An official (not forum post) article comparing the two: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/induction-versus-dc-brushles...
DC Brushless and PMAC are interchangeable. Oh, and nowadays, you don't need sensors (hall, encoder etc). 'Sensorless' motor control is possible by sensing the back emf of the motor or reconstructing the motor current via (super inexpensive) shunt resistors on the legs of the inverter.
At low power levels, permanent magnet motors (specifically brushless motors) tend to have higher efficiency than induction motors, additionally, they don't require complicated control systems to operate efficiently at varying speeds. Thus you are unlikely to see an induction motor in an RC model anytime soon.
Synchronous motors are motors where the rotation of the magnetic field is synchronous with the rotation of the motor. For all induction motors, the induced field is a result of a varying magnetic field across the element in question. This implies that the speed of the rotor must be different than the speed of the magnetic field. Thus, no induction motor is a synchronous motor, almost by definition.