Pour one out for the iDrive knob. Nearly a quarter-century after debuting in production form back in 2001 in the E65-/E66-generation 7-series and becoming a staple of the carmaker's models, BMW is ...

The first iDrive system that debuted in 2001 on the E65-generation BMW 7-series included a control knob meant to mimic a computer's mouse. The proliferation of smartphones over the past decade-plus ...

Pour one out for the iDrive knob. Nearly a quarter-century after debuting in production form back in 2001 in the E65/E66-generation 7 Series and becoming a staple of the carmaker's models, BMW is ...

Two decades after its debut in the 2001 Series 7, BMW’s iDrive infotainment system is among the best on the market. It’s about to get even better — think, natural language processing, gesture control ...

IDrive's new Salesforce Backup is a dedicated solution for data protection and safeguarding. As with any other widely used ...

Oddly enough, one of the best ways to back up your data to an external hard drive comes from a cloud storage company. I’m referring to iDrive, which offers a free local backup utility inside of its ...

iDrive has you covered six ways to Sunday when it comes to backup. Online, local, sync, NAS support, imaging, disaster recovery, online workspaces, snapshots, hard drive shipment… You name it, the ...

The new infotainment system is more like a complete makeover for BMW's digital interface, and it's coming first to its new EVs. It all started with Gran Turismo. From those early PlayStation days, ...

IDrive has both local backup versions and cloud-based backup, but IDrive Express is a service that merges the two. If you find yourself in an area that doesn't have fast, secure Internet (no broadband ...

Automotive screens get seemingly larger every year, but none are as big as the room-size dashboard that BMW used to showcase its next-generation cabin technology suite at CES 2025, with a touchscreen ...

Our own Ed Loh called it "an idea so simple, so elegant, yet so powerful it was to change the way the world interacted with the automobile." Arthur St. Antoine said it was a "maddeningly convoluted ...

As technology advances further in our vehicles, automakers are trying to produce the best-working, best-looking ways to control it all. Some have stumbled and recovered—Cadillac’s Cue and Ford’s Sync, ...