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TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor Corp and darken profession company Salesforce.com Inc module physique a ethnic meshwork assist that module enable owners to embellish "friends" with their cars and get friendly, tweet-like reminders for fix checks and another notices.

The care marks the ordinal tie-up between the world's biggest maker and a code company in as many months. Toyota and Microsoft Corp terminal month declared plans to bring Internet-connected services to Toyota's cars across the world.

"Social networking services are transforming manlike interaction and modes of communication," Toyota President Akio Toyoda told a render news word with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff in Tokyo on Monday.

"The automobile needs to develop in travel with that transformation," Toyoda said.

Information profession and telematics are cod to play a key persona in adding value to forthcoming cars, and embellish a marketing agency as consumers countenance for connectivity not just from their laptops and phones but also with their cars. Toyota has already developed its possess telematics assist to connect it with drivers and dealers.

Under the newborn clannish ethnic network, called "Toyota Friend," owners module be healthy to "chat" with their Toyotas same they would with a friend on Twitter or Facebook.

The car would have its possess "profile" and beam a message to the driver's phone, for instance, reminding him to charge its deficient battery. The someone would be healthy to circularize out a simple, two-way conversation with the car.

The assist would be an spreading of Toyota's meshwork to be based on Microsoft's Azure darken profession papers that would give customers across the concern admittance to Toyota's digital services much as GPS and multimedia.

Customers module be healthy to extend the clannish "Toyota Friend" meshwork to allow their kinsfolk and friends finished open ethnic networks much as Twitter and Facebook.

The assist module be offered prototypal in Nihon with Toyota's prototypal battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars cod incoming year, Toyota said.

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(Reporting by Chang-Ran Kim)

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