TWICE News

• Retrevo: Blu-ray Shoppers Want Further Price Cuts For Holidays
  
  By Greg Tarr, October 19, 2009
  Sunnyvale, Calif. - Things are looking up for Blu-ray player sales this holiday season but manufacturers may have to take further steps to ensure robust holiday sell-through, according to a new Retrevo Pulse combined data study posted Monday.
  
• P.C. Richard Hosts 100th Anniversary Gala
  
  By Alan Wolf, October 19, 2009
    New York - P.C. Richard & Son celebrated its 100th anniversary Saturday night with 1,000 of its closest friends.
  
• DEG: Blu-ray Player Sales Up 13%
  
  By Greg Tarr, October 19, 2009
  Los Angeles - More than 3.3 million Blu-ray Disc players shipped to dealers through the first three quarters of 2009, up 13 percent over the same period last year.
  
• Memorex Adds Flash-Memory Camcorders
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, October 16, 2009
  Oakdale, Minn. - Imation launched its first Memorex-branded camcorders, all storing video in flash memory.
  
• Emerge Technologies Debuts ReTrak 4-In-1
  
  By TWICE Staff, October 16, 2009
    Irving, Texas - Emerge Technologies today debuted its ReTrak four-in-one Charge & Sync for use with iPhones and other mobile devices.
  
• iPhone App Remote Starts Car From Viper
  
  By Amy Gilroy, October 16, 2009
  Vista, Calif. - Directed Electronics launched one of the first apps that will remote start a car using an iPhone instead of a key-fob transmitter.
  
• Cellphone Supplier PCD Adding Converged Devices
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, October 16, 2009
  Hauppauge, N.Y. - Personal Communications Devices (PCD) is expanding beyond cellphones and cellular modem to offer netbooks, mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and other converged devices with embedded cellular.
  
• Boston Expands Wireless Sub Selection
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, October 16, 2009
  Peabody, Mass. - Boston Acoustics expanded its selection of wireless subwoofers with three models in its Classic series at street prices of $399 to $599.
  
• LG Portable Mobile DTV Due Early 2010
  
  By Amy Gilroy, October 16, 2009
    Washington - After three years of waiting, Mobile Digital Television -offering free, live streaming digital TV to portables - came closer to reaching the market.
  
• HTSA Dealers Diversifying Operations
  
  By Alan Wolf, October 15, 2009
    St. Louis - Members of the Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA) are coping with the economic downturn by adding new products and services to diversify their businesses.
  
• HD Radio Standard In All New Volvos
  
  By Amy Gilroy, October 15, 2009
  Columbia, Md. - Volvo Cars of North America became the first automaker to offer HD Radio as a standard feature in all its car lines, confirmed iBiquity Digital, developer of HD Radio.
  
• Nokia Reports Lower Sales, Loss For Q3
  
  By Steve Smith, October 15, 2009
  Espoo, Finland - Nokia is optimistic about mobile phones for the balance of the year, but reported a double-digit drop in net sales and loss in the third quarter compared with last year.
  
• ‘WikiReader' Handheld Debuts
  
  By Amy Gilroy, October 15, 2009
    Taipei, Taiwan - A new "WikiReader" palm-sized device at $99 embeds 3 million Wikipedia articles in a handheld, so users can access information on the go without the need for a cellular connection.
  
• BlackBerry Storm2 Brewing For Holidays
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, October 15, 2009
    Waterloo, Canada - RIM's second-generation touchscreen phone, the BlackBerry Storm2, will offer a more responsive touchscreen, more accurate typing on its virtual keyboard and other enhancements when it rolls out in coming weeks.
  
• Ford Launches Best Buy Trial Of Sync Demos
  
  By Amy Gilroy, October 15, 2009
  Dearborn, Mich. - Ford will launch this October its previously announced venture with Best Buy to promote the car maker's popular Sync radios with voice activation.
  
• Acer Launches $349 Android/XP Netbook
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, October 15, 2009
    San Jose, Calif. - Acer's Aspire One netbook, available today at prices starting at $349, lets users boot up in the Google's Android operating system or in the Windows XP Home OS.
  
• 8-In-1 Sports GPS Debuts
  
  By Amy Gilroy, October 15, 2009
    London - Satsports announced the North American debut of what it claims is the first multi-sport all-weather GPS.
  
• iPhone Gets 2nd Video Place-Shifting App
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, October 15, 2009
  San Mateo, Calif. - Monsoon Multimedia joined Sling Media in offering a video place-shifting application for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
  
• LG Display's Fiscal Q3 Profits Almost Double
  
  By Steve Smith, October 15, 2009
  Seoul, South Korea - LG Display reported that net profits almost doubled during the fiscal third quarter based on higher demand for its LCD panels.
  
• Walmart To Stoke Q4 Cellular Competition
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, October 15, 2009
  Bentonville, Ark. - Walmart, which already sells TracFone-branded prepaid cellular on a nationwide basis, will now add Straight Talk-brand prepaid services, also provided byTracFone, on an exclusive basis beginning Oct. 18.