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California’s CE Retailers Speak Out On CEC Regs
As you might expect, a few retailers that depend on selling big-screen TVs for a living weren’t exactly all warm and fuzzy with the recent California Energy Commission’s (CEC) decision to impose energy-consumption limits on flat-panel TVs 58 inches and smaller. An advocacy group called Californians for Smart Energy (CSE) sent around comments from some of California’s small-bus ... More
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TWICE reporters give you a deeper look into their areas of expertise.
Black Friday Becoming Black Thanksgiving?
I remember hearing the phrase “Black Friday” in the early 1980s when I first began covering the toy industry. Few outside of the retail industry were familiar with the term back then. In fact, in those years, when my wife and I began our annual tradition of hosting more than a dozen or more family and friends for Thanksgiving dinner, I got up very early the next morning (the store op ... More
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TWICE Editor-in-Chief Steve Smith discusses the latest headlines that ae affecting the consumer electronics industry.
SiBEAM's CEO on IFA and CEATEC 2009
This year I attended both IFA in Berlin and CEATEC in Japan to promote SiBEAM and WirelessHD, as well as to keep my finger on the pulse of the consumer electronics industry in general.Overall, I find trade shows to be a key component of any company’s business development, networking and marketing strategy. In addition to U.S.-centric industry shows and given the fact that we have products ... More
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Expert Insight on the latest consumer electronics from the editors of TWICE Magazine
