Doug Olenick

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Tablets: The Ultimate Crossover Product

If there ever is a vote held to name the official “Jack of all Trades CE Product,” my ballot would be cast for the tablet PC. The tablet is the ultimate crossover tool. A tablet can be a desktop computer, laptop, portable video player, music player, phone, video conferencing device, game console, e-book reader, digital camera and a drink coaster. Although I would be careful... More

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Is Amazon’s PriceCheck App A Retailer’s Opportunity?

The recent flap over Amazon’s PriceCheck app has caused a bit of a stir on TWICE’s talkback page , with readers calling the practice everything from unethical to arrogant. Amazon’s deal offered customers a discount if they went to a brick-and-mortar retailer and used Amazon’s PriceCheck app to check out a product in the store, but bought it from Amazon. Amazon... More

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Amazon’s Tablet Entry

I think it might be safe to say Amazon’s Kindle Fire has a lot of retailers and manufacturers a bit worried today, although they may not admit it. Well, except for one well-known exception, of course. And that worrying may be time well spent, as the $199 Fire will put a monkey wrench into the fourth-quarter plans for many companies. The Fire may not be as powerful nor have as many... More

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Tablets To Be Served Up For Black Friday

One of our country’s more interesting traditions takes place in exactly nine weeks. At that time millions of Americans will drag themselves out of bed at 3 a.m., still stuffed with turkey and possibly suffering from having imbibed too much the evening before, in order to fight for the chance to a buy a $49 Blu-ray player or a marked-down plasma TV. Yes, Black Friday is on the horizon.... More

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Acer Posts Q2 Loss

Maybe Hewlett-Packard has it right and there is no money to be made in the PC business. Acer today posted its first-ever quarterly loss and company chairman J.T. Wang said there is no way the firm will post a profit this year as previously announced. The reported second-quarter net loss was $6.8 billion in New Taiwanese dollars, or $234 million in U.S. dollars — about three times... More