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Amazon Looking At Physical Retail Stores
Amazon plans to open a brick and mortar retail store in Seattle to sell its own gadgets including...
New HandsFree Law Affects 4 Million
Retailers may want to make note of a new national law that went into effect January 3, called...
Best Buy SuperBowl Ad Celebrates Technology
Best Buy's SuperBowl commercial Sunday showed some of the smartphone technology wizards of the past decade along with...
This Car Has 17-Inch Touchscreen
This summer, Tesla Motors plans to deliver its Model S electric sedan with a 17-inch touch screen and...
Boss Audio: Latest iPhone Car Radio
Boss Audio is pushing the technology envelope this year, offering its first iPhone car radio and also its...
JVC Kenwood Sales Down, Net Income Up
JVC Kenwood announced its financial results for the period from April 1 through December 31, 2011. Net sales...
WiGig for Car Next Year
Panasonic recently showed a new in-car system concept that uses a super-fast WiFi-like wireless standard called WiGig. The...
Samsung’s Latest Phone: Galaxy Note
One of the more “notable” new smartphones shown at CES this month was the Samsung Galaxy Note, sporting...
MECP Exam Launches Feb. 1; New Study Guide
The next MECP (Mobile Electronics Certified Professional) exam car audio installers will launch February 1, 2012. And now...
Next iPhone Car Radio is from Next Base
Next Base, which makes DVD players for the car that are often sold through Ford dealers, is launching...
Escort Ships Back Up Camera/Mirror
Escort continues its expansion into new products beyond the radar detector with a smart mirror it calls SmartSite....
Fusion Brings WiFi to Marine Audio
Fusion will offer in March the first marine audio radios that can be controlled by your phone so...
TV Displays for Car Audio MESA Retailers
These days even Subway sandwich shops have big TVs in the store to send a message to consumers,...
Droid Razr Maxx Now Available: Still Skinny
If you thought the ultra-thin Motorola Razr was cool but a little light on the battery life, then the...
Remote Start Report in a Balmy Winter
We expected retailers to be crying in their soup about remote start sales since the weather has been...
Kicker Adds Trent Partners, N&S Mktg Reps
Kicker (Stillwater Designs) announced new reps: Trent Partners and Associates and Naeseth & Solaas Marketing and Sales. Trent...
Rydeen to Launch Android Test Market
Rydeen said it will launch a test market in April of the Android car radio it unveiled at...
New “Dash” Car Stereo Debuts
The Dash is a new double DIN head unit that is basically a shell for your phone. It...
Apple Reports Astounding iPhone Sales
Updated. Not long ago, it was a big deal if Apple sold 15 million iPhones over the holiday...
Time to Push Satellite Radio?
Now that a simpler, cheaper 2.0 SiriusXM tuner is heading to market, which will work with almost 60...