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Here’s What General Motors Thinks of Radio
General Motors wants to reach young car buyers but the youth of today are not really interested in broadcast radio, nor even what’s in the dashboard, according to GM’s Dr. Frankie James, Managing Director
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GM Adds 25 New Dealer Trainers for Car Tech
Chevrolet is adding 25 employees to its General Motors Connected Customer Specialists, doubling the number of trainers it sends around the country to train car dealership employees in using the Chevy MyLink infotainment systems
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GM to put 4G in Many 2014 Cars
General Motors will start offering 4G LTE wireless service in calendar 2014 on many cars, trucks and cross over vehicles. The service will be provided through OnStar in conjunction with AT&T, and it will
Read More »New PAC RadioPro Kit for GM
Tampa Bay, FL – With the introduction of its RadioPro kits, Pacific Audio Corp. (PAC) began combining its steering wheel interface kits with its radio replacement kits to form a single SKU. The latest
Read More »PAC Intro’s All-in-1 Radio Kit to Retain OnStar
It usually requires several car kits to retain OnStar when installing an aftermarket radio in some General Motors cars. So Pacific Accessory Corp. (PAC) developed a kit that combines all the necessary modules in
Read More »New OnStar Exec Is From Dell
General Motors has appointed a new OnStar leader–Mary Chan, formerly of Dell. Chan’s new title at GM is VP of Global Connected Consumer, which is a new post. She will oversee Onstar’s business operations
Read More »Emerging Car Technology Tested by CR
A new car safety technology that could be an important future aftermarket car AV product has been tested by Consumer Reports, which gave it a thumbs up. The technology, in both aftermarket and OEM
Read More »GM Shows Future Rear Seat Entertainment
In case you weren’t sufficiently impressed by the head up displays from Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Pioneer and Kenwood at CES last week, GM is showing a “tablet like” display for the back seat windows. Kids
Read More »Aftermarket Needed for Next Car Tech Wave
It turns out that the car stereo aftermarket will be in high demand as a way to deploy the next generation in car communications—vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communications. At the CES show last week,
Read More »GM Shows Portable Safety System
General Motors is demonstrating this week a new portable vehicle-to-vehicle communication system that could be sold much like an aftermarket portable GPS system. And it could prevent 81 percent of crashes in the U.S.,
Read More »OnStar Joins MESA Buying Group
The $100+ million car stereo buying/marketing group, MESA, can technically boast that General Motors is a partner. GM’s OnStar subsidiary has joined the group as a vendor partner, as OnStar prepares to launch its
Read More »OnStar’s Retail Mirror Gets Media Attention
It’s not like car stereo companies have the ad budgets of the Frito-Lay Company, so when you’ve got a 12-volt product like the OnStar retail mirror, appearing on Celebrity Apprentice as it did Sunday
Read More »OnStar to Sell 230K Retail Mirrors
An iSuppli analyst is forecasting that OnStar will sell around 230,000 units of its upcoming $299 retail mirror in calendar 2011 and then work its way up to 1 million units a year. Long
Read More »GM Unveils Answer to Ford Sync
First, GM announced the OnStar retail mirror this year and now it is getting sexy on the radio side with the Chevy MyLink to appear initially on the Chevy Volt and Equinox this fall.
Read More »OnStar Improves Voice Recognition
General Motors’ OnStar is improving its voice recognition by adding natural speech recognition in 2011 Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac models. Users can now give conversational commands like, “I need to make a phone
Read More »OnStar Gets New President
Linda Marshall has been appointed the new president of GM’s OnStar, replacing Chris Preuss effective February 1. Marshall only recently joined OnStar (in November) as exec director of its global business strategy and business
Read More »CES: OnStar’s $299 Retail Mirror Due Spring
OnStar officially announced a retail rear view mirror packed with OnStar features to be sold through Best Buy this spring and other retailers (including car electronics specialists). Here in Las Vegas, the company pulled
Read More »New Vehicle Sales Keep Climbing
November was another strong month for U.S. car and light truck sales, which jumped 17 percent over last year, signaling the nation’s economy continues to slowly improve. Automotive News reports that November was the
Read More »GM Radios Unlocked for iPod Out, Video
Coastal Electronic Technologies is offering a car module that can unlock a General Motors’ radio screen to work with both audio and video from an iPhone, iPad, iPod and many other devices. It can
Read More »Pandora Courts Aftermarket Radio Makers
Update: It appears Alpine got a little over-exuberant during the Pandora keynote yesterday, and exagerrated a bit. It had said Tuesday that it will offer Pandora radio control in ALL of its 2011 lineup,
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