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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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,…
Read MoreSenator 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…
Read MoreMy 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,…
Read MoreIndiegogo 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…
Read MoreUber 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…
Read MoreAT&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…
Read MoreFacebook 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…
Read MoreVerizon 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…
Read MoreWith 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…
Read MoreCars 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…
Read MoreSubaru 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…
Read MoreVolvo, 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…
Read MoreFord 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…
Read MoreLike 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.…
Read MoreThis 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.…
Read MoreFord 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.…
Read MoreDevelopers, 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.…
Read MoreGracenote 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.…
Read MoreMojio 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.…
Read MoreAutomatic 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.…
Read MoreAT&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.…
Read MoreFord: 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.…
Read MorePandora: 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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