First Headrests With US-Made “Tablets” Ship Next Week
A $1,500 dual “tablet” back seat video system will ship next Tuesday by SmartLogic by Vizualogic. It offers...
Alpine Sales Up, Profits Down
Alpine posted an 8.5 percent increase in sales, reaching the U.S. equivalent of $1.69 billion for the nine...
Bose Offers New Low Energy Car Sound System
Nissan announced it will offer a new energy efficient version of Bose car audio systems on the Nissan...
Samsung Galaxy S IV to Launch March 15: Report
Update: (Samsung is now expected to debut the S IV on March 14 and has issued invitations for...
Over One Million Remote Starters Sell a Year
A rough estimate of one million remote starters sell annually to consumers, according to Audiovox Electronics. Another supplier...
SiriusXM Releases MySXM Personalized Music Beta
SiriusXM is now showing its Personalized Music service in beta on SiriusXM.com. Called MySXM (and sometimes MyControl), it...
Update on Harman’s Aftermarket Retail Plans
We heard from Harman’s CEO last week, touting a new retrofit program to update older factory radios at...
Kinetik Brand Purchased by Universal Power Group
The Kinetik brand of high end power cells for car audio has been purchased by Universal Power Group...
Blaupunkt Updates Car Radios
Blaupunkt has updated two of its car radios with a new version of its New York DVD/navigation receiver...
Harman Announces “Aftermarket” Factory Radio Upgrades
Harman said it will offer upgrade radio services for its 15 million OEM radios currently in cars on...
Aamp to Launch Major Car Audio TV Campaign
In the car electronics aftermarket, where big TV ad campaigns are sparse, Aamp is bucking the trend and...
New BlackBerry Phones Include Some Knock-Out Features
Some industry watchers believe the new BlackBerry devices introduced Wednesday just might help Research in Motion, now officially...
Cook Challenges Car Makers to Work With Aftermarket
At the Connect2Car seminar at CES, Chris Cook, President of the Mobile Electronics Retailers Assn. (MERA) called on...
It’s Do or Die for BlackBerry Today
Two new BlackBerry smartphones using the long awaited, all new BlackBerry 10 platform will be introduced Wednesday by...
Apple’s New Top iPad Due February 5
As rumored, Apple announced a new flagship 4th generation iPad tablet, with 128GB of storage, double that of...
Boss, Sound Storm Intro New Navigation Decks
Boss Audio introduced its first single DIN car DVD/receiver with built-in navigation. The model BV9969NV includes Bluetooth, iPod/iPhone...
A First For In-Car DSP from AudioControl
AudioControl introduced at CES this month, one of the first in-car digital signal processors to work with an...
NAV-TV Unlocks Camera for Ford Raptor
NAV-TV announced a new kit for the Ford F150 Raptor pickup truck that allows the driver to view...
What Does Ford Think of the Aftermarket?
David McNamara was Infotainment Manager at Ford until 2006. He was also a panelist at CES for the seminar...
First Mercedes Radio Replacement Module Debuts for MOST
NAV-TV is offering the world's first radio replacement module to work with many Mercedes-Benz vehicles on the M.O.S.T...