Roland Krause

A seasoned software engineering executive, Roland has more than a decade of experience in architecture and design of large scale embedded software projects, and managing a global team of Qt engineers.

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Media Manager for Automotive Infotainment (Part 4)

Monday, May 2, 2016 - 10:33 • By Roland Krause • automotive IVI, Media Manager, Qt

In this blog post, we will explain the core architecture of the media manager.

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Automotive IVI Media Manager Announcements

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 14:33 • By Roland Krause • IVI, Open Source, Automotive, Media Manager, development

Look no further when looking to build a media manager for automotive IVI...ICS just released open source code and all of our events around our Media Manager. Read more and download the code!

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Media Manager for Automotive Infotainment (Part 2)

Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 16:06 • By Roland Krause • IVI, Automotive, Qt, Media Manager

In this blog post, we will show how to address some of the challenges when multiple users bring devices into the car.

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A Media Manager for Automotive Infotainment (Part 1)

Monday, March 14, 2016 - 14:51 • By Roland Krause • IVI, Qt, Media Manager, automotive IVI

We came up with an interesting architecture that addresses many of the vexing issues with existing IVI solutions.

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QNX Powers Ford's Next Connected Automotive Infotainment System, Sync 3

Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 15:22 • By Roland Krause • IVI, QNX, Infotainment Systems, In-vehicle infotainment

Congratulations to our friends at QNX for powering Ford's next Connected Car System, Sync 3. Given that Qt is the standard GUI toolkit for QNX, I suspect that this means that Qt will soon become the de facto standard for IVI System development as well. Read more about this in the articles below: Ford drops Microsoft and revamps its Sync system for more speed - Engadget

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Qt Contributors Summit 2013 Recap

Monday, July 22, 2013 - 11:57 • By Roland Krause •

This year's Qt Contributors Summit was held in conjunction with KDE Akademy in Bilbao, Spain. The event was well attended by engineers from many diverse organizations that share a vital interest in the ongoing development of the Qt libraries.

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