Mbrace2 puts Facebook in your Mercedes-Benz

While Mercedes-Benz unveiled the new SL-Class in Detroit, at CES it showed the new app technology that will be featured in the new car. (Credit: Timothy Hornyak/CNET) LAS VEGAS--As its luxury competitors showed off new connected-car features and integrated apps, Mercedes-Benz lagged, until now. At CES 2012 Mercedes-Benz revealed a full-featured new telematics system, Mbrace2, which gives drivers ...

Mbrace2 gives Mercedes-Benz an app strategy

While Mercedes-Benz unveiled the new SL-Class in Detroit, at CES it showed the new app technology that will be featured in the new car. (Credit: Timothy Hornyak/CNET) LAS VEGAS--As its luxury competitors showed off new connected-car features and integrated apps, Mercedes-Benz lagged, until now. At CES 2012 Mercedes-Benz revealed a full-featured new telematics system, Mbrace2, which gives drivers ...

HARMAN Ranks as Top Tier 1 Supplier of Auto Navigation Systems among the Ten Best Factory Installed Systems

In a recent J.D. Power and Associates study examining customers' usage and satisfaction with factory-installed auto navigation systems, HARMAN, the global leading supplier of premi

Mercedes-Benz gesture control concept is DICEy

Ze Germans seem to be obsessed with Minority Report-style interior controls, and Mercedes-Benz has taken it to the next level with a full-scale interior with nary a button or switch to be found. Mercedes' Dynamic & Intuitive Control Experience (DICE) utilizes a series of proximity sensors to detect arm and hand movements, which control everything from music, navigation and social functionality ...

Mercedes-Benz Mbrace2 adds Facebook, Google Street View and Yelp

While drivers continue to rely on smartphones to check services like Facebook and Yelp while driving, Mercedes-Benz is looking to move that behavior to the dash of the car with the second version of Mbrace technology.