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Infotainment Systems

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Jaguar Land Rover is working on touchless infotainment systems

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Infotainment Systems, Jaguar, Land Rover

Speaking of painful experience, the infotainment systems in Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles suck. They’re slow, don’t hold a connection

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Music News 

Random music news for Saturday, June 27, 2020

June 27, 2020June 26, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Adele, Anthrax, Body Count, Bourbon, Dance Music, Elton John, Glastonbury, Ice-T, Infotainment Systems, Justin Bieber, Pharrell Williams, Sammy Hagar, Tool

Tiger King: The smartphone game (and it’s from Carole Baskin; I wonder if the goal is to find her husband?)

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Gadgets 

Tesla is working to change the automobile infotainment system

November 24, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Infotainment Systems, Tesla

I’m fascinated with the evolution of the car radio. It began with a tube-powered insanely expensive tube-powered aftermarket item in

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Geeks&Beats 

Geeks and Beats podcast, episode 222: Dashboard decisions

March 27, 2019March 30, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Infotainment Systems

Buying a new car? Chances are you’re just as concerned about what kind of electronics are in the dashboard as

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Music News 

Random music news for Thursday, January 24, 2019

January 24, 2019January 23, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments 1968, Adele, Dolby, Drugs, Ed Sheeran, Infotainment Systems, KISS, MQA, Music Blogs, Nile Rodgers, Vinyl

Off to Nashville today for a chat with Metallica. Kirk Hammett and I will inevitably have a conversation on our

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Music News 

Cool: Your future car could have a dashboard like this

January 12, 2019January 11, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment Infotainment Systems, QNX

QNX, a division of BlackBerry, is all about the software that powers automobile infotainment systems. Here’s what they demonstrated at

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Radio Tech 

The latest look at how people consume audio entertainment in the car

December 12, 2018December 12, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Commuting, Infotainment Systems, Radio

RAIN reports on a new study by Edison Research on how we consume audio entertainment in our vehicles as we

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Music News 

Random music news for Thursday, June 14, 2018

June 14, 2018June 13, 2018 Alan Cross 2 Comments Airpods, Apple, BitTorrent, Bonnaroo, Fyre Festival, Infotainment Systems, Justin Bieber, Music Discovery, Ozuna, Robbie Williams, RPM, Russia, Streaming, Tegel Airport, Vinyl, Vladimir, World Cup

Donald Trump’s friends are Russia, China, and North Korea. His enemies are Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. What’s wrong with

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Music News Tech 

Here’s why speakers may be the next thing to disappear from your car.

March 25, 2018March 24, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Car Audio, Car Stereos, Infotainment Systems, Speakers

Ever since the first car radios appeared in vehicles in the late 1920s and 1930s, audio entertainment has been evolving. 1952:

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Radio 

If People Trade AM-FM Radio for Streaming, What Happens in the Car?

April 25, 2016 Alan Cross 3 Comments Connected Car, Infotainment Systems, Streaming Music

If there’s one thing that keeps broadcasters up at night, it’s the future of radio in the car. Automobiles and

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Gadgets Radio 

Volvo Announces Spotify Integration in the Dashboard of All Its New Cars

February 23, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Connected Car, Infotainment Systems, Spotify, Volvo

For decades, the car dashboard has been the domain of AM/FM radio, augmented by tape machines and CD players. In

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