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Last week was the 10th annual Detroit Telematics Conference, a two-day demo of futuristic mobile technology. The buzz this year was all over mobile apps and platforms as part of a digital ecosystem.

Aperion Audio marks ten years of award-winning speakers and industry-leading customer satisfaction by offering special pricing and forum contests through July.

Microsoft introduced a spruced up Xbox 360 that keeps up with similar efforts by the other console makers during their announcements at E3. The new console shows up on shelves this week for $299.

Audio Precision introduced the two-channel APx515 Audio Analyzer optimized for production test and starting at only $6200 in the US.

According to iSuppli, a technology market research company, Global 3D TV shipments are expected to reach 4.2 million units in 2010, thanks to acceptance from enthusiastic early adopters.

Luxury cars are rushing to integrate factory-installed WLAN hotspots in their vehicles, but the winner of the "most high tech technology no one can afford" award needs to go to the 2011 Audi A8 sedan.

You know the iPod has hit critical mainstream when Sony integrates it into its vehicular head units, recently introducing two new stereo head units, the DSX-S300BT and DSX-S200X, with built-in trays.

Sony announced that it would be rolling out three reworked titles from its Playstation 3 store next month - at least in Japan to start. This will correspond to the release of 3-D Bravia televisions.

Today's WWDC keynote event held few surprises as Steve Jobs announced the newest 4th generation iPhone 4, dubbed, conveniently, "iPhone 4". The iPhone 4 features an all-new thinner design.

Lex Luthor couldn’t have come up with a better legal entanglement for Warner Brothers. The movie studio that owns DC Comics stands accused of pirating a German company’s anti-piracy software.

Google, who employs over 10,000 people worldwide, is gradually but systematically ditching Windows across its entire company due to security concerns. It's a security effort, said one Google employee.

Something big happened yesterday. And yet it remained largely unreported. Apple had finally overtaken Microsoft in terms of market capitalization, making it the second largest company in the U.S.

Sony Corp. Chairman, Sir Howard Stringer concluded a press conference about its forthcoming Android-based Internet TV yesterday with a widely quoted declaration: "This really is a very big deal."

Late during the evening of 17 May 2010, only a few days after his 98th birthday, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fritz Sennheiser, audio pioneer and founder of today’s Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co KG, passed away.

Harrah's Entertainment and MTV Games are once again seeking the best Rock Band gamers in the U.S. The winning band will receive $10,000 and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet Ringo Starr.

Get ready to keep holding your breath for a new hope: the Organic Light Emitting Transistor (OLET). Findings suggests that OLET can outperform OLED in both brightness and efficiency in emitting light.

Blu-ray video authoring is an expensive proposition, but recently, an open source software group has developed the basis for an alternative to expensive proprietary software.

CableCARD. The technology that would allow any manufacturer to interface with satellite and cableTV programming. Except that, like the Tiger Woods Center for Marriage Enrichment, it failed miserably.

Denon turns 100 and releases new receivers, Blu-ray players, and headphones. The headphones will be noise-canceling, the Blu-ray players universal, and the receivers feature packed.

VUDU announced this morning that they are the only streaming media service provider that will offer Avatar in HD on April 22nd at 12:01 am EST, Earth Day, in a rare day-and-date release.

The Niles ZR-6 Multi-zone receiver was voluntarily conducted by Niles Audio Corp. of Miami, Florida in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

D&M Holdings issued a press release today that it is discontinuing Escient and Snell and rolling much of those technologies into its remaining brands: Denon, Marantz, McIntosh and Boston Acoustics.

Every once in a while we see something that's funny enough to put on our home page. This time around it's a video called A/V Professional by "HiPhi" and directed by Joel T Wilson.

Redbox, who has over 22,400 kiosks across the country is getting ready to release Blu-ray Discs to consumers. Blu-ray Discs will be available in a majority of Redbox kiosks by July.

Long time members of the Audioholics Forums will know that we often have contests. This month, we have something a little special. Speakers from Aperion Audio, ZVOX, and Orb Audio.

HDMI Licensing, the agent responsible for licensing the High-Definition Multimedia Interface specification, today announced the release of HDMI Specification Version 1.4a featuring key enhancements.

The story was first reported at length on our own Audioholics Forums several months ago, but the official grand jury indictment finally came through for Mark L. Schifter of AV123.com.

This year's Mobile World Congress was short on new handset bling but big on new software, the GSM mobile world is not recession proof. An underlying optimism springs from the announcements; promise.