CES is becoming quite the show of late for automakers and their suppliers to show off new connected car technologies, and this year’s annual Vegas tech extravaganza was no exception. Here… Read more »
Ford is replacing the much-reviled MyFord Touch with a new infotainment system based on Sync AppLink, its more successful in-dash connected car platform. The new system will be called Sync 3,… Read more »
Slacker Radio was born in a dedicated portable music player, and it found its eventual home in the smartphone. But Slacker’s new CEO anticipates the streaming app will one day relocate… Read more »
Mechanic Advisor is launching its own connected car device that plugs into your vehicle’s on-board diagnostic port and helps you interpret that scary check engine light when it starts blinking on… Read more »
While that focus has been mainly on industrial design throughout Ford’s century-long existence, Ford is now venturing into the world of digital design, shifting much of the design focus to the… Read more »
Gracenote has big ambitions in the car. It wants to use its audio-fingerprinting technology to become a kind of meta-car radio, that can negotiate between all of the music sources in… Read more »
Mojio’s new plug-in car module will link your car to the cloud, tracking the daily minutiae of driving. App developers like Glympse, Concur and IFTTT are then using that data to… Read more »
A new feature in the Automatic Link called License+ will track a teenager’s driving behavior over 100 hours, giving concerned parents a way to test their kids performance on the road. Read more »
AT&T adds 2 million new connections in Q3, but it’s most impressive growth came in the connected car as GM and Audi rolled out their 4G vehicles this year. Read more »
Ford’s connected car chief Don Butler will be at Gigaom’s Structure Connect conference next week to talk about the future networked vehicle. As a preview to his talk he discussed where… Read more »