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.

Garmin Beats Expectations, Will Push Fitness

Garmin fared better than expected in its results for the fourth quarter ended December 26, 2009, with revenue...

Intel Huron River Notebook Platform in 2011

Intel is expected to announce early next year a new Huron River notebook platform preceded by new desktop...

Smartbooks to Hit 163M in 2015

As shown in Apple’s iPad, new devices that sandwich themselves between a smartphone and a netbook are on...

Traffic’s Getting Worse (Again)

Here’s a selling point for car electronics and GPS devices: the typical commuter with a 30-minute ride to...

Walmart Buys VUDU

In a signal that ordinary TV-watching is now a thing of the past, and Internet-connected TVs will soon...

B&N Ups Nook Supply

Barnes & Noble said sales of its nook eReader have been surprisingly strong, leading the bookseller to ramp...

New TomTom iPhone Dash Kit

Love your turn-by-turn navi, but hate having your windshield blocked? There’s a new stick-to-the-dash TomTom kit for the...

Alpine, Directed Join MESA

MESA, Mobile Electronics Specialists of America, the member-owned car electronics buying & marketing group, announced its key supplier...

First 4G WiMax Phone Due By June

Sprint will launch the first 4G WiMax mobile phone during the first half of this year, creating a...

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...