TWICE News

• Aerial7, Kangol Team For Headphone Hats
  
  By John Laposky, February 24, 2011
  New York - Fashion headware supplier Kangol and headphone company Aerial7 have teamed up for a line of hats with built-in headphone speakers in the earflaps.
  
• Pioneer Car Promotes Pandora In Online Ads
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, February 24, 2011
  Long Beach, Calif. - Pioneer's car electronics division launched an online advertising campaign focused on products that stream Pandora's Internet-radio service via connected smartphones.
  
• Kicker Readies Car, Truck Show
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, February 24, 2011
    Stillwater, Okla. - The Kicker division of Stillwater Designs will host its second annual car and truck show next month here at its headquarters, where consumers will be invited to tour the company's visitors' center.
  
• MacBooks Roll With Intel's Thunderbolt Technology
  
  By Doug Olenick, February 24, 2011
  Cupertino, Calif. - Apple revamped its MacBook Pro line to include Intel's latest processor and that company's new Thunderbolt input/output technology.
  
• 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.