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Gateway Adds Colors

Irvine, Calif. — Gateway revamped two of its notebook lines to make them more appealing to customers looking to personalize their computer through color and design.

• Digeo Cuts Staff, Retail Products
• Logitech Posts Record Q3
• Circuit City Names COO, Makes Other Changes

TWICE On Gaming — Peter Suciu

Gaming at CES 2008: More Than Just Guitar Hero?

Every so often a video game comes along that spurs a small cottage industry. Typically it is a character-driven game like Tomb Raider or some similar franchise that draws players in. But this year it was hard to walk the show floor at CES without seeing some rock god wannabe jamming out to some actual rock god's hit single in a video game. The wannabe is typically armed with some plastic version of a real world guitar – and the game of course is Guitar Hero!

Industry Voices — Jeanette Howe

Urgent! Get Certified or Be Left Behind!

Where are thousands of independent specialists? Are we abdicating this opportunity?

Dealers wishing to participate in the DTV set-top box coupon program must apply for certification by contacting the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) by March 31, 2008. Yes, that's right, March 31, 2008 — less than 90 days from today. Although the analog signal cutoff date isn't until February 2009, the real urgency is now. After March 31, dealers who don't get certified will not be able to redeem their customers' $40 DTV converter box coupons.

In response to: Toshiba Takes HD DVD On Offensive, Bill Burns, video store chain owner: "Well this is just a stab in the back to the next-generation format, and a huge increase in consumer confusion, and this is going to hurt my business and probably that of every single movie studio. I own 11 retail stores in the Dallas/Houston area, and we sell 5-to-1 in favor of the Blu-ray format. I had decided after the Warner announcement to stop carrying HD-DVD, and regardless of this news, I will be selling out my stock. We need one format, and Universal and Paramount are now hurting consumers, retailers and themselves by endangering next generation.