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.

ICE Reaches 5,000 Live Chats

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On Christmas Eve at 2:43pm, the ICE in-house live chat staff handled its 5,000th live chat session.  The...

Concept Expands Chameleon to Overhead Video

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Concept is expanding its “chameleon” system that lets you choose the textile covers for your headrest/video monitor and...

Concept Announces New VP Sales & Marketing

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Concept Enterprises announced the appointment of Neil Carande as its new Vice President of Sales & Marketing. Carande...

Car Audio Christmas Hit by Warm Weather

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Christmas was strong for many leading car stereo specialists, although some suffered due to the warm weather that...

Best Buy Blunders, Fails to Ship Christmas Orders

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Best Buy blundered late in the holiday season, notifying some customers that orders they placed weeks prior would...

Chris Parvin Joins Maxxsonics

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Chris Parvin, a 17-year veteran of Rockford Corp. has joined Maxxsonics as Director of Marketing. With the appointment,...

Car Audio Retailers Can Sell Wireless with iVi

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iVi  Wireless/InVehicle Intelligence wants to help car stereo retailers sell cellular/wireless service so they may offer customers wireless...

Happy Holidays from CEoutlook

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We wish all our readers a very Happy Holiday and a successful, happy, healthy 2012!

Rockford Enters Pro Audio for the Car

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Rockford is introducing its first Punch car audio tweeters and midrange speakers designed for the Pro Audio market...

New Car Audio Head Unit Start-Up: Alpha-Nav

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A new car audio start up called Alpha-Nav based in Fremont, CA is launching two in-dash navigation radios...

OnStar Announcements Due at CES

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OnStar said it will issue some announcements about its retail FMV mirror just prior to the Consumer Electronics...

MERA to Launch Awareness Campaign

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MERA (Mobile Electronics Retailers Association) will launch an awareness campaign early next year to promote its “Pocket or...

Cellphone Bans Don’t Help Distracted Driving

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A ban on cellphone use in the car, even while using a handsfree kit, was recommended by a...

New Nexus on Verizon Gets Rave Reviews

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“This is easily the best smartphone to ever hit Verizon Wireless,” said the Boy Genius Report (BGR) Wednesday...

Alpine Electronics Announces New Sales Reps

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Alpine Electronics of America announced new sales reps and also presented an achievement award to outstanding reps for...

NAV-TV Issues Update for Chrysler Camera/Navi

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Chrysler has been busy issuing several technical service bulletins for its Uconnect car radio system, so NAV-TV has...

Car Audio “Mini” Show During CES

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Five car audio suppliers including Atrend, HushMat, Avidworx, Audiomobile, and Zapco  will exhibit collectively during the CES show...

Aha Reports Deals with 5 Auto Makers at CES

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Corrected.  We already expected to see more of Harman's  Aha in-car car-app system in aftermarket radios at CES...

Spirit Focuses on its Own Car Audio Brand

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Updated: Spirit LLC, a Dania, Florida based exporter of leading brands, is launching its own line of car...

To Get the New MyFord Touch Right, Ford Tests it on 1000 Employees

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Before Ford sends out an upgrade for the MyFord Touch to its current customers, it will issue USB...