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.

Blinder Updates M27 Jammer

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Blinder USA said its M27 laser jammer has been improved with a new software update that users can...

Walmart Shrinks Electronics Depts.

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Walmart is reducing the size of its electronics departments, but not the number of products it carries, said...

HK Founder Sidney Harman Passes

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Sidney Harman, a co-founder of Harman Kardon and a pioneer in the HiFi audio and car audio industry...

Diamond Audio Parent Supplies West Coast Customs

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Domestic Investment Group LLC (DIG), owner of  Diamond Audio, Cerwin Vega Mobile and other car audio brands, is...

Directed Ships Viper SmartStart GPS

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Directed Electronics just began shipping the Viper GPS tracking system that tracks your car via a smartphone app....

Update: Best Buy and WCC

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Best Buy will sell a wider assortment of West Coast Custom car audio products than we originally reported....

Ward’s: 10 Cars with Best Interiors

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By Bill Damsky Ward’s just published its “10 Best Interiors List” for 2011. The audio or navigation system...

Boss Audio Hires Bill Brossard

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Boss Audio appointed Bill Brossard as national sales executive effective immediately. Brossard was previously VP sales for Dual...

Best Buy to Carry West Coast Customs Car Audio

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Best Buy has partnered with the West Coast Customs shop famous for its “Pimp My Ride” show. First,...

Autotek ATX line on Backorder

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Autotek (Maxxsonics) said its new entry level ATX line of amplifiers is backordered due to better- than-expected sales.   ...

Marine Audio Forecast: Up over 5%

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Marine audio sales are generally expected to be up about 5 to 7 percent at retail this year,...

Planet Audio Hires Tom Caronia

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Planet Audio has hired industry veteran Tom Caronia as national sales executive, effective immediately. Caronia was a VP...

Alpine Launches Shopatron Program

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Alpine has joined up with Shopatron to let consumers buy products directly from its Web site, but the...

Clarion Training Tour

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Clarion announced its training schedule for new car audio products to be held in 21 states through June....

Mobile DTV to Reach 2/3rds of US Homes in 12 Months

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As Mobile DTV inches toward a broad  launch, its promoters announced that the digital TV service for portables...

New Mono Amp from Phoenix Gold

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Phoenix Gold (Aamp of America) is adding a new car amplifier to its SD-Series of digital amps. The...

iSimple Ships Mazda iPod Kit

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iSimple (Aamp of America) is shipping a new kit for adding an iPod or iPhone to late model...

Microsoft, Toyota Create Cloud Cars

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Microsoft and Toyota will develop a cloud-based in-car entertainment system for Toyota vehicles that will handle navigation and...

New Scosche Toyota Kits

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Scosche is delivering radio kits for the Toyota 4-Runner and 2011 Sienna. The kits allow both single and...

Pandora: Aftermarket Yes; OEM, Not so Much

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Pandora in the car may prove to be a bigger hit in the aftermarket than in new cars...