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.
The company also said it developed a new social-networking service that allows customers to upload gameplay footage to the Internet, as well as watch others as they play.
The new, in-house developed map service is still young and may lack some of the more advanced features Google customers enjoy, but it does provide the basics -- interactive maps and customized overlays.