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If reports out of Japan this week prove correct, the industry may be losing a pair of powerful players in the plasma TV category....

As we wait to see how Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin will handle the company’s looming debt payments, including one that comes due on...

John Siracusa has a great piece on the subject here. To set the table: The pace of the e-book market over the past decade...

Acquiring another $125 million or so of Sirius XM debt could give EchoStar chairman and CEO Charlie Ergen enough ownership in Sirius to gain...

Picking on the government is almost as easy as poking fun at “Star Wars” nerds, but just for giggles read through the actual DTV...

A writer at the Las Vegas Review Journal asked his readers if they thought International CES should be open to the public. Not surprisingly,...

Here are some late Friday thoughts on this week’s news in car electronics.  Sirius XM: You may have heard that Charlie Ergen, CEO of EchoStar,...

When it comes to the DTV transition, James Richter of Atlanta has his priorities straight. He can’t find a regular job, and he’s given...

Microsoft founder, and current philanthropist, Bill Gates released a swarm of mosiquitos during the 2009 Technology, Entertainment, Design conference to help make a point about...

We’ve all read the stories about how Wal-Mart locks its workers inside its stores, hires illegal aliens and basically treats its employees almost as...

OK, after the recent onslaught of 3-D TV demos at International CES, the much-hyped airing of a 3-D ad during the Super Bowl and...

Stores owned by wireless carriers are becoming one-stop shops for consumers’ residential and mobile telecommunications needs.  That trend was reinforced by Verizon Wireless when...

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) (and I understand if I lost you right there, non-New York-area readers) has authored a House bill called the Camera...

I’m no merchandise manager, but I’ve often wondered why manufacturers with more than one core competency don’t do more to leverage their multi-category strengths...

Canon wants their workers to leave early (5:30) so they can make babies: In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant...

In 2008, the number of single-family housing starts approached levels not seen since 1945. Go ahead. Read it again. We were crossing the bridge...

Two weeks ago, the DECT Forum issued a statement saying that the technology was secure, despite a demonstration by hackers to the opposite effect. ...

It continues to amaze me how every one in the world seems to be acutely aware of the global economic meltdown, except the professional...

I was sorry to hear that the annual KnowledgeFest trade gathering was cancelled this year, but I wasn’t that surprised. The budgets of small...

Interesting article by Matthew Daneman in the Rochester Democrat about Kodak’s film business: All Kodak’s film capture products are in decline, “but all are...

A new Neilsen survey revealed Thursday had both good news and bad news for the controversial Feb. 17 transition to all-digital TV broadcasting. First...

Warning! TVs and big pieces of furniture could tip over and hurt someone, so you better be careful. That’s the message, more or less,...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is investigating Comcast over allegations that its network management practices are degrading the quality of third-party VoIP providers (such...

Everyone knows of David Letterman’s Top 10 list, but what the show also hosts is a weekly online contest allowing viewers to suggest their...

One of TWICE’s Talkback-ers tipped us off that there’s a Facebook group known as the “Tweeter Survivors Support Group.” As of this writing, it...

Here’s a “convergence” idea that seems to make sense: combining an amplified speaker and a lighting fixture into one surface- or flush-mount fixture whose...