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How Turnkey Aftersales Solutions Open Doors For Smartphone OEMs
There is now a mobile device out there for every type of customer, ranging from the adventurous to the cost-conscious and the luxury-seeker. Thanks...
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Unlocking Growth With The Right Payment Options
Here’s a newsflash: Money and the way that we use it are changing right in front of our eyes. Businesses have taken notice. In...
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Verizon Wireless Fighting Back
Verizon Wireless has long contended it wouldn’t be dragged into the price-war mud, but it has stepped cautiously into the mud up to its...
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Sorry Rubio. Amazon Isn’t The Largest Retailer In The World
In last night’s GOP Debate on Fox, U.S. State Senator and Republican candidate Marco Rubio said Amazon is the country’s and the world’s largest...
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Subscription Commerce: Reshaping The Future of CE Retail
Consumers are increasingly foregoing the security of owning things for the affordable flexibility of on-demand access – and according to Goldman Sachs, millennials are...
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Bill Nye Reads Mean Tweets
Bill Nye the Science Guy is the center of a Kickstarter campaign by two fans who intend to make a movie about the science...
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A Letter To Logitech’s Competitors
When a company makes major changes to its brand it usually signifies a strategic shift in direction. This can be triggered by numerous things,...
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Music Industry Grooving On Vinyl
The unexpected revival of vinyl record sales is having a residual effect on the healthiness of local, independent record stores, and a music industry...
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IoT’s Missing Link
There were thousands of new products and innovations introduced at this year’s CES – many within the connected-life segment of the Internet of Things...
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Eli Manning & Tony Romo Are The New Rob Lowe
DirecTV was forced to kill its popular Rob Lowe commercial campaign back in April when the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better...
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Why Neil Young And Taylor Swift Don’t Matter
Neil Young is the latest major music act to pull his catalog from streaming services such as Spotify, Pandora and Apple Music. Young’s anti-streaming...
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New Take On Old TV/DVD Players
Compact TV/DVD players for the bedroom were big deals back in the ’90s, and now one company is updating the concept to reflect 2015...
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Retail Lessons From Harrods
My wife and I just returned from our first visit to London, to attend a college graduation and sightsee, and we made it over...
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The First Phase Of Robotics In The Home
New research from Parks Associates reports that more than 6 percent of U.S. broadband homes currently own a robotic vacuum cleaner and adoption will exceed 11...
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Consumers Suffering From Smartphone Ennui?
U.S. consumers aren’t getting as excited as they used to about buying a new smartphone, Argus Insights contended, and that could mean trouble for...
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The Best Tweets Dissing Amazon’s PrimeDay
To say today’s much-hyped ZOMG!-better-than-Black-Friday Amazon PrimeDay event was disappointing to Prime Members may be an understatement, at least if the Twitter world is...
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Predictions About Amazon Prime Day
Amazon plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its launch with Prime Day, which will offer Prime members a series of flash deals from...
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Collaboration Is Key With IoT
For many years, members of this industry have been wary about sharing their intellectual property with others. They believed doing so would jeopardize their...
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Pioneer: Why We Need CarPlay, Android Auto
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will make the roads safer, Pioneer contends in releasing the results of a survey of more than 2,000 consumers...
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What’s In A Name
I have spoken to many tech founders recently and have noticed a trend worth talking about for a moment. The discussion generally happens as...
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Going All-In To Combat Cellular Confusion
Understanding a phone bill wasn’t easy back when the landline-phone monopoly calculated the price of a call by something called message units. It hasn’t...
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Talk To The Tablet
Let me set the scene: Philadelphia airport, F concourse, Friday afternoon and I am heading home after a long week of training. I had...
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Tech Commercials Among Those Honored At Cannes
I’m a sucker for a good commercial. The Oscars of the advertising world were given out this weekend in Cannes, France, at the 2015...
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Android Auto, Apple CarPlay: One Head Unit Is Better Than Two
Stuffing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto into the same head unit makes sense, so much so that automakers and aftermarket suppliers are ramping up...
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Gay Marriage Gets Support From Tech & Retail
Today’s landmark decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the legality of same-sex marriage was the culmination of decades of struggle. And, in the...
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An 84-Inch TV Review … From 1975
In a recent effort to get rid of clutter, files and whatever around our home — and when you live someplace for 30 years...
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2nd Half Upbeat As Consumers, Trade Embrace New Tech
As we look back at the last six months and turn to toward the second half, there are plenty of hopeful signs for the...
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GetGeeked San Francisco
Last week I attended GetGeeked here in San Francisco. If you’re not familiar, GetGeeked is like a consumer tech meet-up with drinks and food....
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Pitching Sam’s Club: An Insider’s Account
In this week’s issue of TWICE we reported on a novel sourcing program that Sam’s Club launched last year in its quest for novel,...
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You Break It? No Problem. Fuhu Answers Parents’ Wishes
Because I cover CE toys, I’m often asked what I think is the best tablet for a child. The scenario typically goes something like...
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10 Surprising Things We Learned From Our Father’s Day Survey
When it comes to Father’s Day gifts, power tools, neckties and whiskey are bound to be high on most dads’ wish lists. Or are...
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Why (And How) Retailers Should Embrace ‘Nomophobia’
People are addicted to their smartphones. So much so, there is now a clinical term for the psychological attachment some people have to their...
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Pomp And Circumspection
So here’s my question: When is your son or daughter old enough for a cellphone? In the town I live in in New Jersey,...
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The Internet Of Things: What’s Old Is New Again
You think the Internet of Things (IoT) is something new? Think again. Back in the 80s when cellular was young and analog, and before...
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The Times They Are A-Changin.’ Finally.
A confluence of key retail events this month – the annual ProSource Spring Meeting in San Antonio and Walmart’s shareholders’ gathering in Arkansas –...
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Is Your Brand The Charm Or The Bracelet?
“We want to be Apple.” There is no sentence we fear more in our business than this. It’s our version of “Make the logo...
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The Debut, And Disconnect, Of CES Asia
Ni hao from Shanghai! I’m writing from the first-ever CES Asia, where about 25,000 attendees, a vast majority from China and other Asia Pacific...
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‘Thread,’ ‘Weave’ Leave Me In Stitches
If anything, the folks in the home-automation business are a clever bunch when it comes to naming their technologies. Google calls its new IoT...
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Changing Role Of Buying Groups Takes Another Turn
When I started to write about how buying groups have changed I realized it is thirty years this spring since I attended my first...
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Some Staggering Statistics About Our Technology World
While CES Asia was light on news and heavy on schmooze, many of the keynoters and speakers shared proprietary data on the staggering size...
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Dealing With Disruption
The widespread impact from the labor dispute at West Coast ports earlier this year is still rippling through the U.S. economy, with many companies...
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The 10 Worst Retail Sales Habits And How To Break Them
We’ve all tried to spend more hours at the gym, or give up sugary drinks, but as anyone who’s ever tried knows, bad habits...