TWICE News

• iPhone Sales Opened Up To Best Buy
  
  By Joseph Palenchar, August 13, 2008
  Minneapolis — Best Buy stores will become the first and only stores other than stores operated by Apple and AT&T to offer the Apple iPhone.
  
• RadioShack Looks To Raise $325M
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 12, 2008
  UPDATE! Fort Worth, Texas — RadioShack will offer $325 million in convertible senior notes to institutional investors.
  
• JVC To Offer Warranty Coverage Through Warrantech
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 12, 2008
  Wayne, N.J. — JVC has signed a two-year contract with Warrantech Consumer Product Services to provide extended-service coverage for the company’s consumer products over the JVC web site.
  
• Capitol Sales Expands Tech Sales, Design Team
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 12, 2008
  St. Paul, Minn. — Capitol Sales has expanded its technical sales and design team.
  
• Circuit City Enhances Web Presence While Larger Issues Loom
  
  By Alan Wolf, August 12, 2008
  Richmond, Va. — Circuit City has enhanced its online presence but the announcements were overshadowed by a 4-percent drop in its share price yesterday and by an analyst report forecasting a rough road ahead.
  
• Canon Adds Pixma All-in-Ones
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 12, 2008
  Lake Success, N.Y. — Canon added two new multifunction printers to its Pixma lineup this week.
  
• Kingston Bows 32GB SDHC Card
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 12, 2008
  Fountain Valley, Calif. — Flash-memory marketer Kingston said it would ship 32GB SDHC cards to dealers this month.
  
• Fujifilm Adds HD Video Recording To Holiday Camera
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 12, 2008
  Valhalla, N.Y. — Fujifilm bolstered its holiday line, due to ship in September, with its first digital camera to record HD movies.
  
• Car Internet Debuts From Chrysler
  
  by Amy Gilroy, August 12, 2008
  Auburn Hills, Mich. — Chrysler will become the first car maker to offer Internet capability Aug. 25, when its parts division begins selling a Mopar car cellular/Wi-Fi hot spot, expected to be the first of many Internet offerings from the car companies.
  
• H20 Audio Intros Waterproof iPod Armbands
  
  By Lisa Johnston, August 12, 2008
  San Diego — H2O Audio, a manufacturer of wearable iPod accessories, has introduced a line of waterproof MP3 player protection.
  
• Wellikoff Joins Sooloos As COO
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 12, 2008
  New York — Sooloos, a manufacturer of premium networked home entertainment systems, has named Peter Wellikoff as its COO
  
• Small Screens Shake Up PDP Market
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 12, 2008
   Portland, Ore. — Unit sales of smaller-sized plasma TVs moved the category during the second quarter.
  
• PC Tools Bows 2009 Software Lineup
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 11, 2008
  San Francisco — PC Tools has released its 2009 software lineup, which includes its Internet Security 2009, Spyware Doctor and Spyware Doctor with AntiVirus 6, Registry Mechanic 8, and Desktop Maestro 3.
  
• Canon Ups Capacity in New Camcorders
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 11, 2008
  Lake Success, N.Y. — Canon will ship new models in its Vixia line of high-definition, flash-memory and hard-disk-drive camcorders to dealers in September.
  
• PowerFilm Adds Solar-Powered USB Charger To Line
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 11, 2008
  Ames, Iowa — PowerFilm has added to its line of PowerFilm Solar portable charger product line, with a USB and AA battery solar charger.
  
• IASCA Moves Championships To Spring Break
  
  by Amy Gilroy, August 11, 2008
  Daytona Beach, Fla. — Following the cancellation last month of the NOPI (Number One Parts, Inc.) Nationals motorsports event, the IASCA sound-off competition group said it would hold its annual finals instead at the Spring Break Nationals (SBN) starting March 2009.
  
• Premier Video Teaches Flat-Panel TV Mounting
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 11, 2008
  Anaheim, Calif. — Premier Mounts has created and made available online an instructional video aimed at do-it-yourselfers who want to learn how to mount their flat-panel TV.
  
• D&H To Highlight Niche Products At CEDIA
  
  By TWICE Staff, August 11, 2008
  Harrisburg, Pa. — D&H Distributing representatives will be on hand at the CEDIA Expo to meet with custom installers and explain how installers can increase revenues incrementally by selling niche market products to enhance a user’s home entertainment systems.
  
• Best Buy Testing Airport Vending Machines
  
  By Alan Wolf, August 11, 2008
  Minneapolis — Best Buy will begin testing CE vending machines in 12 U.S. airports this month.
  
• Hitachi Releases New Blu-ray Camcorder
  
  By Greg Scoblete, August 11, 2008
  Chula Vista, Calif. – Hitachi will ship a new Blu-ray Disc camcorders to dealers in September.