Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI): Car-Gadget Standard Gets Boost
By Amy Gilroy We may be getting closer to tightly linking phones and gadgets to the car’s audio system and steering wheel controls. Alpine, Panasonic, GM, and 8 others launched a group called the Car...
View ArticleSirius XM’s (NASDAQ:SIRI) “Smart” Opportunity: Smartphone Shipments to Grow...
By Amy Gilroy The smartphone market will grow by almost 50 percent worldwide this year, which is four times faster than the overall mobile phone market, says IDC. More than 450 million smartphones will...
View ArticleCar Connectivity Consortium: Terminal Mode Is Now MirrorLink
By William Damsky By now you’ve probably heard of Terminal Mode—a standard for syncing your phone with a car radio so the radio screen can mirror the functions on your phone. As of Monday, Terminal...
View ArticleAlpine Ships First MirrorLink Car Radio in Europe
By Amy Gilroy It’s only in Europe, and it’s only in one radio that works with a few Nokia phones, but finally, there is a MirrorLink (Terminal Mode) head unit coming to market in November at an...
View ArticleToyota (NYSE:TM) Offers MirrorLink (Terminal Mode) Radio in Europe
By William Damsky According to CNET, Toyota’s (NYSE:TM) European Touch Life infotainment system is the first OEM platform permitting a true mirror image of the smartphone on the car’s in-dash display....
View ArticleSony (NYSE:SNE) Introduces Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ:SIRI) and Pandora (NYSE:P)...
By Amy Gilroy Sony (NYSE:SNE) announced 4 new car radios on Monday including 2 models with MirrorLink (formerly known as Terminal Mode). It lets the car radio screen literally mirror the display on...
View ArticleAlpine Bringing MirrorLink to the U.S.
By Amy Gilroy Alpine Electronics, Inc. (TYO:6816) finally avowed it will bring MirrorLink technology to the U.S. in an aftermarket car radio this year. MirrorLink is a new standard for enabling your...
View ArticleNew Samsung Galaxy S III Smartphone Breaks Into the Dashboard with...
By Amy Gilroy The new Samsung Galaxy S III won headlines last week for its many intelligent features plus a dazzling screen even larger than that of the hot selling Galaxy S II. You can see some of the...
View ArticleFirst U.S. MirrorLink Car Radio Now Available From Sony — It’s Sirius XM...
By Amy Gilroy Shown in January at CES by Sony (NYSE:SNE), the first MirrorLink car radio is now available. The Sony XAV-701HD MirrorLink Radio ships in August, while the XAV-601BT is now shipping. With...
View ArticleNew Apple iPhone to Play Catch-Up to Samsung
By Michael Tarsala The next-generation Apple iPhone (NASDAQ:AAPL) is now being manufactured, and it will use so-called “in-cell technology” to make the screen thinner, the Wall Street Journal reports....
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