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Ford Drops Price of Sync by $100
The Ford Sync, installed on over 3 million vehicles since it launched in 2007, is now available as...
Mercedes-Benz Shows 3D Car Screen
3D may not be selling like gangbusters on a Nintendo DS but Mercedes Benz expects to offer 3D...
Toyota Demos Heart Monitoring Steering Wheel
In May Ford showed off a car seat that can monitor your heart activity and last week Toyota...
How Popular is Internet Radio in Car Radios?
Just how popular are car radios that can control Pandora or Internet Radio? It’s a bit early to...
Samsung May Outshine Apple in Smartphone Sales
Watch out Apple. Samsung sales of smartphones may have outpaced or matched those of Apple for the first...
TomTom Reports “Steep” Decline in U.S. PND Market
TomTom reported a 23 percent decline in its consumer business, which includes portable navigation devices (PND)s as the...
Sony Phases Out Xplod on Head Units
Updated! Xplod, Sony’s sub-brand for car audio in the U.S. is gradually being relegated for use with subwoofers...
Motorcycle Audio Niche Sees Growth
Amps and speakers for motorcycle installations have become a small but growing niche in car audio. Arc Audio,...
Apple Reports Sizzling iPhone, iPad Sales for June Quarter
Apple “crushed Wall Street expectations,” said Reuters, as the world’s most valuable tech company reported another record quarter...
CEA: Car Audio Aftermarket Projections
The Consumer Electronics Association predicts that total "core" car audio aftermarket shipment revenues will fall by 8 percent...
OnStar Mirror at Best Buy July 24
Best Buy announced that its OnStar FMV retail mirror will go on sale starting July 24 at $299.99...
Crutchfield Looks to Expand House Brand Car Audio
Crutchfield may expand its 18-month-old house brand called Sound Ordnance, which has been performing well for the online/catalog...
Ford Makes Sync Simpler with Live Operators: Test Pilot
Ford began testing last week a new feature called Operator Assist that includes live operators to help drivers...
Alpine Income Climbs
Alpine Electronics of Japan posted solid gains in fiscal 2011 despite the Japanese earthquake in March, citing strong...
Grunhold Leaves Post at Auto Page
Auto Page said it accepted the resignation of veteran product engineer Oliver Grunhold. Grunhold served as VP of...
OnStar FMV Launches Regionally July 10
For some regional retailers, the OnStar FMV mirror that brings OnStar to almost all cars for the first...
Car Stereo Alert: Spotify Officially Coming to US
Now that we’ve got dozens of car radios able to control Pandora, Spotify is coming to the U.S....
Sound Advice Re-enters Car Audio
It's dejavu at Sound Advice, which was once one of the top regional consumer electronics stores in the...
O Car iPhone Radio Distributed by Aamp
Remember the O Car “iPhone car radio” shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January by Oxygen Audio?...
Cadillac to Get Killer Radio: Report
As you may remember, GM is gradually releasing radios to compete with the Ford Sync. It will begin...