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A study is purporting that “cyberslacking” might not be as rampant as managers would like to believe, and that attempting to curtail personal use...

As the world comes to grips with the new protocols of political correctness, those engaged in the business affairs of TV displays — and...

Nobody is going to carry home a 40-inch LCD on their bicycle, but it wouldn’t be a bad idea to put out a small...

Yep, nobody will ever pay for digitally downloaded music.  From Apple: Music fans have now purchased and downloaded more than five billion songs from...

Washington, D.C. – If you believe government/industry studies, all seems to be going well in DTV Transition-land. Some interesting tidbits were recently released by...

Digital camera tip of the day: don’t bring them into a nuclear reactor – An emergency shutdown of a reactor at the Indian Point...

I had no idea Intel made photovoltaic solar cells, but Intel announced it is spinning this business off under the name SpectraWatt. Intel will...

Who would have thought people still went online using a dial-up connection? But they must. AOL still has its old landline-based business, but perhaps...

So says Pike & Fischer Broadband Advisory Services:  Pike & Fischer asked some 280 executives, engineers, and consultants from the cable, phone, satellite TV,...

First we brought you word of the pet urn that doubles as a digital frame. Now, the newest in cutting-edge mortuary technology — the...

There’s a gathering tomorrow in downtown San Francisco that everyone in the industry, and everyone who buys CE products, should be happy about. It’s...

Check out www.howispentmystiumulus.com. In the CE category, video games, laptops, an iPhone and a Flip Ultra video camera made the list. In the non-CE...

Here’s an unexpected marketing hook for the Eye-Fi wireless SD card. From the Photography blog: Owner Alison DeLauzon logged onto her Eye-Fi account after...

Last week I blogged about the so-called return of vinyl. The AP has a story today (featured on CNN.com) reporting that some CE retailers,...

Rolling Stone’s latest issue features an article about the “comeback” of vinyl. I put comeback in quotes because, as the writer, David Browne, states,...

It’s wireless safety week. I know, I know, it seems to come faster every year.  I’ve always felt that cellphones get a bum rap...

Apparently, some folks out in white goods land have interpreted GE’s planned divestiture of its majap division as a going-out-of-business sale. Dave Bilas, sales...

With gas and food prices arching ever skyward, retailers are embracing coupons as a way to entice that discretionary dollar, according to CNN Money....

NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has a mini-DVD attached to its hull. According to NASA, “The mini-DVD from the Planetary Society contains a message to future...

I admit to not seeing this coming: an urn for pet remains that doubles as a 7-inch digital photo frame. It has 256MB of...

Mr. Cover teaches reading at Fox Meadow Intermediate Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas. One of his lessons involves students writing consumer product reviews – a...

One in five households has never used email, according to Parks Associates. Can you imagine life without email? I think it would look something...

According to the National Federation of Retailers, consumers are going to spend most of the tax rebate on gas and groceries, not goodies. Rebate...

I read with great interest today TWICE Editor Alan Wolf’s report that Blockbuster and billionaire investor Carl Icahn may be offered the chance to...

CNN.com is running a story about the popularity of unlocked, and expensive, iPhones in Israel. From the article:  “Z-Tov sells the 8GB iPhone for...

Toshiba will start shipping a micro-sized nuclear reactor for use by small towns or individual buildings later this year. In fact, the company intends...

I have always felt that the Grand Theft Auto video game series not only adds little to our society, but in fact is terribly...

A sad story out of Canada, apparently a family dialed 911 over their VoIP line when their toddler was in distress. They were told...

USA Today quotes some experts to that effect:  “You could buy a lot of crayons for $60,” says Susan Linn, director of the children’s...

 The Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) economist Shawn DuBravac notes that about 20 percent of consumers plan to spend some portion of their forthcoming tax...

Cloud computing is all the rage these days. Microsoft is working on a program to connect your personal data across a multitude of platforms....

Rich Tehrani (via DSLreports) hears rumors that Google will purchase Skype from eBay. Aside from that, Tehrani offers some interesting ways that Skype could...

Like the swallows at Capistrano, or more precisely the dandelions on my lawn, the chorus of investors and analyst types calling for GE to...

We’re all familiar with the trajectory here: Every year flash-memory speeds get speedier. Now it seems the CompactFlash card, used in many consumer and...

Slate’s Mickey Kaus sees diabolical ingenuity at work in the rollout of Windows Vista.

IBM says their experimental “Racetrack” memory could be it, in ten years or so. Hit the link for details. Short version: it has all...