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Kevin Fitchard Mar 9, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- 700,000 stores now take iPhone

Apple has tripled the number of stores accepting Pay in 5 months

Apple Pay is accepted by 700,000 retailer locations in the U.S., and the iPhone-embedded payment service now loads cards from 2,500 card…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 10, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Car versus tablet. Who wins?

Car makers clash with Congress over Wi-Fi

Congress wants U.S. regulators to hurry up and open a chunk of federal 5.9 GHz airwaves for commercial Wi-Fi, which would let more smartphones,…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 9, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Don't hack my ride

Senator Markey: Our connected cars are insecure and leaking data

As our cars gain more means to reach and connect to our smartphones, the cloud and the internet, they’re also creating more…

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Cloud & Infrastructure, Data Infrastructure, AI & Analytics, Mobile, Technology
Whitey Bluestein Feb 7, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Driving the 2015 Audi A3

My experience driving the new Audi 4G LTE connected car

For six weeks, I’ve been driving the first 4G LTE car model to hit the U.S. market — the 2015 Audi A3,…

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Technology
Kevin Fitchard Feb 5, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Making blind cars see

Indiegogo project CarVi puts a drive camera into older cars

A lot of the new high-end cars hitting the road come with a bevy of sensors designed to assist drivers and in…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Jan 28, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- The liability game

Uber and MetroMile offer drivers per-mile insurance between fares

Uber has partnered with on-demand insurance provider MetroMile to start to unravel the tangled web of insurance liability it and its drivers…

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Mobile, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Kevin Fitchard Jan 27, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Vroom goes the 4G network

AT&T grows by 1.9 million connections, many of which were cars

AT&T posted yet another strong quarter for new connections, but unlike previous periods this fourth quarter was driven (pun intended) largely by…

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Mobile
Kevin Fitchard Jan 21, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Drive-by tweeting

Facebook and Twitter in our cars? It’s a gimmick, says Nokia

An increasing number of automakers from Toyota to Mercedes are putting social media apps and features into their car dashboard, but Nokia’s…

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Mobile, Technology, Work & Collaboration
Kevin Fitchard Jan 13, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Connecting unconnected cars

Verizon unveils a car plug-in module providing OnStar-like services

Verizon unveiled its own take on the aftermarket connected car module Tuesday at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Called…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Jan 12, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Bring your own maps

With AppLink 3.0, Ford lets you choose your navigation app

Drivers have long waited for the day their favorite smartphone navigation apps would come to their dashboards, but in the case of…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Jan 6, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- At CES, cars meet IoT

Cars aren’t just connecting to the internet; they’re connecting to everything

As in previous years, we’re seeing a lot of car connectivity news at the Consumer Electronics Showcase, but an interesting theme is…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Jan 5, 2015 (Jun 11, 2020) -- The pimped rides of CES

Subaru cars go 4G while OnStar starts teaching driver’s ed

CES is becoming quite the show of late for automakers and their suppliers to show off new connected car technologies, and this…

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Mobile, Technology
David Meyer Dec 22, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Safety first

Volvo, Ericsson and POC show off crash-avoidance cycling helmet

A trio of Swedish firms — car manufacturer Volvo, helmet maker POC and networking outfit Ericsson — have announced a collaboration around…

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Europe, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Dec 11, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- To the scrap heap

Ford axes MyFord Touch, replacing it with a new in-dash system

Ford is replacing the much-reviled MyFord Touch with a new infotainment system based on Sync AppLink, its more successful in-dash connected car…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Dec 2, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Gas, grass or apps

Like Pandora, Slacker foresees a shift in streaming to the car

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 again – this time into the car dashboard.…

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Mobile
Kevin Fitchard Nov 25, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

This car gadget links your smoking engine to the right mechanic

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 the dash.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Nov 19, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Ford moves away from car features to car “experiences”

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 interior controls of the vehicle.…

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Technology
Kevin C. Tofel Nov 18, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Developers, start your engines: Android Auto APIs arrive

The first APIs for developers to extend their Android apps to the car are here but Google has limited them to two for now: Messaging and audio functions.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Nov 13, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Gracenote wants to be the music interface of the connected car

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 your car.…

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Mobile
Kevin Fitchard Nov 4, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Mojio launches its plug-in car module that connects the unconnected car

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 make their apps smarter.…

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Apple, Cloud & Infrastructure, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 27, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Automatic launches a ‘driver’s ed’ mode that will evaluate your kid’s highway skills

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.…

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Apple, Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 22, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

AT&T connects half a million cars to its LTE network in Q3

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.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 16, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Ford: Apple and Google are welcome in our cars, but Sync is here to stay

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 Apple and Google fit into that future.…

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Mobile, Technology
Kevin Fitchard Oct 15, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Pandora: We want to be the FM radio of the connected car

It will be a long time before every car dashboard has its own internet connection, but at the rate Pandora is going it will probably be capable of streaming music to every single one of them.…

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Mobile, Technology

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