Industry news

Pioneer, DICE Deliver Siri Control This Month

By the end of the month, at least two brands of aftermarket products will allow you to press...

Al & Ed’s Adds 20th Store

Al & Ed’s Autosound opened a new franchise location—the first in its recent expansion effort to grow the...

MERA: Membership Passes 1,000; Announces 2013 KnowledgeFest Location

MERA, the Mobile Electronics Retailers Association, announced its membership has exceeded 1,000. In addition, the industry group said...

CEA to 12 Volters: Second Half May be Better

Consumers are expected to follow the same path in spending they took last year, opening up their wallets...

Atrend Partners with Tint World

Atrend announced it is now providing speaker enclosures for the Tint World car audio and window tinting chain....

Memphis Intro’s Bluetooth/Mini Amp

Memphis Car Audio will ship this October a mini amp and Bluetooth controller that can replace a head...

Clarion adds Facebook, Twitter to Next GATE

Clarion announced it created its own Facebook and Twitter apps to work with its Next GATE car audio...

Best Buy Profits Plunge 91% as Woes Continue

Best Buy woes continued during Q2 as profits fell 91 percent and same store sales declined slightly. The...

MERA Selects Safeware as Extended Service Plan Provider

MERA, the Mobile Electronics Retailers Association, and sponsor of KnowledgeFest, said it has endorced Safeware  exclusively as an...

Sonic Electronix Nexus 7 Install with Bit One Gets 100K Views

Sonic Electronix’ recent YouTube video showing a Nexus 7 (Google Tablet) installed in a Dodge RAM has received...

The Average MERA Car Audio Dealers Sells $276K of Product

The average MERA car audio dealer sells $276,000 a year in car audio products (excluding labor), according to...

Industry Award Winners Announced by Mobile Electronics Magazine

Mobile Electronics Magazine announced its 2012 Industry Award Winners for car audio at KnowledgeFest on Sunday. The top...

Scosche Debuts Car Radio at KnowledgeFest

Accessory supplier Scosche showed its first aftermarket car CD/radio (at least its first in recent years) at KnowledgeFest...

Obama Girl May Lead Car Audio Effort

Remember the Obama Girl back in 2008 who became a brief media sensation?  Her video singing Obama’s praises...

Rosen Teams with Scosche on Retail OE-Look Radios

Rosen Electronics is showing at KnowledgeFest this week, its first line of factory look-a-like radios designed specifically for...

Audiovox to Ship New Slim Headrests, OE Fit Radios

Audiovox Electronics announced at KnowledgeFest that it will deliver within 45 days a new, sleeker headrest/monitor system for...

KnowledgeFest Exceeds 1,000 Pre-Registrations

KnowledgeFest opened this weekend in Grapevine, Texas with more than 1,000 pre-registered attendees, up by over 50 percent...

Pioneer To Ship 2013 Single CD/Radios This Month

Pioneer announced at KnowledgeFest it will ship a line of six single CD/receivers for 2013 at the end...

Harman Ships New Infinity Kappa Speakers

Harman is shipping an all-new line of Infinity Kappa speakers for the first time in several years. On...

Free Business Tracking Software from AVIDWORX

AVIDWORX  announced at KnowledgeFest the release of DASHWORX—free web tracking of your business. Retailers can track the number...