GE Majap Deal No Surprise To Industry New York — GE’s long-rumored plan to offload its venerable major appliance business didn’t come as a surprise to industry observers.
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Montreal — Classe Audio plans June shipments of its first home theater preamp/processor with HDMI connections, 10-channel output, and a swappable DSP module.
Columbia, Md. — While it is impractical for many retail stores to install exterior antennas to demonstrate live HD-Radio reception, HD-Radio developer iBiquity Digital has devised a solution to get around the problem.
Santa Ana, Calif. — EchoStar Thursday won a hard-fought legal battle with News Corp.’s NDS America’s Group, but the comapny was awarded only $1,500 in statutory damages instead of the $1 billion it had sought.
Somerset, N.J. — Royal Consumer Electronics unveiled five new compact digital frames today, putting digital photo displays on a keychain, fridge, bill clip, note pad and a cup.
Dallas — Jim Keyes, Blockbuster chairman/CEO, outlined some plans for its potential acquisition of Circuit City during a quarterly conference call this morning.
Round Rock, Texas — Dell has made a commitment to increase the energy efficiency of its desktops and laptops by designing them to consume 25 percent less energy by 2010, relative to systems offered today.
VIEWPOINT Steve Smith, Editor-in-Chief, April 23, 2008 Eye Opener At Samsung Event
Yesterday I was pleased to attend the kickoff press conference for this year’s ... More
TWICE On The Scene: PRO Group The stars came out over the Hyatt Regency resort here and top vendors hobnobbed with a plethora of PRO Group members on Tuesday evening, here, to kick of the group’s annual spring meeting.
Spring RetailVision 2008 Highlights from Spring RetailVision which took place last week in Orlando, Fla.
TWICE On The Scene: CEA Washington Forum CE execs, Congressmen and policy advisers and makers CEA's annual Washington Forum to discuss free trade, HDTV and DTV labeling and the annual Digital Patriots awards dinner.
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Cellular Gains As Sole Home Phone
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Cellphones are gaining on analog landline and VoIP phones as the only phones in the house, a Harris I...