Tag: connected car
Ford Buys Former Aftermarket 12V Company
Ford announced it purchased Livio , which until recently made aftermarket Internet Radio devices. Livio, considered a startup...
Car Toys Revamps Stores for Connected Car
Car Toys is investing millions of dollars to outfit all of its 50 stores with connected car demonstration...
Car Toys May Help 12V Stores Enter Wireless
50-store chain Car Toys, based in Seattle, is in talks with some car audio retailers about helping them...
Wireless In the Car Heating Up
The aftermarket is already seeing its first WiFi based radios from a leading supplier in Kenwood’s DNN990HD and...
Car Makers 3 Years Away From Easy, Simple Radios With Apps
During CE Week last week, a panel of automotive tech experts said a super simple-to-use OEM car radio...
Car Electronics Summit Held This Month
This year’s CE Week- a “mini CES” event held each June--will include a Connected Car Conference (C3) on...
Auto Aftermarket Repair Face Shut Out by Connected Car
ATLANTA-- Ten years from now, Jiffy Lube and NAPA franchise owners will stand desolate in front of their...
A Fifth of Cars to Get Apps by 2017
A fifth of consumer vehicles in North America and Western Europe will have car radios with app capability...
Kenwood Launches New “Connected LifeStyle” Web Site
Kenwood USA Corporation launched a new web site with a theme to “Live Connected, Drive Connected.” It's a...
Microsoft May Bring Kinect to the Car
Microsoft said it plans to tie in Kinect—it’s full body wireless game controller—into the car. At least it...
BMW to Offer Stitcher
BMW announced at the South By Southwest Interactive Conference that it is adding Stitcher—on-demand radio for news, talk...
Internet Connected Cars To Pass 90M By 2016
Four years from now, smartphone integration will become just about standard in new cars. According to Juniper Research,...
Car Audio January Results: NPD
January 2012 sales for aftermarket car audio, video and navigation took a downward turn, falling 14 percent in...
42 % of Aftermarket Car Radios Have Bluetooth
About 42 percent of all in dash car radios sold at retail in 2011 were Bluetooth equipped, according...
Ford Expands Sync Availability
The Ford Sync is now available as standard equipment (standard, not optional) on all trim levels for the...
Fed Loosening up on Driver Distraction:WSJ
The Fed is changing its tune on calling for a full ban on cellphone use in the car,...
All Budget Cars to Get Phone Connectivity in 5 Yrs
We’ve heard more aggressive claims before, but Harman's latest pronouncement drives home the point… Harman said Tuesday it...
Pandora Now Available on BMW
While almost every auto maker is promising Pandora control, the feature actually only became available on BMW cars...
½ of New Cars to Support Apps in 5 Years
Over half of mass market cars will support apps through their car radio platforms by 2016. And more...
Audi Shows 3G Car
More proof that our cars will soon be wireless hotspots, came from Audi this week, which will deliver...