…the most desired feature was the ability to connect an iPod or other MP3 player to the vehicle… [MORE]

Source: Radio Ink

Another advance Ford is promising is the ability to synchronize applications from mobile devices like Apple’s iPhone with the car. That would mean, apparently, being able to run applications like Pandora, via the iPhone, by using control buttons on the car’s steering wheel. Similarly, it should be possible for drivers to get access and manipulate their Facebook or MySpace accounts using voice commands. [MORE]

Source: cnet

Along with the Live services, you also get real-time traffic information, which is updated every two to five minutes. You’ll be alerted to any delays via audio prompts, and if there are any incidents along your course, you can choose to continue on the same path with an updated time of arrival or reroute around the problem. [MORE]

Source: cnet

With music and content available almost everywhere, how does the radio industry compete? The average person, with little effort, can receive a huge variety of music, talk, and information on their computers, mobile phone, GPS devices, and now through their car stereos. Blaupunkt and miRoamer will be announcing a new car radio that will not only receive AM and FM radio, but also connect to thousands of internet radio stations. Should the radio industry be concerned or are the multitude of devices and technologies too confusing for the average person?

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Blaupunkt and miRoamer will announce a partnership at CES that will put internet radio into car dashboards for the first time. [MORE]

Source: Wired

FM transmitters that connect an MP3 player to a car stereo are notoriously unreliable, subject to lots of interference in urban areas and sub-FM-quality sound. [MORE]

Source: CNET

If you want to listen to your iPod or iPhone in your car, you have precious few options. [MORE]

Source: CNET

The TuneCast Auto has received Apple’s “Works with iPhone” certification, according to Belkin. [MORE]

Source: Macworld