Ford Uses Wi-Fi to Customize Cars

Ford today announced that its emergency service SYNC 911 Assist is now available in 2 million vehicles in the United States.

SYNC 911 Assist was introduced to the public at the 2008 International CES. It was first available on 2009 model year vehicles with a dealer-installed upgrade available for 2008 models. The service is available on al...

Ford today announced that it is working with developers to bring smartphone applications to the dashboards of its cars via its SYNC technology. It is making a software development kit (SDK) and application programming interfaces (APIs) available to developers so they can modify existing apps to work hands-free using voice recognition through Ford SYNC. Ford believes this will lead to safer driving. Ford is initially targeting applications such as news, weather, entertainment, location-based services, financial and scheduling services.

TomTom today announced a partnership with Ford in Europe to integrate its GO LIVE 1000 and 1005 PNDs to several car models with a specifically designed cradle.

The PNDs can be ordered at Ford dealers for the following models: Ford KA, Ford Fiesta, Ford Focus 2011, Ford C-Max, and all LCV models.

Last week at the CES trade show Ford unveiled a version of MyFord Mobile App that allows Ford electric cars owners to remotely control select functions in their vehicles.

Ford Motor Co., stung by falling quality ratings because of its glitch-prone MyFord Touch system, is planning a major upgrade that it hopes will fix the problems -- and repair its own reputation.

Early next year, Ford is sending flash drives with a software upgrade to approximately 250,000 U.S. customers with MyFord Touch and MyLincoln Touch, the equivalent system in Ford's luxury Lincoln brand. Owners can do the upgrade themselves in about 45 minutes, or dealers will do it for free.

Ford Motors announced last week that it has been installing its Ford SYNC in-car connectivity system on its 3 millionth vehicle in North America.

“Customers buying Ford vehicles are purchasing the system, when available, nearly 80 percent of the time on current 2011 models – up about 4 percentage points compared to 2010 models.”, said th...

Speaking at the CTIA trade show last week, Ford said it is currently reviewing 1,000 submissions of application developers that would like to leverage voice recognition through its Ford SYNC platform for safer app control while driving. The company initially opened its Software Development Kit (SDK) to three app partners: Pandora, Stitcher an...

Sadly Ford isn't confirming the Focus Electric that it saw fit to tease earlier this week, but we can now tell you all about the new smartphone app that will let you monitor the charging of... certain Ford vehicles.