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.

TomTom: US PNDs to Fall in 2011

TomTom offered more insight into the challenging portable GPS market Thursday admitting that industry-wide U.S.  sales could start...

Tablet Wars Heat Up

With Apple’s iPad starting to rollout next month, more information is leaking on competitive tablets from Hewlett-Packard and...

Kindle for BlackBerry

BlackBerry users can now read eBooks from Amazon.com on their smartphone, as the eBookseller launched today its "Kindle...

Apple May Offer $9.99 eBooks Joining Amazon

Apple’s plans to sell eBooks at higher prices than Amazon, in a much welcomed stroke for publishers, may...

TomTom Ups GPS Share to 30%

TomTom reported it swung back to profitability in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2009, claiming it saw...

Audi Shows 3G Car

More proof that our cars will soon be wireless hotspots, came from Audi this week, which will deliver...

Free TbT Navi on Win Phone 7?

Since turn-by-turn navigation is rapidly becoming a free give away on smartphones from Google and Nokia, will Microsoft...

Rockford Moves into Portable Audio

In case you missed Rockford Fosgate’s 2010 product unveiling at the Consumer Electronics Show, the company is venturing...

T-Mobile eReader/Phone Due in Spring

Reminding us that smartphones are eReaders too, T-Mobile unveiled a phone with a larger, 4.3-inch screen and a...

Nokia, Intel Join Up in Smartphones

Nokia and Intel joined forces at Mobile World Congress this week to create yet another smartphone platform. Called...

More GPS for Smartphones

Two more signs that navigation is becoming an every-day feature on leading smartphones were seen at Mobile World...

Samsung Unveils Wave Smartphone

Samsung showed off its first smartphone—the Wave-- to use its new Bada OS that is designed to boost...

Microsoft Launches Windows Phone 7 Series

Microsoft made a convincing bid to reinvent itself in the smartphone space as it unveiled the Windows Phone...

WiFi Bus Calms the Savage Teen

Autonet Mobile gets a plug on the New York Times coverage of a school bus with WiFi in...

IREX eReader at Best Buy

Remember the IREX wireless 3G eReader shown last September (before the Nook, iPad, and Blio turned the eReader...

PND Sales to Hit Wall at 48M by 2015

Another research firm says portable GPS sales are going to flatten over the next five years. ABI Research...

Car Toys Adjusts Course

It’s rare that Dan Brettler, chairman/CEO of Seattle-based Car Toys, gives an interview, but it turns out, he’s...

IBM Supports the Apple iPad

It seems IBM likes the iPad and wants to turn it into a business tool through IBM apps....

Garmin Finally Shows Android Nuvifone

Garmin is expanding its GPS/smartphone line, announcing features on its first Android-based nuvifone promised a year ago. The...

MyerEmco To Close All Stores

MyerEmco AudioVideo, the family-owned consumer electronics chain of 55 years, will close its doors within the next 60...