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According to a blog posting on the VH1 Best Week Ever site, a San Diego Best Buy created a makeshift display filled with movies...
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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...
Co-opting your opponents is how successful politicians ensure their legacy. It’s also how industries can defend themselves against their critics. The consumer electronics industry...
According to The New York Times, on Tuesday The Federal Trade Commission held its first hearing in a series focused on green marketing and...
If you remember the byline above, you’ve been in the industry for more years than you might care to remember. So it came as...
I, for one, don’t want to cheer when I read that the music industry continues to founder. Really, I’m not that vindictive. Then I...
Here’s an easy way to spread some New Year’s cheer this year: Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), a non-partisan organization for veterans...
We received this note from Jim Noyd this morning: Don Bouchard, executive VP of sales and marketing at Ultralink/XLO Products, was involved in a...
I asked our web editor Doug Olenick the other day to provide me with lists of the top stories and blogs that you, our...
I hate to disagree with my fellow tech journalist/blogger Stewart Wolpin, but I have no problem understanding why people by the millions are buying...
The news of sluggish holiday sales has The New Yorker’s James Surowiecki writing about the “steady erosion of a retailers’ power.” It’s worth quoting...
Another year has just flown by in the electronics/appliance industries. The speed with which things change in one year in this business is illustrated...
NetZero Voice from United Communications has left the building. In a 2006 report, the research firm Telephia placed them fifth among pure-play VoIP providers...
A software firm called Enoetic has created a program called Photology that can recognize distinct elements within a photo for easier retrieval. I’ve not...
Talk about great moments in customer service. Linksys got into a bit of hot water recently when the “help” line listed in one of...
Car stereo suppliers may want to take note of a new trend cropping up in Queens, N.Y. Teen boys are cobbling together 3,000-watt car...
Google not only understands that green is good, but its potential as a profit generator could dwarf what it is has made on the...
As if the media didn’t have enough to digest from Thanksgiving shopping mania, today they’re all over “Cyber Monday” like gravy on mashed potatoes....
Here is a quick snapshot of what transpired on Black Friday in N.Y. City. (And here are some actual snapshots.) On Black Friday, consumers...
I’m a pretty good gardener and I can usually figure out when my houseplants need water, but for the green-thumbed-challenged among us, there is...
For the consumer electronics industry, and for those of us who cover it, this time of year through January’s International CES is usually the...
The massive increase in interest in all things video online these days has TWICE in the market for CE industry related video. You may...
Google directions will soon be available at the gas pumps, it was announced Nov. 8 by a maker of gas pumps here, called Gilbarco...
So I’m potty shopping at Babies “R” Us last night when I stumble upon … digital cameras, portable GPS systems, iPod speakers and several...
Maybe this happened because it is the “Trick or Treat” season. Some of us seem to find out about the dirty little secrets of...
Today maybe Halloween, but this isn’t a trick. Instead, we hope that for regular visitors to TWICE.com it will be a treat … or...
Does Amazon.com owe its profits to a massive tax-payer subsidy? That’s the argument from economist Dean Baker. According to Baker: While most stores must...
Credit Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press, who came up a cartoon featuring a banner in front of a house with this phony...
In our coverage of the ongoing wildfires in Southern California yesterday, we contacted plenty of companies with consumer electronics operations in the region. One...
The research firm IDC polled 500 digital camera owners for their thoughts on “wireless imaging.” The poll and resultant report was sponsored by Nikon. ...
The story of television’s invention and the competing forces of inventor Philo Farnsworth vs. RCA’s Vladimir Zworykin in the zeitgeist of 1929 has been...
As I’ve said before, “Cover the CE industry, see the world.” That was never truer than my travels in the past three weeks. I’ve...
The 2007 Nobel Prize was given last week to two scientists who are credited with discovering the technology that makes MP3s and MP3 players...
The CE category dominated the winners of Popular Mechanics Top 10 Most Brilliant Gadgets of 2007.
Attendees at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Industry Forum this week has drawn top manufacturers, retailers and analysts to the scenic Hotel Del Coronado,...
Here’s something to watch as we approach mid-October: the Sirius/XM merger. Citi Investment Research seems to think the deal has a better than 60...
From the “this is evidently not a joke” files … The European Union has decreed (they speak in no other language) that any manufacturer...
OnStar’s newest feature for the car needs to be taken to the next level. While it’s great the wireless technology can help catch car...
Apple’s iPhone has sparked an intense discussion of the merits of locked vs. unlocked cellular phones. First, Tim Wu in Slate relays his experience...
Better Energy Systems recently announced a neat product that’s being geared toward college students and adventure-types: the Solio Hybrid1000, a solar-powered power source. It...