Seinfeld, Gates Commercials Dropped
After only two weeks on the air Microsoft has canceled its latest commercial series starring Jerry Seinfeld and the company’s founder Bill Gates. The...
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After only two weeks on the air Microsoft has canceled its latest commercial series starring Jerry Seinfeld and the company’s founder Bill Gates. The...
As we noted earlier in this space, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is now serving as a surrogate for the McCain campaign. Fiorina is...
One week after CEDIA Expo — a fine annual showcase of upscale A/V products — the news immediately moved on from large, high-ticket items...
According to a study by Pew Research, as reported by CNN.com, 97 percent of children ages 12 to 17 play video games. “Ninety-seven percent...
The research firm iSuppli provides some additional context to the day’s news: · Samsung was the world’s leading supplier of NAND-type flash memory in...
No, basketball is not being played here, at a wonderful Florida locale this week, which (almost) makes you forget that Wall Street’s leading financial...
Who would have thought people would rather connect with each other then view porn, but according to author Bill Tancer it’s true. The linked...
When Sony introduced the CP1 wireless digital photo frame to the U.S. market at CEDIA Expo, it was marketed under the Vaio brand. According...
Batten down the hatches, we may be in for some rough seas, and not just from Hurricane Ike. An oversupply of LCD panels due...
Apparently, Barack Obama thinks so. According to National Journal, the Czar would help the White House coordinate tech policy. Jim Harper at CATO says...
Master Lock has introduced an unconventional iPod case — one that I’ve never seen before. The iCage comes with a combination lock attached to...
Playing the role of the canary in the coal mine at this year’s CEDIA Expo: flat-panel mount vendors. I spent a good part of...
Despite the fact that hurricane season has hit with a seemingly relentless barrage of storms in recent days, the real-world market test for the...
“Selling sex, not specs” has been the mantra of the consumer electronics industry since the early 1980s. We would broaden the industry’s base, it...
CNN.com is reporting about the CIA and FBI’s foray into a social-networking site geared toward spies: “The program is called A-Space, and it’s a...
Microsoft should take a tip from the Republicans and Democrats. Its new ad campaign, staring Jerry Seinfeld, just launched, but the first spot, on...
CEDIA Expo has always been described as the “custom installation” show but it is a lot more than that. For dedicated custom installers and...
Round Rock, Texas — Dell is hoping to sell its collection of factories around the world, according to The Wall Street Journal. Unnamed sources...
Media Day at CEDIA Expo was awash in product introductions and pronouncements from several major CE manufacturers on Wednesday. Blu-ray, in several varieties of...
Denver — Executives with DTS Digital Entertainment and the Colorado Rockies apparently shared a similar mission here Tuesday night — expansion. Executives with the...
While the show floor of CEDIA Expo opens for business on Thursday, the first glimpses of the upscale technologies begin today, during media day...
If you are a supplier to both Brand Source and the Nationwide Marketing Group (or a member of TWICE’s staff) you could have attended...
A few days after the Democrats leave the Mile High City, custom installers, full-line manufacturers and those suppliers who specialize in upscale CE products...
Earlier this month TWICE officially rolled out its new mobile service that delivers all of the news found at www.twice.com to your portable device. We’ve...
Shortly after Russia invaded Georgia, Best Buy said it had readied the license for the Future Shop brand in Russia. International expansion has been...
You haven’t really lived until you see Roy Firestone, a broadcaster known for his ESPN series “Up Close,” do his impression of Sammy Davis...
Everyone in the CE industry knows Philo T. Farnsworth invented the television, but I had no idea he also is credited with creating the...
If you thought Kodak’s ink claims were too good to be true, well, they are true. At least according to the National Advertising Division...
In the New Republic, Bradford Plumer has a must-read on “The End of Aviation.” Sounds portentous, but it’s a fascinating look at how high...
Willy Loman would have loved this. This week, Slate’s Farhad Manjoo is declaring “The Death of Planned Obsolescence.” Manjoo was driven to this proclamation...
Stephanie Condon quoted NetChoice’s Steve DelBianco saying that states shouldn’t tax digital downloads because they’re “green.” “With global warming and a world that’s running...
I had a little problem with my Internet connection this morning. Faithful Reporter’s Notebook readers will remember that I don’t exactly view my cable...
The esteemed Dave Etchells at Imaging-Resource.com has an analysis up on the new Micro 4/3 System we reported on yesterday by Panasonic and Olympus...
The New York Sun reported that an angry Circuit City exec sent a memo to stores ordering store employees to remove the August issue...
As I’ve said before, cover the consumer electronics industry and see the world. But I didn’t know that if you covered this industry, you...
In case you are keeping score, Panasonic reminds us today that its long-running “Living In HD” promotion is still, well, running. It turns out...
The CEA has been traveling around the country highlighting the benefits of free trade. You can follow the tour on the CEA blog. If...
Of course, the hard part now begins for Sirius XM Radio. With the former rivals now one company, they will have to make a...
A new report indicates that cell phone use by pregnant mothers will create demon spawn children. Ok, that’s not exactly the up-shot of this...
Every now and then my job gives me the opportunity to do something that I think even I, a jaded journalist, thinks is really...
New York — More good news surfaced this week on the increasingly urgent mission to get all U.S. residents ready for the day analog...