Executive Insight

It was one of dozens of otherwise innocuous and usually ignored CES appointment queries. Apparently Polaroid Eyewear, an unfamiliar company with a familiar name,...

“There will be nearly 50 million 3DTV displays sold worldwide in 2015, up from just over 3 million in 2010, according to one forecast.”...

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

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...

Surviving as a small consumer electronics business in today’s economy is not an easy task. With increasing competition, limited resources and technologies continuously evolving,...

NPD has released its Consumer Technology Black Friday week sales data, and based on my analysis I think the most reasonable conclusion is to...

About 2 ½ years ago, I faced the painful conclusion that too few of my planning clients were achieving their planning goals.  I say...

It was an otherwise innocuous press release: Display Search noted “3D TV Not Growing as Fast as TV Makers Expected in 2010,” the company...

Advertisers should be grateful for a small bone TiVo tossed its way. The Alviso, Calif., company’s newest digital video recorder, TiVo Premiere, enables the...

Having just returned from my annual Black Friday morning shopping trip I am struggling to suppress a yawn. Not just because I got up...

In a typically bad reference to very good Shakespeare NPD’s recently completed Wireless Printing Survey (and HP’s Innovation event a couple of months ago...

Stephen Baker, Vice President, Industry Analysis  NPD has released the second in its series of iPad surveys. While the first looked at buying intentions...

In the late ’90s, Harvard professor/author Clayton Christensen wrote “The Innovator’s Dilemma” in which he described “sustaining” and “disruptive” innovation.  The first typically comes...

Stephen Baker is The NPD Group’s vice president of industry analysis. Please visit The NPD Group’s main blog page . The last few weeks...

A manufacturer’s website is their single most important marketing tool. This isn’t hyperbole. This is the current reality. The retail world for consumer durable...

Stephen Baker is The NPD Group’s Vice President, Industry Analysis Microsoft released the consumer version of Office 2010 to retail a few weeks ago,...

Lou Pagliarini is consumer electronics and appliances VP of GE Money  There are many signs of encouragement for electronics dealers including  a stabilizing housing...

Mark Rowan is president of Griffin Technology Since it was announced in January, the mainstream and technical press have spent thousands of pages on...

Ted Hoy is VP of product at Digital River  The e-commerce experience is all about taking the shopping environment to the consumer instead of...

Consumer electronics merchants across the nation are currently part of a proposed antitrust class action lawsuit by merchants against Visa, MasterCard and their member...

Accenture has identified five great growth markets in the consumer electronics industry. Consumer electronics companies would be likely to boost revenues and profits and...

A warning to HP and other PC companies with the upcoming Slate tablet PC and other post-iPad tablet PCs: Stop trying to sell your...

Michael O’Hara is CEO Consensus Advisors A goal of The Big Story is to relate a major news event from the prior week to...

Mark Rowan is president, Griffin Technology As is the case with any disruptive technology, the birth and growth of the iPod spawned a multi-billion...

It is a well-known fact that when a customer is happy, they will tell at least three people. On the other hand, it has...

John Marshall, Chairman of WirelessHD With a myriad of new devices now available to consumers and the excitement surrounding wireless consumer electronics (CE), solid...

Richard Glikes is executive director of Home Specialists of America. When new technology enters the market specialists lead the way. They give the consumer...

So where in the world is there still analog TV? Well, lots of places. Only in select Western European countries and the U.S. has...

It’s no longer just for the big shots ensconced in expensively equipped board rooms. High-speed IP networks, low-cost web cams and improved video compression...

Lou Pagliarini, Vice President, Consumer Electronics & Appliances Industry VP, GE MoneyIf you’re unaware of The Credit CARD (Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure) Act of...

Paul Jacobs, President and COO of Klipsch Group, Inc. I have often pondered this question. After all, when reflecting back on bygone eras –...

Those of us on the East Coast were buried this past weekend in a monumental December snowstorm leading some to fear that holiday sales...

By some estimates the number of U.S. independent A/V car and home dealers is less than 70 percent of what it was 10 years...

I once again have completed my annual Black Friday store observation trip throughout Northern Virginia. Usually I can walk away and say either this...

This year I attended both IFA in Berlin and CEATEC in Japan to promote SiBEAM and WirelessHD, as well as to keep my finger...

As Windows 7 begins its assault on the consumer retail marketplace today, so far, despite a few questionable decisions, the marketing, merchandising, and retail...

The 2009 ENERGY STAR Appliance Partner Meeting The 10th annual Energy Star Appliance Partner Meeting drew a record number (more than 200 in all)...

To date, wireless systems have played a small role in the distribution of HD video content within the home. This is in stark contrast...

In today’s market, no company can afford to lose customers due to lack of focus on critical touch points, including customer support. In the...

OK, you purchased traffic counters, had them installed in your stores and started collecting data -you may even have some interesting graphs and charts...