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LAS VEGAS — International CES is usually a venue for plenty of product awards, generating a lot of positive press, but CNET, owned by CBS Corp., disqualified Dish’s Hopper with Sling due to “active litigation involving our parent company.”
CNET said on its site: “We will no longer be reviewing products manufactured by companies with which we are in litigation with respect to such product.”
Dish and CBS is in litigation regarding Hopper’s Prime Time Any Time and the AutoHop commercial-skipping features.
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LAS VEGAS — Beats Electronics named Ian Rogers CEO and announced a new music service known as Project Daisy.
Rogers will report to Beats CEO and co-founder Jimmy Iovine and president/COO Luke Wood. Rogers will also step into the leadership position at MOG, the streaming music service Beats acquired in 2012.
Project Daisy is set to launch in late 2013 as a stand-alone company under the Beats Electronics umbrella.
LAS VEGAS — The annual Monster Retailer Awards drew an overflow crowd to the Ballroom of the Paris Hotel, where Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys wowed it with a, well, monster live performance.
Before the concert kicked off, head monster Noel Lee presented the company's Most Monstrous Awards to its best-performing retail partners of the previous year, with the top honor, the Gold Award, going to Australian CE chain Harvey Norman.
This year’s winners, by category, were as follows:
LAS VEGAS — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to open up additional wireless spectrum for unlicensed use to avoid the risk of running headlong into a “Wi-Fi wall,” FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Wednesday.
During a One On One session with CEA president Gary Shapiro, Genachowski said the commission plans to launch proceedings next month to set aside an additional 195MHz of bandwidth in the 5GHz band for Wi-Fi use, expanding the 5GHz Wi-Fi band by 35 percent.
Panasonic was represented by, from left, Joe Taylor, Betty Noonan, Kazuhiro Tsuga and Peter Fannon.
From left, CEA's Glenda MacMullin, Pat Lavelle of Voxx International, CEA's Karen Chupka and Patty Lavelle
Atlantic's Leo Dardashti, right, with CE Hall of Famer Bernie Appel.
Julie Wright, left, and Cindy Eri of e-World Online with Engadget's Tim Stevens.
Mike Vitelli and Laura Bishop of Best Buy.
From left, CEA's Christine Franca, Nicole Vidovich-Parker and Susan Littleton
CEA Industry Forum met at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco to discuss the economy, politic and so
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Some sights from the floor of Brand Source 2010, held at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel.
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Indianapolis - The Home Technology Specialists of America (HTSA) held its first public event on the
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Some of the biggest names in the CE and appliance trades convened at the Ritz-Carlton here this mont
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INDIANAPOLIS - CEDIA Expo returned to its traditional venue here in Indiana with enormous cakes shap
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New York - Apple's introduction of its third-generation iPad last week was followed within minut
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Some of the hot products in the news for the week of Feb. 27.
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Home Entertainment Source (HES) is holding its annual spring Summit meeting and buy fair Feb. 26-29
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A look at the design and merchandising of downtown Manhattan's new J&R Jr. boutique, a baby
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Some of the hot products in the news for the week of Feb. 20.
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Some of the hot products in the news for the week of Feb. 13.
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A quick look at the products in the news for the week of Feb. 6.
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) held its 15th annual CEO Summit, for the first time in Eu
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Photos from the Anti-Defamation League's national consumer technology industry group annual trib
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NEW YORK - The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), owner of the 2012 International CES, outlined
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Edison, N.J. - Among its many attributes, Newegg.com is renowned for its fulfillment efficiency.
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LAS VEGAS — Soul Electronics, the headphones manufacturer helmed by rapper Ludacris, used International CES to launch its Tim Tebow line and had Tebow himself unveil the line at a press conference on Thursday at the Venetian.
Tebow skillfully side-stepped questions about his current NFL status — one of the models is named the Jet, which, as Tebow pointed out, really refers to its designated audience, the business traveler.
LAS VEGAS – In a frank, passionate and unscripted keynote address, Pandora co-founder/chief strategy officer Tim Westergren recounted the iffy start and meteoric rise of his wildly popular streaming music service at the CEA’s annual Leaders in Technology Dinner (LIT) Wednesday night at the Wynn.
LAS VEGAS – Sakar International celebrated here Wednesday the 75th Anniversary of its Vivitar brand, which Sakar founder Charles Sakar rescued from oblivion after the previous owner, Syntax-Brillian collapsed in 2008.
Since that time, Sakar International has reinvented the brand with an expanding portfolio of products for the mass market, including the new Vivitar Action camcorder (DVR785HD), designed as a high value alternative to Go-Pro HD models.
LAS VEGAS – ProSource, the BrandSource buying group’s specialty A/V and custom install division, held its annual CES eve reception here at Bally’s Monday night.
The umbrella group for independent CE dealers is comprised of the Progressive Retailers Organization (PRO Group) and Home Entertainment Source (HES).
In brief remarks, PRO and ProSource president/COO Dave Workman said the group was happy to put 2012 behind it, and eBay VP Michael Jones reminded members of the online opportunities his company offers through its cyber storefronts.
Las Vegas – I have to hand it to Huawei, the Chinese cellphone and tablet maker. They know how to handle the crowds of reporters, bloggers and others who jam into overcrowded rooms to hear the latest product announcements from major CE companies.
Unlike some other companies who held press conferences – now called media events -- at the Mandalay Bay on Monday, Huawei kept tabs of the number of RSVPs it received before the show, then found that more people would show up than its room could accommodate.
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