Amy Gilroy

Amy Gilroy

Amy has been reporting on the consumer electronics industry since cellphones and compact disc players were first introduced. She's worked for numerous industry publications and was a senior editor at This Week in Consumer Electronics (TWICE) magazine for 15 years.
soundman tablet
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CarPlay Crushes Tablet Installs

One of the side effects of the rise of CarPlay is that tablet installations in the dashboard have...

Audison laptop
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Audison Offers Dealer Giveway for Bit Processors

Audison is offering dealers a free Acer laptop pre-loaded with all necessary software to program Audison bit processors...

Rydeen logo
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Rydeen Bundles Wireless Cameras For Specific Trucks

Rydeen is creating truck specific wireless camera bundles by offering its wireless camera receiver system with latch cameras...

Precision Power Black Ice amplifiers for car
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Precision Power Ships New Black Ice Amplifiers

Precision Power is shipping new 2016 Black Ice amplifiers. The amplifiers offer "over compensated high headroom power supplies"...

Viv's Dag Kittlaus
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New Car Audio Interface Makes Siri Look Dumb

A new super intelligent assistant that could work with any device, including in-car devices, is being launched by...

Whistler-CR93
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Whistler Intros It’s First Bilingual Radar Detectors

The Whistler Group, Inc. said it will introduce bilingual alerts in its 2016 product line that ships in...

Scosche-BMW-kit
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Scosche Ships BMW Dash Kit

Scosche announced a new radio replacement kit for the BMW 3 series. The double DIN kit allows the...

Cadence-ATS2.69
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Cadence Ships Its First Bluetooth Powersports Speakers

Cadence announced it is shipping its first powersports Bluetooth speakers. The 6.5-inch speaker (ATS2.65BT) and 6x9-inch speaker (ATS2.69BT)...

Echomaster IntellHaul
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AAMP Intros Truck-Specific Drive Assist Camera System

EchoMaster, an AAMP Global company, announced one of the first blind spot monitoring systems designed for a specific...

K40 flier
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K40 Exhibits at PNWCEE

Radar detector maker K40 announced it will exhibit at the Pacific Northwest Consumer Electronics Expo (PNWCEE) Tuesday. The...

Alpine-i109-WRA
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Alpine Ships Largest CarPlay Radio

Alpine Electronics of America is now shipping a CarPlay radio with a 9-inch screen that works specifically with...

Rydeen demo van
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Rydeen, Escort Exhibit at PNWCEE Show

Rydeen Mobile Electronics, Escort and Cobra Electronics will exhibit at the 4th Annual Pacific Northwest Consumer Electronics Expo...

billboard text and drive
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Photo: Text and Drive Billboard

This billboard in Toronto, Canada is a fake ad for funeral home. It's really an anti-texting-while-driving public service...

Pioneer booth at CES
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Pioneer Reveals Plans for Car-Specific Radios

Pioneer released a roadmap for its future products today, which said it will develop consumer car radios that...

Mobile-Electronics-Group
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ME Magazine Announces Top 50 Retailers; Installers

Mobile Electronics magazine today announced the Top 50 Retailers, and the Top 50 Installers of the year. The...

Boss Lightning automotive lighting
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Boss Audio Enters Light Bars

Boss Audio says it will enter the powersports lighting segment late this year or early next year. The...

Atrend speaker pods
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Atrend Enters UTV Speaker Pods

Atrend announced it entered the powersports speaker pod market. It supplies two fully-loaded universal pods that include OZ...

Apple's CarPlay
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Apple Wrecks 12 Volt Shipping Timelines

One reason CarPlay works so well is Apple's strict certification process, but that process is also wreaking havoc...

Kenwood
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Kenwood Launched 2016 Dealer Rewards Program

Kenwood USA launched its annual eXcelon X Rewards promotion May 1. The program runs to July 30 and...

Harry Lichtman with Draeger Interlocks
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A Personal Story Installing Interlocks

Seventeen years ago, Harry Lichtman of Depot Auto Sound, NY started providing ignition interlock devices because it seemed...