D&M Rumor-Fest: Who’s Next?
Private-equity companies Bain Capital and Advantage Partners are the latest companies said to be interested in buying the 49 percent stake in D&M Holdings...
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Private-equity companies Bain Capital and Advantage Partners are the latest companies said to be interested in buying the 49 percent stake in D&M Holdings...
While it is always good news when a company posts a quarterly profit, sometimes it doesn’t tell the entire story. Such is the case...
Two former presidential candidates and the Declaration of Independence put in guest appearances here at last week’s CTIA Wireless 2008 convention. Ex-candidates John Edwards...
Seriously. Here’s the news release: Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) today announced that it has named Jennifer Cisney as the company’s first chief blogger. Cisney...
Skype has long been pushing to transform the nation’s wireless network into something akin to the POTS network — wherein any device or application...
I say no. Sorry if this upsets everyone in the industry, but I just can’t go along with the government’s plan to spend at...
Two days ago I attended a wake. During the wake my cellphone rang (well, buzzed actually.) I couldn’t answer the first call, but shortly...
Adobe has introduced a free online version of its Photoshop software called Photoshop Express, according to a TWICE story. I haven’t been able to...
Finally. After months of sitting around waiting and copy editing endless variations on “XM/Sirius Still Optimistic About Merger” stories, the Department of Justice’s approval...
Consumer electronics prices across the board will be going up this year. (Let me repeat that in italics, so you can re-read it with...
It seems as if Mark Wattles, the boss of both Wattles Capital Management and Ultimate Electronics, will have some company in trying to change...
“One of the most significant electronics products of the year.” That’s how the New York Times’ David Pogue describes Pure Digital’s Flip Camcorder. Of...
Here is another reason why car manufacturers had such a high-profile presence at International CES this year. Toyota and Panasonic are working together to...
While the Internet is a source of pre-purchase research, blogs don’t seem to have made much of an impact, according to Jupiter Research (via...
A Reuters analysis put the company’s worldwide digicam biz under the microscope. Some of the more intriguing tidbits: The company more than doubled its...
Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics, commented during last week’s media roundtable in New York that while Warren Buffett may think the economy is...
Cue the doom music. Earlier I noted the analysts at ChangeWave had some survey data on corporate IT spending that did not bode well...
According to reports from Japan, Pioneer is finalizing plans to halt production of plasma display panels (PDP) as early as this year due to...
Nike and Apple announced today that they are working with gym equipment manufacturers and health clubs to enable members to plug their iPod Nano...
PMA is reporting that the drugstore channel gained print volume market share in the fourth quarter of 2007. They grew from 27 percent in...
Here’s the headline from yesterday’s New York Times business section: “Unbound, Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write a Blunt and Unfiltered Blog.” For someone like me —...
Recently while standing in line at the customer service counter of my local Pathmark supermarket, I overheard a mom ask the sales person if...
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the HP Deskjet printer. Just to take a stroll down memory lane, the first...
Not exactly a news flash, I know. But here’s some more bad news: Digital camera sales took it on the chin in December, according...
This is hilarious. Doing some research on DECT phone safety for an upcoming story I stumbled across this from the Consumer Products Safety Commission:...
If the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD contest was a heavyweight championship fight, the boxer’s manager would have stepped in and stopped the match. In...
May I suggest futurist Ray Kurzweil? Check out some of the thoughts he offered up at the Game Developer’s Conference: As chips are progressively...
On their company blog, Skype noted today that their users have placed 100 billion minutes worth of free Skype-to-Skype calls thus far. Then there’s...
Can the radiation in a DECT cordless phone kill you? That appears to be the upshot of this report out of Europe. We’ll have...
There will be plenty of post-mortems on the end of the format war, but for now let’s point out what did not happen: broadband-delivered...
Sometimes you have to read between the lines. Just because an item is all over the media doesn’t mean it’s a news story, even...
I’ve had Found magazine bookmarked since I first surfed across it a few months ago. I’m not sure why it’s compelling to view things...
CES still seems like it happened a week or so ago. But we are in the middle of February, and the way the economy...
Coming to a Circuit City near you. Samsung’s SGR-A1. What’s next? Will Samsung be bought out by Skynet? I love the fact that the...
Here is a very instructive story concerning a Best Buy customer that was posted on MSNBC. The woman filing the $54 million suit against...
Verizon is not taking VoIP lying down. First, TWICE sister publication Multichannel News is reporting that Time Warner, Comcast and Bright House Networks have...
There’s too much technology in the car — dangerous technology that can kill drivers, pointed out a front-page article in the New York Times...
After International CES, walking the show floor at PMA is almost a Zen-like experience. Shorter cab lines, no monitors being shut off, all quite...
Everyone seems to agree that consumers need to do a better job of securing their photos. And everyone knows that hoary business cliché that...
Skimming the industry-related figures for 2007 and forecasts for 2008, it looks like another year of growth for the imaging industry — macroeconomic setbacks...
According to a blog posting on the VH1 Best Week Ever site, a San Diego Best Buy created a makeshift display filled with movies...
Las Vegas — Yours truly always complains during International CES to anyone who will listen about how I’m too busy to make booth appointments...