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 launches the automotive industry's first open mobile app developer program enabling software developers to integrate their apps with SYNC ® AppLink ™ LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2013 – Providing ...

In the ecosystem gamble of "open" or "closed," Ford is putting all its chips on open. At this week's Mobile World Congress, Ford announced it's releasing the proprietary source code for its Sync ...

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 ...

Our cars have become increasingly connected, but building apps for them has generally involved small private betas and a lot of hand-holding from car manufacturers. The first manufacturer to open up ...

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 has announced that it has become the first American automaker to contribute open-source software code to the GENIVI Alliance. The code Ford has contributed goes with its AppLink feature allowing ...

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 ...

Ford announced at its CES media event this afternoon that it wants to reduce the number of platforms developers need to target in the nascent car-to-smartphone integration market, and to do that, it’s ...

Ford announced that it would open-source its AppLink connected car platform at CES two years ago; at the time, it seemed unlikely that any global automakers would bite, considering the industry’s ...

"It's open, it's global, it's live, let's hack!" says Ford's John Eliss, global technologist for connected services. Ford has been leading the way in networking its cars and encouraging app developers ...