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.

Internet is 20 to 30% of Car AV Market

The Internet now represents about 20 to 30 percent of the car electronics aftermarket as a ballpark estimate,...

HushMat Shows Black Acoustic Matting

HushMat launched a new sound dampening/thermal matting-- the first to come in black so installers don’t need to...

Directus Ships Prodigy One Navi for Cadillac

Directus began shipping last week a new Prodigy One kit that adds navigation to a factory Cadillac CTS...

Top 10 Takeaways from KnowledgeFest

The KnowledgeFest show in Dallas last week generated plenty of marketing and sales advice for retailers. Here are...

Car Toys to Help Best Buy Reinvent Car AV

Best Buy is partnering with 49-store chain Car Toys, based in Seattle to “reinvent our service model from...

Sony’s Tablets Too High Priced?

Sony finally announced pricing and began preorders on its pair of tablets at $499 and $599, but reviewers...

JBL’s “Got Milk Style” Ads Include 12V

Audio, including car audio, is finally getting a mega TV, radio, print and online campaign. JBL is launching...

Alpine Opens “Cloud” Car Tech Research Arm

Alpine Electronics Research of America announced it will open a new research center in the U.S. to study...

Shopping for Car Electronics More Popular Online than at Car Stereo Shops

Knowledge is power, so we’re giving it to you straight. A presentation at KnowledgeFest on Tuesday by the...

CEA Forecast on In-Car Internet Radio

In-Car Internet Radio will represent 10 percent of aftermarket deck sales (U.S. wholesale units) by 2013, up from...

Audiovox Updates Toyota OE Replacement Deck

Audiovox upgraded its Advent factory replacement radio for the Toyota Camry to include Parrot Bluetooth and a rear...

MERA Offers Training from Marketing Guru

If you saw Jim Ackerman lead a seminar at KnowledgeFest, you know this father of 9 children has...

Scosche Intro’s Car Anti-Texting Device

Scosche previewed at KnowledgeFest an anti-texting dongle, which plugs into an OBD-II port to block your ability to...

Alpine Raises Prices on Subwoofers

Alpine Electronics will raise prices on some subwoofers by up to 25 percent, effective October 1, as the...

New Firstech Remote Start Lines

Firstech, parent of the CompuStar brand, announced a new line of remote starters for the car electronics expeditor...

Rockford Ships Prime Car Amps

Rockford Fosgate is shipping new Prime car audio amplifiers including four FRD models in full range and mono...

TomTom to Ship First PND with Apps

Apps are a driving force behind our love affair with smartphones, so why not include them on a...

MTX Launches Its First Pro Line

MTX Audio is launching its first line of Pro car audio  speakers and introducing new shallow mount subwoofers...

TM6 MOST Preamp from NAV-TV

NAV-TV  introduced at KnowledgeFest a new MOST preamp that let you add an aftermarket speaker and amplifier system...

CompuStar Seeking Rep Firms

CompuStar (Firstech) is seeking manufacturer's rep firms in the Texas and Florida markets to represent brands including CompuStar,...