The recent data breach that exposed the sensitive information of some 300,000 Avis customers highlighted some critical vulnerabilities within the rental car industry. Stream Connecticut News for free, ...

When infotainment systems first made their appearance in cars many years ago, there were quite a few flops. Yet today, most manage to hold their own quite well. Despite this progress, some brands ...

Apple’s phone-vehicle interface renders your car’s infotainment nearly obsolete. If you're like us, your car and your iPhone are among the most important devices in your daily routine. For all the ...

The majority of car infotainment systems actually increase distraction, not ease it. So says the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the University of Utah, which tested 30 different cars and found ...

CarPlay is popular with drivers, a J.D. Power study reveals, but that could be less about CarPlay, and more about how owners are so unhappy with infotainment systems provided by car makers. As a means ...

Alex Bratton is CEO at Lextech Global Services, a mobile and web dev shop. A recent guest post, “Native vs. HTML5: How the auto industry is forcing change for the mobile web,” posits that HTML5 will ...

In-car, smartphone infotainment systems are a pro for car shoppers, but not necessarily carmakers who'd rather keep your data all for themselves.

There’s an awful lot happening with in-car systems for entertainment and information — especially ones which, in one way or another, work in partnership with smartphone apps. Over at Cnet, Tim Stevens ...

A report by Gracenote, the content data business unit of Nielsen, highlights a significant opportunity for car manufacturers to provide consumers easy access to entertainment content across a range of ...

Ever looked at your car’s dashboard and thought, “Wow, this could really use a glow-up”? If your ride doesn’t boast the sleek wonders of Android Auto, Apple ...

The recent data breach that exposed the sensitive information of some 300,000 Avis customers highlighted some critical vulnerabilities within the rental car industry. Yet, there's another, often ...