TWICE - December 23, 2002

What's on the menu in Las Vegas this year? For the TWICE staff at CES, it's sore feet, little sleep and tight daily deadlines. But Vegas has transformed itself in recent years into a destination city for fine dining, and the rest of you may want to find out how it did. Our friends at Vegas.com and their print affiliates Las Vegas Life and Showbiz are the resident experts on the ever-changing lo...

• Accessories
• Battery Biz Pushes Power, Longer Life Units

• Business News
• Good Guys' Sales Slid 13 Percent During Fiscal Q3
• Business Notes
• Electronics Boutique Q3 Revenue Soars 55.3%
• HP Fiscal Q4 PC Segment Sales Off 6%
• Palm's Fiscal Q2 All Black, But Sales Dip

• Communications
• Carrier-Direct Share To Hold Steady As CE Retailers' Share Slips: Study
• 18- To 24-Year-Olds Buy Wireless At Higher Rate, Higher Prices: NPD
• Cordless Expansion At CES: 5.8GHz, Demographic-, Room-Specific Models
• Wireless Phones To Draw From Replacement Well In '03

• Computer Technology
• Philips Expands B2B Plans With An Eye Toward SO/HO
• Harry Potter Tops NPD Software List
• Canon, Minolta Bow Last Minute Holiday Cameras
• Flat-Panel, Wireless Speakers In Philips' Sights, Sound Cards Ship
• Planar Drops 19-inch LCD Below $1,000

• Home Audio
• PARA To Sponsor CES Seminars
• 3 To Watch In '03: Systems, Networks, And Convergence
• HTiBs With DVD Increasingly Dominate: NPD
• Internet-Portable Sellthrough: Unit Growth Accelerates In '02

• Major Appliances
• Major Appliances: The Year In Review, Part II

• Mobile Electronics
• FRS Market Quickly Shifting To GMRS/FRS
• Audiovox Introduces Child Locator
• Cobra Slates First 18-Channel GPS Handhelds
• Crimestopper Debuts Vehicle Locator
• JBS Launches Security Brand For Installers

• News
• James Barnett, 49, PDA Sales VP For Audiovox Division
• Best Buy Net For Fiscal Q3 Increases 5%
• Nokia 3rd Qtr. Mobile Phone Sales Rise 7%
• CEA, NCTA Ink Digital TV Agreement
• HDNet Scores HD Rights For Paramount TV
• Tweeter's Fiscal Q4 Sales Jump 21.8%, Comp Store Sales Decrease 1.4%
• CEA Adjusts Video Sales Numbers
• Electrolux Restructures Global Operations, Shuts AC Plant
• IDC Report Says Digital Camera Retail Price War Has Begun
• C'City Reports $21.3 Million Fiscal Q3 Loss
• NPD Sees Strong Start For CE Holiday Sales
• Uniden To Exit Radar Detectors Market By Spring '03
• DirecTV, EchoStar Cancel Merger Plans
• SMaL Teams With CreativeLabs, Oregon Scientific
• Twice People
• Intel To Drive Mobile Wireless Demand

• Retailing/E-tailing
• The Year That Was: TWICE's 2002 Retail Retrospective

• Video/Home Satellite
• CES Television Trends Will Be Flatter, Wider
• ITN Launches North American TV/DVD Line
• Fujitsu Ships Improved 50W-Inch Plasma Panel
• DVD+RW Used For Missing Children
• High Definition Will Remain Key To Satellite Success
• LG.Philips Unveils 52W-Inch LCD TV

• Viewpoint
• A Jekyll & Hyde Kinda Year