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.

Mitsubishi First Automaker with HD Traffic

Columbia, Maryland – iBiquity Digital Corporation, the developer of digital HD Radio Technology for AM and FM audio...

Amazon
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Senate May Vote This Month on Online Sales Tax

If you shop online, your bill may get a bit higher. The U.S. Senate may vote on a...

MTX Road Thunder eXtreme
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MTX Lets Go of Reps for 2013

MTX has terminated many if not all of its manufacturer representatives for 2013, according numerous sources including reps,...

2013 Bentley car office
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Another Niche for Car Audio Specialists

For car audio specialists, custom car and truck  “offices” might be a business niche worth pursuing.  The car...

Nuance Dragon Drive!
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3 Years Till In-Car Voice Really Rocks

Voice recognition at its best in a car today is about 90 percent accurate.  The goal of the...

Shop Small
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Small Business Saturday Worked–Get Involved!

Here’s a statistic for you: over 90 percent of small businesses say that Black Friday has little or...

Sound of Tri-State
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Car Audio Black Friday Wrap Up

Once again retailers in the Mobile Electronics Specialists of America (MESA) buying group reported solid Black Friday weekend...

Toyota Smart Insect Engadget
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Toyota Serious About Gesture Control of Radio

Toyota announced at the LA Auto Show that it is developing gesture control for the car radio. Toyota...

Allen Gharapetian
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Clarion Gets New Head of Marketing, Product Planning

Clarion has appointed Allen Gharapetian as Vice President of Marketing in charge of OEM & Retail Marketing and...

Chevy MirrorLink
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Siri Comes to Chevy Sonic and Spark EV

Chevrolet announced it will offer Siri “Eyes Free” voice control technology in the 2013  Sonic and electric Spark...

Sound Storm
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Sound Storm Intro’s New In-Dash AV

Sound Storm Laboratories (SSL), a sister company to Boss Audio, has introduced 4 new in-dash AV/radios at budget...

Brandmotion Infinity
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Brandmotion Supplies Tint World

Brandmotion said it is now offering its car electronics products and accessories through the Tint World retail chain,...

Alpine Bill Whitehouse
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Alpine Veteran Passes

Alpine Electronics announced the untimely passing of its long time sales rep Bill Whitehouse, who had served as...

NRF Revised Forecast
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Black Friday Beginning to Backfire for Retailers

By some accounts, it was a record Thanksgiving weekend this holiday, with sales up 13 percent over last...

Apple logo
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Cheaper iPhone Due From Apple

Apple will deliver a lower cost iPhone in 2014, according to a leading analyst, Gene Munster at Piper...

Walmart Black Friday 2012
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Walmart Sets Records at Black Friday Events

After attracting 22 million shoppers on Thanksgiving day, Walmart drew record crowds to some of its Black Friday...

Mobile One
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A Car Audio Thanksgiving Story

Just about every small business goes through hard times. Retailers in the Northeast struck by Hurricane Sandy had...

CEA
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Holiday Spending To Gain, But Fiscal Cliff Takes Toll: CEA

The looming “fiscal cliff,” in which a failure of Congress to act will trigger automatic tax increases, is...

Best Buy
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Best Buy in for Rough Holiday: WSJ

After Best Buy reported a loss of $10 million for its recent quarter on Tuesday, The Wall Street...

Kenwood
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Kenwood to Intro WiFi Car Deck at CES

Kenwood will introduce at CES in January, one of the industry’s first in-dash navigation/radios with a WiFi connection...