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.

Can AT&T Help Palm?

Palm’s “Pre Plus” and “Pixi Plus” smartphones will start selling through AT&T (joining Verizon and Sprint), but will...

A Quarter of Phones to have WiFi in 2012

Wi-Fi continues to infiltrate not just smartphones, but feature cellphones, as hotspots proliferate in the home and office....

MESA Selects Concept for Video

The Mobile Electronics Specialists of America (MESA)— the buying group expected to represent a $1/2 billion in car...

Nintendo Pushes DS for Schools

Nintendo seems to be going academic. We already saw the first eBook in the U.S. announced for the...

SBN Sets “Trade Only” Day

Next year’s Spring Break Nationals in Daytona Beach, FLA will include a "trade only day" on Monday, March...

Amazon’s Kindle for Mac

Amazon continues to expand its Kindle eBookstore’s reach beyond the Kindle eReader, announcing today eReading software for the...

Nook is Best-Selling Product at B&N

The Barnes & Noble nook eReader has become the best-selling product at Barnes & Noble since it launched...

Garmin Moves To Switzerland

Garmin said it will move its place of incorporation from the Cayman Islands to Switzerland, pending approval by...

B&N Names Lynch CEO

In a sign of the growing importance of e-commerce, Barnes & Noble rearranged its executives making the head...

B&N Nook Gets Exclusive Content

Barnes & Noble is offering special eBooks and prices exclusively for its nook eReader customers. When the B&N...

Mobile DTV Seems to Clear FCC

In case you are wondering if Mobile DTV—free over-the-air-live-TV to portables and car TV-- is still alive, the...

Navigon iPhone App is $25

Here’s a backdoor way that iPhone navigation just got cheaper (where it’s not already free). Navigon just launched...

Alex Ships in April at $399

The Alex eReader, heading for sale at Borders bookstores this June, is also now available for pre-order online...

iPad Pre-Orders Pass 150K

Pre-sales of the Apple iPad rolled in at an initial fast a furious rate of 120,000 units in...

The Ultimate Gadget

Check out this patent application for a “foldable tablet PC." The design is from Qualcomm and is seen...

TomTom iPhone Traffic is $20/yr

How much is real time traffic worth to you; an extra $20 per year? That’s what TomTom is...

QUE Delayed Til Summer

Plastic Logic delayed the release of its business-aimed eReader, the QUE, which is due to be sold through...

New JL Audio Stealthbox

JL Audio released its latest Stealthbox car-specific subwoofer system, with a $949 model for the Nissan 370Z coupe....

MESA Adds More Vendors

Mobile Electronics Specialists of America (MESA) named its five accessory vendor partners and said it will announce its...

Kenwood Car Decks to Read Email

Finally, it looks like aftermarket suppliers are waking up to the new reality that people want more from...