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By: Stewart Wolpin |

Glasses-free 3D Still Years (and Years) Away

Do TV manufacturers not want 3D to succeed?Just before Thanksgiving, I noted how 3D HDTV makers couldn’t get retail 3D demos straight. Just before CES, I

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By: Stephen Baker |

Further Confirmation

Best Buy’s poor results today are not a glimpse into the future but a mirror into the past.

As we have been saying for much of 2010 this year is

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By: J Habegger |

Is Ecommerce Hijacking Your Marketing Budget?

I recently sat down with a senior media executive at an ad agency servicing one of the large national retailers. While talking about 2011 marketing objectives and

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By: Lou Pagliarini |

Consumer Credit As Marketing Tool

Lou Pagliarini is consumer electronics and appliances VP of GE Money 

There are many signs of encouragement for electronics dealers including

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By: Stephen Baker |

Fighting The Installed Base Battle

Stephen Baker is The NPD Group’s Vice President, Industry Analysis

Microsoft released the consumer version of Office 2010 to retail a few

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By: J Habegger |

The Online Path-To-Purchase

A manufacturer’s website is their single most important marketing tool. This isn’t hyperbole. This is the current reality.

The retail world for

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By: Stephen Baker |

Reading Tea Leaves From An Empty Cup

Stephen Baker is The NPD Group’s vice president of industry analysis. Please visit The NPD Group’s

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By: Bill Matthies |

Innovation: The Need to be Different

In the late ’90s, Harvard professor/author Clayton Christensen wrote “The Innovator’s Dilemma” in which he described “sustaining

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By: Stephen Baker |

I Own An iPad, So What Do I do With It?

Stephen Baker, Vice President, Industry Analysis 

NPD has released the second in its series of iPad surveys. While the first looked at buying

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By: Stewart Wolpin |

Why Consumers Want Connected TV

Stewart Wolpin is a blogger for DTC

Thanks to a wave of connected TVs, media streamer set-top boxes and

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