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• Volkswagen aligns with Microsoft Azure in cloud push

  German automaker Volkswagen AG will use Microsoft Azure to provide all future digital services and mobility offerings across its entire fleet.

• Technology for 'flying cabs' available within 10 years: Porsche

  Porsche is studying flying passenger vehicles but expects it could take up to a decade to finalise technology before they can launch in real traffic, its head of development said on Tuesday.

• Volkswagen is founding a new cybersecurity firm to prevent car hacking

  As cars become more computerized, the vehicles are facing a greater risk of being hacked. That’s why Volkswagen is founding a new cyber security company devoted to protecting next generation cars.

• Apple reveals more than 100 car models that support CarPlay

  Apple today released an updated list of car models that support its iPhone-mirroring API CarPlay, but the list excludes some major car makers -- at least for now.

• Carmakers promise they'll protect driver privacy -- really

  The world's 19 biggest automakers <a href="https://www.globalautomakers.org/topic/privacy">have agreed to principles</a> they say will protect driver privacy in an electronic age where in-vehicle computers collect everything from location and speed to what smartphone you use.

• Cars get connected, and talkative

  Connected cars are big at this year's Cebit trade show, with driverless cars and products to communicate with the vehicle' onboard computers on display, but cooler apps are needed for the sector to really take off.

• At Cebit opening ceremony, leaders evoke need to protect private data

  Protecting privacy was on the minds of almost all the dignitaries assembled in Hanover, Germany, on Sunday night to open this year's Cebit trade show, the theme of which is "datability," or big data with responsibility.

• Mirrorlink 1.1 protocol brings third-party apps to in-car screens

  Allowing drivers to access more mobile phone apps on a dashboard display while at the wheel sounds like a recipe for disaster -- but at Mobile World Congress members of the Car Connectivity Consortium showed how they plan to do this while limiting distractions with a technology called MirrorLink.

• Super Bowl sets Twitter record, as Volkswagen launches social war room

  The Super Bowl may have set a record for Twitter, but it was a tougher game for companies trying to score big on social media.

• Volkswagen looks to drive social Super Bowl

  Volkswagen of America is looking to capitalize on an expected broad use of social media by viewers of Sunday's Super Bowl.

• Android Roundup: Samsung takes its medicine in astroturfing, defective phone flap

  Samsung made a lot of headlines this week, though probably not for the reasons it would like.

• University condemns court ban of research paper on flaws in car lock system

  A court ban on a research paper that analyzes flaws in a car-lock system should be overturned, according to the Dutch university that employs two of the three researchers who wrote the analysis.

• Cloud security vendor Crossbeam bought by private equity firm

  Crossbeam has been bought by private equity firm Thoma Bravo, opening up the door for the security company to expand its product line both in-house and via acquisitions.

• Report: Google, Intel among Chinese hacker targets

  Cyberspies from China have hit 760 companies, research institutions, ISPs and government agencies over the past decade, according to a <a href="http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-13/china-based-hacking-of-760-companies-reflects-undeclared-global-cyber-war?category=%2Fnews%2Fmostread%2F">Bloomberg article</a> published Tuesday.

• Volkswagen aims for 'rolling computer'

  The road Volkswagen wants to take in building cars is one that infuses them with intelligence, connectivity and new kinds of capabilities.