With App Remote, it is no longer necessary to go back-and-forth between the car audio system and smartphone to access a favorite tune.
Its focus is on the development of new digital technologies including audio video, navigation and satellite radio, while maintaining its strong heritage in products for car audio enthusiasts and sound competitors.
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The Samsung Galaxy S III is Nokia had the first mobile device to support MirrorLink (followed by Samsung with its Galaxy S III), while Sony has released five MirrorLink-compatible car audio head units.
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But industry engineers will continue to make the pilgrimage to dB Drag events because they are to car audio what Nascar is to Detroit: fertile ground for new product ideas developed by obsessive customers in pursuit of perfection.
Rhapsody is the original premium, ad-free on-demand music service, with more than one million members, who can listen to more than 16 million tracks on their favorite device, including connected audio systems, smartphones, iPads and Android tablets, MP3 players, connected TVs, gaming consoles and in-car audio.
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During a lunchtable chat with some attendees at the second summit, Dipti Vachani told them how she persuaded her boss to cap her travel at 40% to 50% of her time in 2006, when she took charge of the company's car audio-product line and her two offspring were toddlers.
The Peerless drive, for instance, which uses big cartridges that hold up to 20 gigabytes of data, might be useful for in-car digital audio players or as a removable drive for storing video in a TiVo -like TV set-top box.
Garmin's new multi-controller concept provides a new and unique way of controlling essential functions of an in-car infotainment system, such as audio, apps, communications and navigation.
Using Bluetooth, the hardware can connect to iOS and Android devices and pipes audio from any app through a car's sound system.
They marveled at the quality of the screen image, and when I plugged the audio output of the FireAnt into the car stereo I didn't hear another word from them until the movie was over.
"Sony continues to lead the connected car era with state-of-the-art mobile audio technologies, " said Andrew Sivori, Vice President of the Personal Audio Group at Sony Electronics Inc.
Pioneer's Car Electronics Department is known for offering the kind of in-car products that make driving more enjoyable by offering high quality audio and video, seamless connectivity and ease-of-use.
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On Paya's website, his daughter Rosa Maria posted an audio clip saying his family believed that a second car had been involved and that it had intentionally struck the car in which Paya was traveling.
Its parent company, Pioneer Corporation, is a preeminent manufacturer of high-performance audio, video and computer equipment for the home, car and business markets and is celebrating 75 years of innovation in the consumer electronics industry.
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We've also got interviews galore -- we'll be talking with Sony CEO Kaz Hirai, SMS Audio CEO (and rapper, we're told) 50 Cent, rally car driver Ken Block, Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, Stern Pinball CEO Gary Stern, MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis and CEA president Gary Shapiro among many, many others (including a very special appearance from Gallagher -- this is Vegas, after all).
Eiji Toyoda, president and chairman of Toyota at the time, pressed his employees to produce a car that measured each part against the best in the world, including the best transmission and the best audio system, and to have a high fuel-efficiency rating to boot.
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