Ford is trying to blaze an untraveled trail in the automotive industry: The company is aiming to make its AppLink platform open to all automakers with no costs or restrictions. On Monday, the ...

Ford, through its Livio division, has announced a partnership with Toyota to equip future Toyota and Lexus vehicles with SmartDeviceLink (SDL) technology, an open-source version of Ford's AppLink.

LAS VEGAS—At last year’s CES, Ford paired with several companies (including INRIX and NPR) to expand the app offering for its voice-activated app platform, SYNC AppLink. This year, the Detroit-based ...

Ford pushes Sync AppLink as a legitimate interface on par with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and will offer all three. Toyota goes further; it adopts open AppLink, but not CarPlay or Android Auto.

Ford is establishing an open-source Genivi project that will contain the code and documentation necessary to implement AppLink software into any vehicle s infotainment system for iOSand Android ...

Well, this was a long time coming. Spotify's upping it car compatibility by bringing its streaming services to Ford's Sync AppLink. The voice controlled version of the app lets users perform the ...

Ford's SYNC AppLink technology for smartphone voice control while behind the wheel is currently only a feature of a handful of big-name apps. That may soon change, however, as here at CES, the motor ...

As for the metric carload of newly Sync-compatible apps, here they are: Wall Street Journal (live and on-demand radio content) USA Today (listen to articles and headlines; play, pause, skip, move ...