TWICE News

• CES 2009: Ford Unveils Another Sync
  
  By Amy Gilroy, January 8, 2009
  LAS VEGAS — Ford and Microsoft debuted at International CES the newest version of the popular Sync  voice-activated car radio.
  
• Best Buy Tops BIGresearch Dec. Retail Ratings
  
  By TWICE Staff, January 8, 2009
  Las Vegas — Best Buy topped BIGresearch’s CE retail ratings for December.
  
• CES 2009: HTSA Recognizes Vendor Partners
  
  By Colleen Bohen, January 8, 2009
  Las Vegas — In spite of the challenging year it has faced, the Home Theater Specialists of America found cause for celebration during its sixth annual Vendor Awards ceremony, held this week here at Caesar’s Palace.
  
• CES 2009: Ballmer Keynote Doesn’t Quite Fit The Bill
  
  By Doug Olenick, January 8, 2009
  Las Vegas — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is no Bill Gates — at least when it comes to delivering a star-packed CES keynote address.
  
• CES 2009: Panasonic PDPs Go Super Thin
  
  By TWICE Staff, January 8, 2009
  LAS VEGAS — Panasonic is making 3-D technology a big part of its International CES showcase, demonstrating the capability on prototype FullHD 1080p plasma displays using a Panasonic-developed Blu-ray Disc player capable of playing back 3-D Blu-ray Disc movies.
  
• CES 2009: Sharp Unveils Aquos BD Combo Series
  
  By Greg Tarr, January 8, 2009
  Las Vegas — Sharp used its pre-International CES press conference to add further details on the rollout of a five-model Blu-ray Disc series of Aquos LCD TV/BD combo players.
  
• CES 2009: Toshiba To Add Cell TV, Widget IPTV
  
  By Greg Tarr, January 8, 2009
  Las Vegas — Toshiba is previewing at International CES its Cell TV technology, which will bring high-powered Cell processing to TVs to enable recording and displaying multiple HDTV programs, and further improve imaging quality through super high-speed video processing, the company said.
  
• CES 2009: Tech & Engineering Emmy Winners
  
  By Glenn Dickson and David Tanklefsky, January 8, 2009
  Las Vegas — The National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences handed out the 2009 Technology and Engineering Emmy Awards Wednesday night at the Venetian in Las Vegas. 
  
• CES 2009: Netgear Shows Entertainment, Storage Devices
  
  By Colleen Bohen, January 8, 2009
  Las Vegas — Netgear is showing a collection of new networking devices, entertainment-related products and storage solutions here at International CES.
  
• CES 2009: Cisco Bows Licensing Program At CES
  
  By Colleen Bohen, January 8, 2009
  Las Vegas — Cisco discussed its new Cisco Device Connections Program and two new consumer-targeted devices during its press conference here this week during International CES.
  
• CES 2009: Monster Announces Strategic Partnerships
  
  By John Laposky, January 8, 2009
  Las Vegas — Monster used its “30th anniversary” press conference at International CES to announce strategic partnerships with Digeo, Gennum and Hewlett-Packard, as well as line extensions to its cable, power and headphone lines.
  
• Mixed Dec. Sales For Mass Retailers
  
  By Steve Smith, January 8, 2009
  Las Vegas — Top mass retailers reported mixed December sales Thursday morning, with Wal-Mart seeing a slight increase in comp-store sales for the month.
  
• CES 2009: CE Sales Should Fall 0.6% In 2009
  
  By Steve Smith, January 8, 2009
  LAS VEGAS — The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is forecasting a drop in full-year factory sales to dealers for the first time in recent memory, a 0.6 percent decrease to $170.9 billion for 2009.
  
• CES 2009: Eye-Fi Developing YouTube Uploading
  
  By Greg Scoblete, January 7, 2009
  Las Vegas – Wireless SD card maker Eye-Fi said that was developing technology for wirelessly uploading videos from cameras and camcorders to YouTube.
  
• CES 2009: Casio Demonstrates New Digicam Technologies
  
  By Greg Scoblete, January 7, 2009
  Las Vegas — Casio will introduce a new composite moving image technology in 2009 that will let photographers create motion elements that can be applied to a variety of still backgrounds.
  
• CES 2009: iBiquity: HD Radio Portables Due In ’09
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, January 7, 2009
  Las Vegas — HD Radio developer iBiquity expects a handful of portable radios and a growing selection of personal navigation devices (PNDs) to be available this year with HD Radio reception.
  
• CES 2009: McIntosh Adds HD Radio
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, January 7, 2009
  Las Vegas — McIntosh launched its second home HD Radio product and its first audio component to incorporate decoding of all authorized Blu-ray surround formats.
  
• CES 2009: Audio Briefs
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, January 7, 2009
  Las Vegas — Acoustic Energy’s new flagship series is the Radiance.
  
• CES 2009: Swann Unviels Security Products
  
  By TWICE Staff, January 7, 2009
  Las Vegas — Home security manufacturer Swann Communications added two new consumer oriented security products to its lineup at International CES, here.
  
• CES 2009: SD Card to Hit 2TB
  
  By TWICE Staff, January 7, 2009
  Las Vegas — The SD card format will hit the 2TB mark with blazing data speeds of up to 300MBps thanks to the new SDXC (extended capacity) specification.