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As a card-carrying member of the TiVo generation, I rarely watch commercials anymore. But this European spot for Sony Bravia LCD TVs is definitely...
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As a card-carrying member of the TiVo generation, I rarely watch commercials anymore. But this European spot for Sony Bravia LCD TVs is definitely...
As filmed on YouTube, an owner of an iPod Touch takes a variety of sharp objects to his new device to demonstrate just how...
As I finish packing and prepare to take the long flight back to New York, here are some thoughts I had about my week...
Could AT&T’s CallVantage VoIP service be shutting down? Consider: Russell Shaw reads Investor’s Business Daily and surmises, based on comments from AT&T executives, that...
More airports are installing charging stations where travelers can juice up their CE devices. This is a good idea considering how much time you’re...
You want a megapixel war? Say hello to my little friend:A tripod-like mount makes it possible for a digital camera to take hundreds of...
A new Web site is promising free calls, provided they can listen in. Pudding Media’s Web site is a beta version of technology the...
Colleen Bohen’s blog earlier this week pointed out a move to bring computing to third-world children that is being attempted by the MIT Media...
Oh my. Paul Sweeting at Video Business (which is owned by TWICE parent company Reed Business Information) has a report from the Digital Rights Strategies...
The New York Times reported today that the One Laptop Per Child project will be launching a temporary “Give 1 Get 1” promotion that...
Around the TWICE office we’ve always joked that we would not change the front page of our print issue on deadline “unless Sony buys...
Best Buy posted strong fiscal second-quarter sales and earnings this week; however, during its conference call with analysts, Jim Muehlbauer, chief financial officer of...
Amar Bose was completing his engineering doctorate at MIT in 1956 when he walked into one of two RadioShack stores in the country to...
USA Today has an interesting piece running down how some average consumers are archiving their images and some of the pitfalls of digital storage:...
Solar-power for your computer is here. Granted, this contraption from the Advanced Energy Group, the Solar PowerPACII, weighs 86 pounds and needs to be...
Red-eye reduction and facial detection technology have gone from a niche to mainstream digital camera technology quite rapidly. FotoNation provides both technologies to camera...
This is probably the best take I’ve yet read on the iPhone price cut (via Big Picture): Nobody forced anyone to buy an iPhone....
When I read stories like this about new battery technology, I get a boost of confidence that maybe we can outsmart our way out...
In our therapeutic culture, even cellphones need empowerment. At least that’s what I thought when I saw the news that there’s something called the...
Comcast cut Internet service to heavy downloaders, according to this Washington Post story. Mind you, these customers weren’t engaged in illegal activity; they were...
There were a few good quotes during CEDIA Expo’s press conference day on Wednesday that I heard and I’d like to share. “TV… is...
As yours truly, along with TWICE editors John Laposky, Joe Palenchar and Greg Tarr, prepare to tackle press day here at CEDIA Expo, could...
Forget about the environment — it’s old people who will be driving the market for new technologies. During his IFA keynote, Philips CEO Rudy...
I went to IFA expecting a technology trade show, but the first day all anyone wants to talk about is design. Not that I’m...
Chicago has ditched a plan to blanket the city with wireless broadband Internet, the Associated Press reported. The reason for the scrap — too...
At the beginning of this year’s air conditioning season in the Northeast, a relative who was in the market for an in-wall room air...
Two weeks ago, Skype suffered a major outage. The company has since issued an update as to what, exactly, brought down their service:The disruption...
Austria-based Memlite recently introduced a USB flash drive/cigarette lighter, with storage capacities ranging from 128MB to 4GB. Personally, the idea of keeping important data...
There is an interesting article in Telephony Online about the prospects for strengthening E911 requirements for VoIP providers. The article details some of the...
One of my blogs earlier this year had the headline “Cover the CE Industry, See the World.” I can also say with assurance, “Cover...
A digital camera with a built-in printer will be launched by Zink and a yet-to-be-named manufacturer, according to the company. (Via DigitalCameraInfo.)Zink (which stands...
And I have the evidence to prove it. Well, not evidence per se, but hearsay and conjecture (and those are “kinds of evidence” according...
Ironically, a day after I blogged about D&M Holdings’ McIntosh offering a trade-in program for their products, we received news about the passing of...
Letting customers write product reviews increases e-commerce conversion rates, Web traffic and average order values, according to e-consultancy and Bazaarvoice’s “Social Commerce Report 2007”...
The iconic door-to-door salesman personified by the Fuller Brush Man may no longer fill American streets, but the day of the door-to-door salesman is...
Warner Music posts a wider second-quarter loss. In other unfortunate music industry news, Wired may have caught SoundExchange (the industry’s digital royalty collection agency)...
Everyone talks about “commodity electronics” or worse, “disposable electronics.” But what D&M Holdings’ McIntosh brand is doing is refreshing news to me. McIntosh is...
Microsoft’s digital image file format HD Photo took another step closer to realization as a true industry standard when the Joint Photographic Expert Group...
Another day, another opportunity to lament my decision to be an editor and not a corporate lawyer. The music industry has once again decided...
Once there was an electronics Camelot era, when computers were bigger than DeSotos, the Internet a gleam in Al Gore’s eye, and people devoted...
From the start, Vonage has been an extremely aggressive marketer, spending hundreds of millions a year to cement the 5,6,7,8’s once-somewhat-enjoyable-and-now-excruciating version of Woo...
Hitachi had announced its intentions to launch the first Blu-ray camcorder last year. Now word is percolating that the camcorders could be introduced as...