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.

iPhone 5 May be Delayed

Apple may delay until August or September, the launch of its next iPhone, as the company’s iconic product...

Kicker Offers iKick100

Kicker’s mini sized iPod/iPhone speaker dock, the iKick100 is now available to retailers. The brick-sized dock for amplifying...

German Maestro Ships 5 Series Subs

German Maestro is now shipping its 5 Series W.10 and W.12 subwoofers at $529.99 and $549.99 suggested retail...

April is Car Care Month; Cash in

April is national Car Care Month when many car repair shops hold free clinics in their parking lot...

TomTom’s SuperSlim PNDs Ship

TomTom is now shipping the super slim VIA portable navigation devices it previewed at the Consumer Electronics Show...

New Boston Sub Enclosures

Boston Acoustics announced 5 new GTuned subwoofer enclosures that are loaded with Boston woofers. The subwoofer enclosures ship...

NAV-TV Offers Back Up Cam for Volvo

NAV-TV will offer next week the first aftermarket back-up camera for some 2011 Volvo models, it said. It’s...

Auto Sales May Drop in March

Auto sales may fall for the first time in 7 months this March due to higher gas prices...

Another Suit Against Sirius XM

Earlier this month, Howard Stern sued Sirius XM, and now a U.S. district judge ruled that that the...

Smartphone Shipments to Grow 50%

The smartphone market will grow by almost 50 percent worldwide this year, which is four times faster than...

Ford Sync: 94% Take Rate in Explorer

We stumbled on an Edmunds blog from last month that mentioned that 94 percent of buyers of the...

Long Lines Persist for iPad 2

The iPad 2 is still attracting such long lines at stores as shipments trickle in that analyst Charlie...

Petra Car Audio Show in May

Petra Industries said it will hold its annual Car Audio Expo on May 1 at its headquarters in...

Car Audio up Jan/Feb: NPD

Here's more positive news in car electronics for 2011. The NPD Group provided us data on car electronics...

Kenwood Ships 2 Pandora Nav/Radios

Kenwood is now shipping two of its 2011 navigation/radios with Pandora control under its Excelon line. The DNX9980HD...

Apple to Reveal Next Gen iOS in June

Well, the headline says it all. Apple announced today that it will unveil the future iOS for the...

Taxing Cars by Miles Driven

Congress is looking into taxing drivers by the number of miles they drive their cars, now that technology...

Hawaii Wants 12V Dealers to Educate

Corrected! The Hawaii legislature has introduced a bill resolution that would require aftermarket car audio retailers to educate...

Tablet Update: Samsung, Asus & Others

It's entirely possible that by next year, many of us will be connecting tablets to our car radios,...

Best Buy Gets HTC Tablet First

HTC officially entered the U.S. tablet market this week with Best Buy to be first out of the...