Executive Insight

As a child, I would often go shopping with my Godmother, who lived with my Grandmother and helped her around the house (and with...

The debate on who makes the best tablet is a hot topic these days, especially after the recent releases of the Motorola Xoom, Samsung...

Most accounts say there are 70 million or so of the original 79 million Boomers born during the Baby Boom years, 1946-64 still alive....

All the tech blogs and pundits are beating their drums about the potential launch of the iPad 2 on Wednesday. Assuming that is what...

Dinosaurs. VHS. The netbook? On the surface, netbook manufacturers including Acer, Samsung, Asustek, and HP all reported a leap in the right direction last...

At Google’s Android Honeycomb event on Wednesday, we got to experience the Android-based tablet’s hardware and software using the Motorola Xoom. The user interface...

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...

Reorienting to the Reality of the Market. For today’s consumer electronics manufacturers, it’s no longer a question of whether or not to have a...

The following appeared in the Jan. 12 online edition of Home Media Magazine. “Netflix said it is halting a two-year-old program with Facebook that...

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 –...