It no news that BlackBerry has stopped producing smartphone so they are not wasting any time moving away from smartphones to what will favour them. They announced on Monday 1st Nov 2016 to have secure a deal with Ford to work on automotive software.
John Chen CEO of BlackBerry said “The future of the automobile is all about embedded intelligence,” in a statement. “I believe our expertise in secure embedded software makes us the preferred technology provider to put the smart in the car.”
Blackberry are dedicated to working with Ford on expanding the use of its QNX Neutrino Operating System, Certicom security technology, QNX hypervisor, and QNX audio processing software for automotive applications. This agreement will help develop secure mission-critical applications to power the connected car.
It will be great to know that 60 million vehicles have BlackBerry’s QNX software installed on it, this also including the SYNC 3 Infotainment system used in current Ford models.
Ford is happy to say “With the success of our SYNC 3 system globally, which is based on the BlackBerry QNX operating system, we understand the importance of the connected-car experience to our customers,” Ford Executive Vice President of Product Development and CTO Raj Nair said. “Growing our expertise, experience, and use of the BlackBerry QNX embedded software platforms will help ensure we deliver the high-quality, highly secure experience that our customers expect.”
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Your comment and facebook share will be appreciated