Apple's CarPlay initiative improves in-car iPhone integration

Apple today announced that leading auto manufacturers are rolling out CarPlay which integrates iPhone into vehicles. CarPlay gives iPhone users an incredibly intuitive way to make calls, use Maps, listen to music and access messages with just a word or a touch.

Users can easily control CarPlay from the car’s native interface or just push-and-hold the voice control button on the steering wheel to activate Siri without distraction.

Vehicles from Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo will premiere CarPlay to their drivers this week, while additional auto manufacturers bringing CarPlay to their drivers down the road include BMW Group, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia Motors, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan Motor Company, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota Motor Corp. 

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First Impressions on Apple iOS 7

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

What a long, strange trip it's been for iOS. The operating system, which powers 700 million iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads, started as a series modified web applications on the original iPhone and then steadily developed into a full-blown developer supported ecosystem that became the blueprint for distributing software on smartphones.

With iOS 7, which is available for free right now via a software update, Apple has gone from having the oldest mobile operating system to having the newest. Let's see what it is all about.

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Tomorrow is iPad mini day

Apple's much anticipated iPad mini finally makes it to stores tomorrow. The WiFi variant of the 7.9-inch tablet was open for preorders last week but all of those have been spoken for and are sold out. The only way to get a new iPad mini is by going to an Apple Retail Store and those will open at 8 a.m. Have your heart set on the 4G LTE+WiFi models? Those aren't coming until the end of the month. If the fun-size iPad isn't your cup of tea, the new 4th generation iPad with that blazing new A6X processor hits stores as well.

Apple updates iPod Line

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

San Francisco- Apple Inc. unveiled updated iPods today including redesigned iPod nanos as well as a brand new iPod Touch. Apple continues to sell the iPad classic and they also added new colours to the iPod Shuffle.

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