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Mobile Multimedia from Delphi
Does your car think? Going by the speed at which things are moving,
sure it will. At present nearly 22% of a car is electronically controlled
and now software is available to navigate you with the help of Satellite
Radio. Products offered by Delphi Automotive Systems like the Communiport
and the Sirius Satellite Radio will soon help drivers not only navigate
their way through a traffic jam, but also connect their Palmtop
to it and download information while listening to music from more
than 50 channels. 
David Wohleen, Executive Vice President of Delphi Automotive Systems,
while meeting the media after the inauguration of Delphi's Global
Technical Center in I T Park, referred to the fact that Delphi started
their operations in Bangalore in March 2000 and now, after a period
of only seven months, the technical centre is ready go fully operational.
He appreciated the government for giving full impetus to the software
industry to establish a firm foot in the global scenario.
 Delphi
Automotive Systems, an automotive supplier with a long history of
providing high-quality, cutting-edge automotive systems and electronics,
will soon offer its electronics technologies as consumer products
in India. The new concept of Mobile Multimedia has been very well
adopted by Delphi in its products like the Communiport, Infotainment
Mobile PC, OnStar Telematics and others. These products integrate
cellular phones, radio, internet, navigation, computer and also
video systems into one instrument which can neatly fit into your
car.
One such product Communiport has facilities to navigate your car
from one city to another with the help of Global Positioning System.
Adding to it, it will also download information from the PC sitting
in your office by WAP and also convert your speech into text, making
it a hands free facility. Not only that it will read out the text
from your palmtop and also play the MP3 files you request.
The setting up of Delphi Technical Center in India was part of
a concerted effort to meet the increasing demand for software and
mobile multimedia products in vehicles. This technical facility
with a capacity of nearly 300 talented engineers, will initially
focus on embedded software development for automotive controllers
such as engine controllers, antilock brakes, instrument clusters
and mobile multimedia systems. In fact, Delphi is the pioneering
leader in the field of mobile multimedia products with sales figure
to the tune of 114 million $ in the last quarter.
 Recognizing
India as a major production base for vehicle manufacturers in the
Asia Pacific region, the company had established units here way
back in April 1995. It has since set up world class manufacturing
facilities in Gurgaon (Haryana), Greater Noida (UP) and Bangalore,
which supply to local and international vehicle manufacturers. The
products manufactured in India by Delphi include catalytic converters,
evaporative canisters, wiring harnesses, hydraulic shock absorbers,
half shafts and others.
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