The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas kicks off this week and the first major announcement from the automotive world comes from Kia in the form of its UVO (short for “your voice”) infotainment system.
Co-developed by Microsoft and based on the Windows Embedded Auto software, UVO is similar to Ford’s beloved SYNC system, offering [...]
MyFord Touch – Click above for high-res image gallery
Ford began its MyFord Touch presentation with a simple question: “People line up for iPhones – why not cars?” What is it about certain pieces of technology that makes them a “must have”? And since the iPhone is really just a merger of two things we already [...]
Hands on with MyFord Touch and SYNC App Ecosystem – Click above for high-res image gallery
You’ve read the PR, seen the press shots and probably snickered a little at the quote from Ford’s Derrick Kuzak indicating that his company’s latest tech “will cause people to fall in love with their vehicles again.” After getting a [...]
Ford CEO Alan Mulally’s CES Keynote – Click above to follow along on Engadget
As we speak, Ford CEO Alan Mulally is getting ready to take the stage in Las Vegas and give the keynote speech to kick off the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Our sister-site Engadget has an army of reporters on scene, some [...]
Kia’s UVO system hands-on – Click above to watch video after the jump
Tucked in between Google’s hot new smartphone and a variety of other computer peripheral equipment at this year’s CES show is a crossover. Not the jacked-up, tricked-out, neon-dragging customized type that we typically see around the Consumer Electronics Show, but a bone-stock, [...]
The 2010 Consumer Electronics Show is underway, and Ford CEO and President Alan Mulally kicked it off with a lengthy keynote. A very lengthy keynote. For an hour-an-a-half, we were peppered with details about Ford’s successes, its inspirations, and, of course, its plans for the future. We’ve already learned quite a bit about what’s coming [...]
Audi’s all-new Multi Media Interface – Click above for high-res image gallery
Audi’s Multi Media Interface, or MMI, may not have been all things to all people when it launched in 2004, but Audi has been continually improving the system, making it the defacto way to access media in your Quattro-equipped sled. It’s getting better still, [...]
You may not have heard of Hughes Telematics before, but this offshoot of the great Hughes empire provides the tech that, amongst other things, powers Mercedes’ latest mbrace technology, Benz’s response to OnStar. But that’s not all they do; the company is working on its own advanced infotainment system for the car, and also showed [...]
News hasn’t exactly been great for Visteon of late, what with getting delisted, filing for bankruptcy and attempting to end the pensions of thousands of retirees. That’s the bad news. The good news? A suite of impressive prototype dashboards on display at the Consumer Electronics Show that ranges from the pedestrian, multi-colored model in the [...]
When you think Microsoft car technology you think SYNC, right? Perfectly natural, since it’s the only place Redmond’s bits and bytes have made much of an impact on the automotive scene. But SYNC is just Ford’s flavor of Microsoft’s Windows Embedded Technologies — naturally with plenty of customizations and functionality on top. It’s not an [...]
Here’s another first for Ford after the revelation of its motion-capturing software: The Blue Oval will be the first to offer iTunes tagging through iPods on SYNC-equipped vehicles. Right behind the announcement of mobile Internet connectivity being added to SYNC, this will go along with the package of mobile apps the carmaker will reveal at [...]
Ford’s victory with Sync isn’t contestable – the connectivity system has a 70-percent uptake rate, and 32 percent of people list it as one of the reasons they bought a Ford. Over one million Sync-equipped vehicles have been sold in three years. The Blue Oval’s exclusive deal with Microsoft ended last year and other [...]
For years, Microsoft founder and former CEO Bill Gates was the keynoter at the Consumer Electronics Show. When Microsoft first announced its intention to create software for cars nearly a decade ago, most people that had suffered through the indignities of the blue screen of death recoiled in horror. The idea of having to close [...]
Back in 2008 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we got to spend some time in a Jeep Grand Cherokee outfitted with a bunch of technogoodies from Hughes Telematics. And again at this year’s CES, Hughes let us play with even cooler stuff in a Dodge Journey. They bragged of downloadable apps for [...]
Adding a really loud, powerful horn to a very small car has been causing fits of laughter for a while now… but if that is too passe’ for you, why not consider the Hornstones FX-550 First seen at CES, this device allows you to play almost any audio file that can be transferred via USB [...]
