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“Car Audio” Gets 3.5M Hits/Mo.on Google
The term “car audio” is searched for on Google 3.5 million times a month in the U.S. By...
Audi Gets WiFi on 2011 A8
Audi is set to become the first car company to offer WiFi as a factory option, it claims,...
Sony Adds New CD-Less Decks
Sony is adding two new CD-less head units that forgo the CD player in favor of connecting an...
Car AV Sales Rise in April by 1%
UPDATE! The good folks at the NPD Group revised the total car audio numbers given us to uniformly...
Pandora Car Radio Sell Through: 1st Look
As best we can tell, Pandora radios, the head units from Alpine and Pioneer, that let users listen...
OnStar Teams with Google; New Smartphone/Radios from Harman
As we said before, the car companies are getting VERY serious about smartphone apps. True to an earlier...
Mobile DTV Gets 12V Launch from NAV-TV
Free TV in the car with a crisp, clear image, even at 85 mph, is inching closer to...
Garmin Ships 295W Mini Tablet/PND
Garmin is about to ship its first WiFi nuvi portable GPS device. Similar to a mini tablet, the...
GM Plots Answer to Sync
Aftermarket (retail) car radio makers be warned. General Motors may be plotting its answer to Ford’s Sync radios....
OnStar To Enter Retail Aftermarket with a Mirror-Mounted Device: Analyst
Soon retailers will be able to sell OnStar. General Motors will make OnStar available to consumer electronics retailers...
Remote Start Apps Due from Audiovox, CompuStar
By Amy Gilroy More car electronics suppliers are jumping on the app bandwagon for remote starting your car...
Kicker Enters Best Buy This Month
By Amy Gilroy Kicker confirmed one of the worst kept 12-volt secrets—that its line of 12-volt products will...
Scosche Shows First Protoype 12V iPad Kit
Yikes! Is this the first iPad kit for the car? Scosche is showing its retailers an iPad kit...
iPad 12V Install Lures CNN, Alpine
We checked back with the iPad installer at SoundMan Car Audio in Santa Clarita, CA. whom we showed...
Garmin Bids on Raymarine
Garmin is back to trying to purchase UK-based marine electronics supplier Raymarine, reportedly for 15 pounds ($22.8) per...
JL Audio’s Shopatron Heating Up
JL Audio says its retailer program with Shopatron has been gaining steam over the past nine months, with...
FLO TV Sales: First Report
Audiovox's FLO TV for the car--the $399 tuner that delivers 20 channels of video on the road--is off...
Ford Sync Gets Voice Control for Apps
Ford is cranking out those Sync announcements and now it’s revealed the Pandora/Stitcher/Twitter-Feed voice control it showed in...
Some Specialists up by Double Digits
By Amy Gilroy Some 12-volt specialists expect stronger sales this year, as the economy rebounds. Last year, you’d...
Ford Sync Alternative for Retail
By Amy Gilroy A car aftermarket system to rival the Ford Sync is what retailers want, yes? Blitzsafe,...