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Ford SYNC, the in-car voice activation technology created by Microsoft is getting a big update – it now understands more than 10,000 voice commands. That’s up from 100 in the first generation of the product. 10,000, wow! According to the news release, you can now tell the car anything from “Call…

Ford SYNC, an in-car communications and entertainment technology developed by Microsoft and Ford based on the Microsoft Auto platform, is currently available in a number of Ford vehicles including the Focus, Edge, Explorer, Taurus, and others, including a few from Mercury and Lincoln. However, 2011…

A friend of mine just tweeted an interesting tip from LifeHacker: you can add your Dropbox folder directly to the Windows 7 Start Menu. For those of you that don’t know, Dropbox is a file synchronization service that lets you keep files on multiple computers in sync similar to Windows Live Sync or…

Windows Live Sync, the file sharing and synchronization service, (no, not that one, the other one) has officially joined the Windows Live set of applications with the latest revamp of the service. According to the team blog post, Live Sync “has a new look,” but it seems that it’s more than just a…

After deploying Blue&Me for Fiat and Sync for Ford, in-car dialog systems are morphing from cool gadgets that amaze people and sell more cars to integral parts of in-car infotainment. Commute UX raises the bar for the functionality, usability and reliability of these systems.…

A couple of months ago, we looked at a way you could export you Facebook calendar and import it into Windows Live using a link provided on the Facebook web site. Basically, that tip involved heading to http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/events.php on Facebook and choosing “Export Events.” You could…

If you’re already using Windows Live Mesh to keep your files and photos between PCs in sync, then you don’t really need to worry with using Windows Live Sync (formerly called FolderShare). However, if you never installed the beta Mesh software and you’re just looking for a simple solution to keep…

I got together with Greg Baribault from Microsoft Auto while at CES to get a look at what new things Microsoft Auto is working on. They include the new V.3 of Ford Sync, of course, but also some interesting diagnostics applications in conjunction with Fiat, and a really nice in-truck computer system…

At CES, Ford CEO Alan Mulally unveiled a new version of the SYNC technology. Although SYNC has been around for awhile, the newly upgraded version now includes features like personalized news, traffic reports, and turn-by-turn directions that use the vehicle’s audio and radio system. SYNC also works…

AOL has just launched AOL Sync, a new tool that keeps your contacts and calendar (calendar coming soon) in sync between Windows Mobile, Outlook/Outlook Express, and AOL. The service works over-the-air so you only need to set it once in order for it to work. With AOL Sync, you can synchronize your…