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Wal-Mart To Back Blu-ray
Bentonville, Ark. – Wal-Mart will back Blu-ray exclusively in its 4,000 Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores in the United States by June, the chain said in a statement on its Web site this afternoon.

Study Says Salespeople Like Blu-ray
West Lake Village, Calif. — A new J.D. Power and Associates mystery shopper study has found that retail salespeople across the country are strongly recommending Blu-ray Disc players over HD DVD to their customers.


Additional News
William French Dead At 63
Santa Fe, Calif. – William Davied French, 63, Westinghouse Digital Electronics regional sales manager and 40-year consumer electronics industry veteran, died Feb. 3 after a long illness, the company said Thursday.

Nokia Boosts Cellphone Memory To 16GB
nokiaBarcelona, Spain — A Nokia cellphone with more flash memory than most of the MP3 players now on the market is coming to the United States later this year.

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U.S. PIRG Report Calls Retailers 'Misleading'
Updated! Washington — U.S. PIRG released a report this week accusing several national electronic retailers of failing to adequately educate their employees and inform customers of the impending analog broadcasting cutoff date.

Epoq Expands Cellular Watch List
Boca Raton, Fla.— Titan Global Commerce has expanded its selection of cellular watch phones with two quad-band unlocked-GSM models suitable for any current U.S. GSM network.

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DTV Coupons To Be Mailed Feb. 17
Washington, D.C. – With the end of analog TV broadcasting exactly a year away on Sunday, U.S. Commerce Dept. secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez declared the federal TV converter box coupon program is on track.

MP3-Player Speaker Docks Surge: CEA
Arlington, Va. — Factory-level sales of  MP3-player docking-speaker systems have risen so rapidly in the past few years that their 2007 dollar volume was almost a third of the size of the traditional home audio market, according to CEA estimates.

Best Buy Lowers Forecasts
Minneapolis — Best Buy lowered its fiscal year earnings and same-store sales forecasts based on lower-than-expected revenue growth in fiscal January coupled with its near-term outlook, but restated its commitment to open more stores in the United States and internationally.

Samsung Reveals Internet TV Search System
samsungRidgefield Park, N.J. — Samsung Electronics said it has developed a set-top box technology called See’N’Search to enable users to call up Internet content on their TVs without a PC, keyboard or special content programming.

TWICE Viewpoint
TWICE editor-in-chief Steve Smith says you have to look passed the obvious when it comes to figuring out how retail sales are performing.

Reporters Notebook
TWICE blogger John Laposky found something interesting on the Internet.

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