Drivers who buy certain Chevrolet cars in the USA next year will be able to use Apple’s Siri voice-controlled assistant to activate vehicle features when driving. 
The option will be available on Chevrolet Spark and Sonic models that include the Chevrolet MyLink infotainment system.
	 
	
	
		
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		The M-Pesa mobile payment and money transfer service, which was launched five years ago in Kenya by the Safaricom network, has been joined by a savings and loan facility called M-Shwari. 
The new facility has been set up by Vodafone, Safaricom and the Commercial Bank of Africa.
	 
	
	
		
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		A new report by IMS Research forecasts that the number of mobile machine-to-machine (M2M) connections worldwide will treble in five years, from around 107 million connections in 2011 to 326 million connections by 2016. 
It says this growth is being driven by a number of factors, including government regulation, a desire for increased efficiency, declining costs and the availability of services that make it easier to develop M2M applications.
	 
	
	
		
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