equation of travelling along a motor-way.

An analysis by Distimo shows the world's top brands still favour iOS over Android for their apps. But that may be about to change.

Do BMW drivers really need another road distraction?  Apparently so as in-car internet surfing becomes and option.