BlackBerry today announced a new system that's designed to help automobile makers easily and securely send out wireless software updates to customers' in-car computers and "infotainment" systems. Today at the Telematics Detroit conference, BlackBerry is previewing a new automotive technology for in-vehicle software updates that’s designed to make it easier for automobile manufacturers to send wireless software updates to customers’ cars. From BlackBerry: “Modern vehicles are equipped with sophisticated infotainment systems and dozens of electronic control units (ECUs). Keeping these systems up to date with new or enhanced software functionality is critical, but must be achieved in a way that is economical for the automaker and seamless to the end user…The BlackBerry solution provides automakers with a secure, robust and highly efficient platform for performing these ‘Over-the-air’ (OTA) updates that is independent of network type, hardware, OS, software, and applications…By leveraging BlackBerry’s proven global data infrastructure, this solution is highly scalable to support millions of vehicles and removes the complexity and overhead of automotive manufacturers having to build out and maintain their own internal OTA infrastructure.” BlackBerry has in the past expressed its interesting in the in-vehicle technology market, and its new BlackBerry 10 mobile is built on a code foundation from QNX, a company acquired by BlackBerry in 2010 that has a background building software for automobile computers. You can learn more about the upcoming Software Update Management for Automotive system on BlackBerry.com AS Related content brandpost Resilient data backup and recovery is critical to enterprise success As global data volumes rise, business must prioritize their resiliency strategies. By Neal Weinberg Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Security brandpost Democratizing HPC with multicloud to accelerate engineering innovations Cloud for HPC is facilitating broader access to high performance computing and accelerating innovations and opportunities for all types of organizations. By Tanya O'Hara Jun 01, 2023 6 mins Multi Cloud brandpost Survey: Marketers embrace AI at expense of metaverse investments Generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has quickly rocked the world of marketing. Sitecore polled B2B marketers on their perceptions of GAI. Here’s what they said. By Dave O’Flanagan, Sitecore Jun 01, 2023 4 mins Artificial Intelligence news Zendesk to lay off another 8% of its staff, cites macroeconomic issues The new tranche of layoffs comes just six months after the company let go of 300 staffers and hired a new CEO in order to navigate its operations through macroeconomic distress. By Anirban Ghoshal Jun 01, 2023 3 mins CRM Systems IT Jobs Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe