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.

Chip Shortages Continue to Delay Smartphones

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The smartphone is not recession-proof, it turns out and its not because there’s any drop in the insatiable...

Consumers Want Tablets; And Maybe Not Just the iPad

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A lot of online Americans, about 27 million, are planning to buy a tablet PC in the next...

New JBL Amps for October

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JBL will ship two new car DSP amplifiers with an on-board, menu-driven digital signal processing menu designed to...

Harman: Best Buy, MS-8 Backorder

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Although Infinity Car Audio was generally removed from Best Buy shelves this spring, it is still in 200...

LG Plans Android Tablet, 10 New Smartphones

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LG Electronics is planning an Android tablet for Q4 under its Optimus line. The tablet will focus on...

Geek Squad Offers eReader Set Up

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In case you missed it, Best Buy’s Geek Squad began offering this month an eReader set up service...

JVC Kenwood Will License its Brand

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JVC Kenwood Holdings Inc, the company resulting from the merger of JVC and Kenwood late in 2008, is...

Best Buy Expands Expeditor Trial to Minn.

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We told you in April that Best Buy partnered with Car Toy of Seattle, WA to test market...

Google Gingerbread Tablet by Motorola Reported

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Some of the first reports of Android 3.0 (Gingerbread) tablets due in Q1 2011 are issuing from Taiwan...

2nd Pandigital Color eReader Heads for Retailers

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Pandigital, the digital photo frame maker, is offering its second 7-inch color eReader/tablet in its Novel series. The...

Black Friday Tablet Rumored from HTC; Toshiba Tablet for September

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Toshiba and HTC are rumored to be readying tablets with HTC preparing a Chrome OS model that will...

AudioControl Readies 2 New Processors

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AudioControl is readying 2 new processors for this summer/fall including a simplified OEM processor for around $100. Also...

JBL, Infinity Become PRO Group Car Audio Suppliers

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Harman International’s car audio brands JBL and Infinity have partnered with the PRO Group AV buying group. JBL...

Froyo iPad Rival Due from Stream TV

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New consumer electronics supplier Stream TV Networks will launch a 7-inch tablet, which it calls an iPad rival,...

Is New BlackBerry Torch in Trouble?

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It was supposed to be the phone that put Research in Motion (RIM) back on the map with...

New Nook eReader Apps

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Barnes & Noble updated its eReader apps and has switched most of them the Nook brand rather than...

Windows Phone 7 Gets Games

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Microsoft announced a full slate of gaming titles for Windows Phone 7 (due in phones by Christmas). Guitar...

Analyst Expects All-in-1 Apple TV

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Few expect Apple will sit back and cede the TV market to rivals. Especially analyst Gene Munster of...

7″ iPad 2 Due Soon Says 2 Taiwan Journals

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A 7-inch iPad 2 is already on the assembly line and may be here by Christmas or in...

FLO TV May Get New Pricing; Here for Long Run

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More Audiovox news here... The company strongly defended the longevity of its FLO TV product and said it...