TWICE News

• Study Explains Speedy Tablet Influx
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, February 24, 2011
  Waltham, Mass. - The global consulting firm PRTM has pointed to several reasons for the large number of vendors entering the tablet category.
  
• Target's Q4 Profits Rise 11%
  
  By Alan Wolf, February 24, 2011
  Minneapolis - Target's fourth-quarter earnings rose 10.5 percent to $1 billion on soaring credit card profits and strong retail operating margins.
  
• Sprint Snags First CDMA Windows Phone 7 Handset
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, February 24, 2011
  Overland Park, Kan. - The Windows Phone 7 smartphone platform will come to a CDMA network for the first time with the March 20 arrival of the $199 HTC Arrive on the Sprint network.
  
• Vizio Tops Q4 Market Share Reports
  
  By Greg Tarr, February 24, 2011
  Irvine, Calif. - A consensus of top U.S. TV display analysts showed that Vizio ranked No. 1 in U.S. LCD TV unit volume market share for the fourth quarter, while Samsung held on to the top overall flat-panel TV (combined plasma and LCD) dollar volume market share.
  
• NPD: Celebrity Endorsements Do Indeed Sell Headphones
  
  By John Laposky, February 24, 2011
    Port Washington, N.Y. - The ever-growing trend of celebrity-endorsed stereo headphones coming to market makes good business sense according to The NPD Group.
  
• SteelSeries Kicks Off 10-Year Anniversary Contest
  
  By John Laposky, February 24, 2011
  New York - High-end gaming accessories supplier SteelSeries is celebrating its 10th anniversary by giving away complete suites of gaming peripherals via a social media campaign.
  
• T-Mobile Prices Galaxy S 4G, Bills For Media Hub
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, February 24, 2011
  Bellevue, Wash. - T-Mobile priced the 4G version of its Samsung Galaxy S smartphone at $199 after $50 rebate card and announced that consumers would be able to pay for Samsung's MediaHub video-download service through their monthly phone bills.
  
• Sony, Sixth Avenue Hold Charity Raffle
  
  TWICE Staff, February 24, 2011
    Paramus, N.J. - Sony and Sixth Avenue Electronics joined forces to raise money and awareness for a local children's charity last week, with an assist from basketball great John Starks.
  
• Elan Offers Home-Control Demo Kit
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, February 24, 2011
    Carlsbad, Calif. - Elan has developed an aggressively priced demo system that dealers can use to demonstrate an Elan g! home-control system in their showrooms or in customers' homes.
  
• CE Pounds Sears' Q4 Profits; CEO Appointed
  
  Alan Wolf, February 24, 2011
  Hoffman Estates, Ill. - Lower CE sales and slimmer margins led Sears Holding's fourth-quarter earnings down 13 percent to $374 million.
  
• GPS Industry Worries About Lightsquared Interference
  
  Joseph Palenchar, February 24, 2011
  New York - The GPS industry and Lightsquared plan to conduct field tests to determine whether Lightsquared's terrestrial cell sites will, as Garmin believes, interfere with the operation of GPS-equipped consumer products and commercial devices.
  
• Spider Holster Ships Black Widow System
  
  By Greg Tarr, February 23, 2011
    Ithaca, N.Y. - Innovative camera accessories developer Spider Holster introduced this week its Black Widow Holster designed to let entry to mid-level d-SLR owners carry their cameras around on a specially configured and secure belt clip.
  
• CEA Forms Wireless Power Standards Subcommittee
  
  TWICE Staff, February 23, 2011
  Arlington, Va. -- The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today launched a new wireless power technical standards program, the Wireless Power Subcommittee, and encouraged participation by interested companies.
  
• New Computer Cases Debut From Acme Made, Skooba
  
  By John Laposky, February 23, 2011
    New York -- Two companies rolled out new computer cases this week.
  
• CEA: Consumer Confidence Fell In February
  
  TWICE Staff, February 23, 2011
  Arlington, Va. -- Consumer confidence in the overall economy is down this month, according to the latest data released today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).
  
• Business Rebounds At Lowe's, Home Depot
  
  TWICE Staff, February 23, 2011
  New York - Operational upgrades and the recovering economy sent fourth-quarter profits soaring for the two leading home improvement chains.
  
• AOC Intros New Monitors
  
  TWICE Staff, February 23, 2011
  Fremont, Calif. - AOC has added three models to its AireLED monitor series.
  
• HP's PC Revenue Declines
  
  By Doug Olenick, February 23, 2011
  New York - Hewlett-Packard's personal systems group (PSG) saw its first quarter revenue decline 1 percent on the back of soft consumer sales.
  
• DirecTV Sees $618M Q4 Profit
  
  By Greg Tarr, February 23, 2011
  El Segundo, Calif. -- DirecTV reported Wednesday a return to profitability for the fourth quarter on net income of $618 million, compared with a loss of $32 million for the same period last year.
  
• AVS Gear Rolls Out LED Backlit Keyboard
  
  By John Laposky, February 23, 2011
    Los Angeles -- AVS Gear announced the availability of a new top-of-line LED backlit keyboard, the Zippy BL-741.