Before it was a international telecommunications giant, Motorola was the name of a car radio.
And while he drove he tangled with the scan button on the car radio.
As a result, hearing news about Enron today feels like hearing a golden oldie on the car radio.
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The car radio is on and playing triumphal music, because the Allies are getting closer and closer to Berlin.
When your car radio receives an AM or FM broadband signal that is all that is happening it is receiving the signal.
Voice portals could well become a new form of interactive car radio.
Whiskey in hand, the elder Dixon boy drives slowly to the rendezvous with the Governor, blasting music on the car radio as he drives.
The company was launched by two brothers, Joseph and Paul Galvin, the latter of whom reportedly bestowed the car radio with its soon-to-be-famous name.
Dad managed to get all the way out here without saying one thing about the terrible music you were playing on the car radio.
In a fair world Crenshaw would be richer than Katy Perry and his sharp, jangly, immaculately constructed guitar pop would play from every car radio.
Patrizia Rizzo ran down the main boulevard to the piazza with her two children as soon as she heard the news on the car radio.
This was a time before mobile phones - the only contact I had with the outside world while I was driving was the standard car radio in the dashboard.
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In it, he manages to compare Laurel and Hardy with the Apostles Peter and Paul, and barely heard tunes on a car radio to the Stations of the Cross.
How I ended up at the King home on the night of April 4, 1968, began about an hour earlier when I first heard the terrible news on a car radio.
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The Motorola car radio was released by the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in 1930, two years after the company's founding in Chicago, kicking things off with a battery eliminator, aimed at letting battery-powered home radios run off of household electricity.
Rick Wagoner, president of General Motors, suggests that within a decade this technology will be standard as common as the car-radio is today.
Microsoft complained the suit was mostly about it bundling Microsoft Explorer with Windows, a move that killed Netscape but which was the equivalent of shipping cars with radios installed, which killed the independent car-radio merchants.
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In the not-too-distant future, a car with a radio that receives only AM or FM will qualify as an antique.
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But when I pulled into the city in 2012, I didn't even bother to reset my car's radio to the local stations.
Yet the most disruptive of technologies -- those that create whole new industries (the telephone, the car, the radio and the microprocessor) -- always start out very small.
On the radio, car companies are asking people to trade in their used cars because their inventory is low.
Of these 60% who buy a car equipped with satellite radio, just under half (45-46%) tend to convert to self-pay subscribers after the promotion trial runs out.
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Jacinto 5 plays an important role in the new architecture of Audi's high infotainment systems, which consist of a multimedia applications unit ("MMX") and a highly integrated radio and car control unit ("RCC").
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FIA, the sport's world governing body, will have an extra observer at the four-day event after last year's incident when the Ford Focus of Carlos Sainz hit a radio-car and hit a group of spectators, injuring 13 people.
Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.
Because I live in California and spend hours a week in my car, I use talk radio as a barometer of political weather.
They can be counted on to side with radio-station owners over XM radio, with car dealers over online alternatives, with television broadcasters over broadband.
As he mashes the joystick controls, Colin Angle grins like a 6-year-old boy playing with his first radio-controlled car, freshly torn wrapping paper thrown aside.
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The BMW Apps integration will enable users to access the TuneIn app using infotainment controls of their vehicle, allowing them to navigate the world's radio from their car.
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