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'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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...