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Car companies are now cloud companies: BMW to have 10M connected cars in 5 years

Gigaom, Sep 10 2013 - There are around 3 million vehicles that are directly connected to BMW’s data centers, said BMW’s VP of IT Infrastructure Mario Mueller at GigaOM’s Structure Europe conference in London on Wednesday.

The first 4G car, the Audi S3, debuts in Europe; U.S. must wait until spring

Gigaom, Aug 15 2013 - The S3 Sportback is the first production car with LTE integrated into the dash — though SIM card is not included. Next spring, the U.S. will get its first 4G car, the Audi A3.