During the BlackBerry Live 2013 keynote, QNX rolled out the QNX Bentley. Showing the amazing QNX CAR platform, Mark Rigley, demoed an in-car BBM Video chat. This was a first for any company. A video call within a car to a mobile phone. BlackBerry certainly demonstrated the power behind BlackBerry 10 as a mobile computing end point. QNX also demoed how seamlessly they could update the Bentley’... »
QNX Software Systems Limited and Renesas Electronics Corporation today announced that they are integrating support for the Renesas R-Car SoC (system on chip) platform into the QNX CAR™ application platform to help automotive companies reduce the time and effort of building advanced infotainment systems. As part of their growing collaboration, the companies also announced that QNX Software Systems ... »
BlackBerry just turned up the heat against Apple in the in-car music service biz. BlackBerry’s QNX has announced a partnership with 7digital. The partnership will make 7digital’s catalogue of 23 million songs available through the QNX CAR platform. This will seamlessly fit with the QNX infotainment system found in Audi, BMW, GM, Honda, and Toyota. “Connected and mobile devices ha... »
Today Bsquare announced that it will begin to distribute the QNX operating system and development tool products. The good news keep on coming for BlackBerry and the QNX family. Below you can find the press release. Bsquare to Distribute QNX Operating System and Development Tool Products Distribution Agreement Expands Customer Access to Medical, Industrial Automation and General Embedded Sof... »
Lots of news coming from QNX today, earlier we told you about their announcement of the QNX CAR application platform 2.0. RIM and QNX have shown off their new Bentley concept car at CES, running their QNX CAR application platform. It’s a modified Bentley Continental GT and offers in-car infotainment, smartphone integration, HTML5 engine, mobile device gateway and much more. RIM and QNX are w... »
Press Release QNX Announces Release of QNX CAR Platform 2.0 Platform already being adopted by automotive community for next-generation infotainment systems LAS VEGAS, NEVADA–(Marketwire – January 08, 2013) – 2013 International CES (North Hall, Booth 1837) -QNX Software Systems Limited, a global leader in software platforms for in-car electronics, today announced that a release of... »
QNX announced today that Delphi Automotive has chosen QNX CAR application platform 2.0 for their next-generation infotainment systems. Derek Kuhn, vice president of sales and marketing, said: [quote]“QNX Software Systems has been honored to support Delphi’s commitment to innovative automotive solutions for more than a decade,”[/quote] QNX is one of the top in-vehicle systems, wit... »
QNX has announced a cool new in-car speech recognition framework that will allow systems in cars to understand a speaker’s intent. This new framework would allow users to perform tasks such as creating calendar appointments, write emails and text messages, internet searches and more. This is a very cool feature that makes the QNX platform even more flexible and awesome. Check out the press r... »
Earlier today I discussed why BlackBerry and more importantly, Research In Motion, would not die. RIM has many more revenue streams other than BlackBerry hardware and subscriber sales. One of those revenue streams is still through QNX and how it is used in automotive infotainment systems. QNX is currently used for the infotainment system in Audis. Yesterday, Texas Instruments announced that the QN... »
The team at QNX wants to show the many members behind the scenes. To start, the QNX team has conducted the first of many interviews, this one with the QNX director, Mark Rigley. This little interview gives you an inside look at the players behind QNX. You’ll from this interview that Mark is very enthusiastic about QNX and its future. On a BlackBerry? Click here for mobile YouTube video via Q... »
CES 2013 is just around the corner with only a few more months to go. At last year’s CES, the QNX CAR 2 won the Best of CES award for Car Tech. This year the QNX CAR 2 application platform has been named an International CES Innovations 2013 Design and Engineering Awards Honoree, in the Software & Mobile Apps category. Check out the press release below for the full details: Press Release... »
Mobile developers can now create automotive apps based on standard web technologies like CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript DETROIT, MICHIGAN–(Marketwire – October 16, 2012) – SAE Convergence 2012 (booth 815) – Mobile app developers see car infotainment as a potentially lucrative new market, and automakers want to leverage the talents of the mobile community – but until now,... »
QNX and NVIDIA to showcase advanced infotainment system featuring live Google Earth navigation at SAE Convergence 2012 DETROIT, MICHIGAN–(Marketwire – October 16, 2012) – SAE Convergence 2012 (booths 815, 809) - QNX Software Systems Limited, a global leader in software platforms for in-car infotainment and telematics systems, today announced that it is working with NVIDIA to brin... »
BlackBerry 10 is going to be a very secure mobile computing system. Scratch that. BlackBerry 10 is going to be a secure platform, entirely, with unlimited usage possibilities. This is of course thanks to the use of QNX operating system, which is the foundation of BlackBerry 10. Sebastien Marineau, the senior vice president of BlackBerry OS, recently sat down with TechRadar. Additionally, you can s... »
After more than a year, and amid the drama, speculation and buzz surrounding BlackBerry 10, Research in Motion has rather silently delivered on their promise of a 4G BlackBerry PlayBook. Putting aside the improved processor, 4G radio, and NFC, you’d be hard-pressed to find any difference between it and the original PlayBook. Yet, this could be considered a milestone in itself, marking RIM’s fir... »
Derek Kuhn from QNX delivered a keynote presentation to the Automotive Parts and Manufacturing Association (APMA) at their annual conference & exhibition June 2012 about software innovation in the automotive market. Check out the video below for part 1 of 3. Let us know what you think about the future of QNX and infotainment systems. On a BlackBerry? Click here for mobile YouTube video »
There was an non-profit initiative that has been pushing the ‘PlayBook Moon Rover’, which seemingly had some users confused with the recent Mars Curiosity Rover. However, as pointed out in the forums thread on the Mars Curiosity using QNX, the rover is actually utilizing VxWorks by Wind River. Both VxWorks and QNX are real-time operating systems, therefore it’s up for debate on w... »
It’s that moment you’ve all been waiting for. It’s finally time to get your app up and running! Make sure you’ve completed Part 1 of the guide, which helps you through the process of installing the BlackBerry 10 app-building tools. I’ve decided that I’ll start you guys off simple. And I mean SUPER simple. You won’t need any godly wizard-like coding skills whatsoever. It’s qu... »
Ever want to write your own BlackBerry 10 app and have it in App World but even the sight of code makes you think Chinese would be easier to learn? Have no fear, it is easy! App development does not require years of coding experience (even though it helps a lot). Ready to go? You’ll have your own fluid, native, Cascades app running in no time (and for free too)! INSTRUCTIONS ARE FOR PC USERS O... »
QNX, the team behind the amazing operating system, has been making leaps and bounds in the infotainment industry. So far, we’ve gotten a glimpse at their CAR 2 infotainment system in a Porsche 911 and shown how it can be utilized in other industries, such as police cruisers. Word on the street says another mobile leader looks to be eying the auto industry too. Apple is allegedly in discussio... »
