In this case, the mobile device is the new 2011 Ford Fiesta. On May 13th, two Fiestas left the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, headed to Maker Faire, Silicon Valley's annual ideas festival.
Both cars may have left separately but they are linked to each other and the global community through the Internet during this cross-country trip. According to Ford, this is the first time that a car will be socially connected to the world-wide-web will cruising the landscape.
The first of the feisty Fiestas is being driven by a team from Ford Research & Advanced Engineering (R&AE) and IT. They will be demonstrating three experimental apps (Virtual Road Rally, "Auto"matic Blog and Local Search) built for Ford's application development platform which is based on Windows 7 and Microsoft Robotics.
The second one is piloted by U-M students who will be using their own app named Caravan Track. They developed it as part of a 12-week Ford-initiated course called Cloud Computing in the Commute.
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| Photo: Ford |
Both cars may have left separately but they are linked to each other and the global community through the Internet during this cross-country trip. According to Ford, this is the first time that a car will be socially connected to the world-wide-web will cruising the landscape.
The first of the feisty Fiestas is being driven by a team from Ford Research & Advanced Engineering (R&AE) and IT. They will be demonstrating three experimental apps (Virtual Road Rally, "Auto"matic Blog and Local Search) built for Ford's application development platform which is based on Windows 7 and Microsoft Robotics.
The second one is piloted by U-M students who will be using their own app named Caravan Track. They developed it as part of a 12-week Ford-initiated course called Cloud Computing in the Commute.
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| Photo: Ford |