MirrorLink Standard to Determine Best Apps for the Car
By Amy Gilroy Not every app works well on the dashboard at 50mph. So the Car Connectivity Consortium (which developed the MirrorLink standard for mirroring your smartphone onto the car radio) is...
View ArticleSirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) and Auto Sales: TrueCar Forecasts Highest May...
By Demian Russian When Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) released its first quarter earnings results on May 1st, Sirius XM management raised the company’s full-year net new subscriber guidance by 200,000,...
View ArticleApple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) New Siri Steering Wheel Control Button
By Amy Gilroy Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference that Siri will be offered via a steering wheel control button by 9 leading car makers within the next 12 months. BMW,...
View ArticleSirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) to Broadcast ’24 Hours of Le Mans’ Auto Race Live
By Demian Russian Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) will offer listeners live coverage of the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race June 16th – 17th from the Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France. Sirius XM...
View ArticleNew Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) Ready Head Unit from Alpine Features...
By Amy Gilroy Alpine Electronics of America is now shipping a first-of-its-kind in-dash AV/navigation radio with an 8 inch screen to fit a double DIN slot. The INE-Z928HD works with a special dash kit...
View ArticleToyota Dealers to Now Offer Free Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) Trial...
By Demian Russian Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) announced this morning that participating Toyota dealerships across the country will now be automatically offering its pre-owned vehicle customers free...
View ArticleNew Car Device Mirrors All Android Apps for Toyota
By Amy Gilroy VAIS Technology is now shipping a device that turns a Toyota/Lexus car radio screen into a virtual mirror of an Android phone for all apps. And the apps are controlled from the radio or...
View ArticleAudiovox DICE Kits Compatible With Apple iOS 6, iPhone 5 Without Adapter
By Amy Gilroy Audiovox (VOXX International Corporation, NASDAQ:VOXX) Driven by DICE announced the first car kits to work with the iPhone 5 without an adapter, as well as older iPhones running the new...
View ArticleSafety Telematics to Reach 75% of Autos in U.S. by 2017
By Amy Gilroy Safety & Security Telematics such as General Motors’ (NYSE:GM) OnStar and GPS tracking is now at a penetration of 30 percent of new U.S. cars, said ABI Research. By 2017, 75 percent...
View ArticleToyota (NYSE:TM) Serious About Gesture Control For Radio
By Amy Gilroy Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE:TM) announced at the LA Auto Show that it is developing gesture control for the car radio. The first we heard of this was last month, at the CEATEC show in...
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