Ford SYNC AppLink and Life360 Introduce features to keep drivers focused and connected

Modern families want to stay connected to each other and to friends, even when they’re on the go and miles apart. Ford Motor Company and Life360 want to help.

“We are thrilled to be working with Ford to take on such an important issue and help reduce texting and driving”

Ford will be the first automaker to offer in-car use of the popular family locator app Life360 with Drive Mode – a new capability that helps drivers stay focused on the road by alerting their family and friends not to text when they are driving.

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All the episodes of 'Friends' now available on Netflix

The great adventures of Ross, Chandler, Joey, Monica, Phoebe and Rachel are now ready for a holiday binge watching bacchanalia. All 10 seasons of the beloved show are available from Netflix, best of all, the entire series has been upgraded to 1080p HD with 5.1 surround sound (a result of an earlier remastering of the series for a Blu-Ray release). Pretty great New Year's treat from Netflix.

Samsung to offer PlayStation Now on 2015 Smart TVs

Samsung and Sony don’t usually play nice. Unless, it’ll benefit both of them. At the upcoming CES 2015, we will be seeing Samsung’s new range of Smart TVs to have support for PlayStation Now. It was announced before Christmas but the actual products will be on showcase at the tech show.

PlayStation Now on Samsung should work like an app as well that connect’s to Sony’s Gakai-powered games service. North American consumers are expected to be part of the rollout of these new TVs this year.

Source: Kotaku

Twitter begins roll out of ‘while you were away’ recap

Ever wondered what the people you follow on Twitter say when you aren’t on the service? Instead of scrolling back, Twitter introduced a new “While you were away” feature to its users. They first talked about this in November as part of their plan to boost user engagement. This feature shows a recap of tweets since you last opened the app. It will show up at the top of your timeline. We don’t exactly know how Twitter chooses which tweets get the special mention. It most likely involves retweets and favorites.

According to The Verge, it doesn’t break up the flow of your Twitter feed too much. It isn’t available for everyone just yet but there seem to be a large number of users who have it already. We’ll just have to wait a bit for the official announcement and wider rollout.

Source: TechCrunch | Via: The Verge