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Car Audio Black Friday Wrap Up
Once again retailers in the Mobile Electronics Specialists of America (MESA) buying group reported solid Black Friday weekend...
Toyota Serious About Gesture Control of Radio
Toyota announced at the LA Auto Show that it is developing gesture control for the car radio. Toyota...
Clarion Gets New Head of Marketing, Product Planning
Clarion has appointed Allen Gharapetian as Vice President of Marketing in charge of OEM & Retail Marketing and...
Siri Comes to Chevy Sonic and Spark EV
Chevrolet announced it will offer Siri “Eyes Free” voice control technology in the 2013 Sonic and electric Spark...
Sound Storm Intro’s New In-Dash AV
Sound Storm Laboratories (SSL), a sister company to Boss Audio, has introduced 4 new in-dash AV/radios at budget...
Brandmotion Supplies Tint World
Brandmotion said it is now offering its car electronics products and accessories through the Tint World retail chain,...
MyFord Touch Gets Better Voice Control
Ford is offering a newly improved version of the MyFord Touch and Sync radio system with better voice...
Alpine Veteran Passes
Alpine Electronics announced the untimely passing of its long time sales rep Bill Whitehouse, who had served as...
Black Friday Beginning to Backfire for Retailers
By some accounts, it was a record Thanksgiving weekend this holiday, with sales up 13 percent over last...
Cheaper iPhone Due From Apple
Apple will deliver a lower cost iPhone in 2014, according to a leading analyst, Gene Munster at Piper...
Walmart Sets Records at Black Friday Events
After attracting 22 million shoppers on Thanksgiving day, Walmart drew record crowds to some of its Black Friday...
A Car Audio Thanksgiving Story
Just about every small business goes through hard times. Retailers in the Northeast struck by Hurricane Sandy had...
Holiday Spending To Gain, But Fiscal Cliff Takes Toll: CEA
The looming “fiscal cliff,” in which a failure of Congress to act will trigger automatic tax increases, is...
Best Buy in for Rough Holiday: WSJ
After Best Buy reported a loss of $10 million for its recent quarter on Tuesday, The Wall Street...
Kenwood to Intro WiFi Car Deck at CES
Kenwood will introduce at CES in January, one of the industry’s first in-dash navigation/radios with a WiFi connection...
Crux Intros Bluetooth for Porsche
Crux Interfacing Solutions announced a Bluetooth kit for Porsche vehicles with PCM 2.1 Navigation systems. The new BEPRS-43...
Directed Ships PKE
Directed said it is now shipping full quantities of its new Passive Keyless Entry (PKE) device that unlocks...
Car Audio NPD Results for Q3
Car audio sales to retailers in the third quarter showed fairly steady sales in amplifiers and speakers, but ...
Cyber Monday Continues to Gain Popularity
Next Monday will mark the 7th anniversary of Cyber Monday, and this year, 41 percent of those surveyed...
Rockford Partners With RNL Audio in Florida
Rockford Corporation announced that RNL Audio of Pompano Beach, FL will distribute the Helix brand of high end...