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Equipment levels are generous across the range with all cars getting aircon and a flashy touchscreen infotainment system with a DAB radio, Bluetooth and USB/iPod connectivity as standard.

Commercial Radio Australia (CRA) has teamed up with Sony Australia and is offering bonus pair of Sony Headphones with the purchase of any Sony DAB+ product, in a new digital radio ad campaign for Father's Day.

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. announced the MAX2173 RF to Bits tuner for digital audio broadcast (DAB) applications in automobiles and other mobile DAB/FM products.

DAB+ radio receivers continue to sell well, according to Commercial Radio Australia. 68,417 DAB receivers were sold during 2Q2013, bringing the total number sold since the 2009 launch of the service to 1,318,596.

As of this Friday SPORT1.fm will start broadcasting coverage of matches of the 1st Bundesliga on DAB+ via its programme ENERGY.

Dr. Willi Steul, Director of Deutschlandradio has renewed his organisations commitment to DAB + in an interview with medienpolitik.net.

You don’t have to buy a new car to get DAB radio on the move, as there’s a range of aftermarket head units available. We test eight.

ARD will be at this year's IFA and will be demonstrating the latest technical developments in digital radio and TV in Hall 2.2.

A three-month experiment carried out by the UK's OFCOM Broadcast Specialist Rashid Mustapha has proved that DAB transmission can be done easily and inexpensively, according to The Register. Mustapha conducted the tests on his own time.

Brighton-based radio engineer Rashid Mustapha recorded the gulls as part of his personal mission to show that DAB broadcasting could be done on a shoestring with software he downloaded for free. His success could enable a raft of community stations to broadcast in DAB before the FM analogue frequency is closed down - and potentially encourage pirate broadcasters to haul down their Jolly Rogers and go legal.