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Audiovox Appoints New Director of LBS

Audiovox Electronics Corp. announced Wednesday the appointment of Joe Tegerdine to the post of Director of Location Based Products and Services. Tegerdine was recently Senior Director of Business Development and U.S. General Counsel for Wistron Neweb Corp., a Taiwan based manufacturer. At Wilstron, he successfully secured a number of multi-million dollar machine-to-machine communication (M2M)  programs covering mobile health, smart grid and transportation.... [Read more of this story]

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Toyota Teams with Nintendo to Control Radio

In Japan, Toyota and Nintendo have teamed up so that you can control a Toyota navigation system with a Nintendo DS. Passengers (presumably not drivers) can input a destination from their DS and view maps and also sightseeing information. It requires a Kuruma de DS game card (translatation: Use the DS in the Car).  It works over Bluetooth after pairing... [Read more of this story]

Audiovox Appoints New Director of LBS

Audiovox Electronics Corp. announced Wednesday the appointment of Joe Tegerdine to the post of Director of Location Based Products and Services. Tegerdine was recently Senior Director of Business Development and U.S. General Counsel for Wistron Neweb Corp., a Taiwan based manufacturer. At Wilstron, he successfully secured a number of multi-million dollar... [Read more of this story]

Apple Lands Patent for Steering Wheel Control

Apple was granted a patent Tuesday for a steering wheel remote control for a smartphone or iPod-like device. It’s based on Apple’s old “click wheel” found on the original iPods.  But this time it gets a new touch-sensitive design and a system for mounting on the steering wheel, reports Patently Apple. The patent is for a wireless device that... [Read more of this story]

Massive Audio Adds to DX Drivers

Massive Audio announced it will ship this summer, additions to its DX line of coaxial OEM replacement car speakers. Massive Audio DX693 It will add shallow mount driver models DX6S, DX69S  in corresponding 6.5 inch and 6 by 9 inch sizes, as well as the DX6 (6.5-inch) component kit at $69.95 and new DX2, DX3, and DX65 models. All DX series coaxial speakers... [Read more of this story]

Audiovox Parent Sees Some Car Audio Gains

Audiovox Electronics parent VOXX Corp. announced gains in sales of OEM and traditional car audio for fiscal 2012 ended in February. Aftermarket car audio and security sales rose but were offset by lower sales of satellite radio and fulfillment of FLO TV products (discontinued last year). The company recently reported an increase of nearly 5 percent... [Read more of this story]

Kenwood Puts Driver Assist on Roadmap

Kenwood may offer driver assist products in the future, joining other suppliers such as Mobileye, Alpine and Audiovox. “It’s on our roadmap…but it’s too soon to talk about it,” said Kenwood’s Keith Lehmann. Mobileye Driver Assist System Audiovox also told us it is working on a prototype for a blind spot detection product, but it too is not... [Read more of this story]

Pioneer Transforms Aftermarket Navigation in Japan

Pioneer announced delivery in Japan this July of its head up display that now adds augmented reality navigation.  A holographic image on the windshield shows the car in real time, photo realistically moving down the road, with information on the next turn. Pioneer Cyber Navi The system can be mounted on 70 percent of existing cars.  The head up display... [Read more of this story]

MirrorLink Standard to Determine Best Apps for Car

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 creating a standard for certifying which apps are acceptable for MirrorLink, it confirmed. MirrorLink presentation for Samsung Galaxy SIII The certification process should... [Read more of this story]

iOnRoad Wins CTIA Wireless E-Tech Award

At the CTIA wireless show this week,  iOnRoad was selected as the E-Tech Award winner in the Automotive, Safe Driving and Transportation category. . iOnRoad is a driving safety app that uses the smartphone’s native camera and sensors to warn drivers of a potential collision.  It can detect your lane and the cars  in front of your vehicle, so... [Read more of this story]

What Geeky Millennials Think About Car Audio

              This photo elicited 2500 comments recently on Reddit-  a popular Internet social site for semi-Geeky Millennials.    So if you want to know what they say about car radios, scroll down a bit into the comments  (skip the first thread about an ’87 Fiero) and click here.  Hint:  They like an aux... [Read more of this story]

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