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Million Dollar Laptop

I’m a little late coming to the $1million laptop that has popped up on the Web. Just in case you missed it, a U.K....

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EMI Owes Me Big Time

Wherein I Toot My Own Horn. Greg Scoblete, Feb. 7: If the music industry were smart, they could do some clever price tiering. Music...

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Update: I Want My MLB

Score one for cable subscribers: Major League Baseball announced that it had come to an agreement with In Demand to offer out-of-market games. Good...

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Carville’s ’08 Predictions

In my career writing for business publications and web sites two subjects are never discussed: politics followed closely by religion. But the speakers at...

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Memjet Cometh

Will a new inkjet technology revolutionize printing? The inkjet printer industry is starting to sound a bit like eighteenth century France with all its...

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TWICE Is Flattered, But….

We all know the tried-and-true bromide that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” While I understand this intellectually, I don’t have to like...

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An Ominous Retail Trend

News today of Tweeter closing 49 stores, two regional facilities and leaving five states within two to three months should not be a surprise...

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I Want My MLB Update

Refusing to give up without a fight, In Demand said it will offer to match DirecTV’s deal in order for the Major League Baseball...

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Moore’s Law RIP?

Flash-memory makers are signaling the end of a venerable computing maxim. Is Moore’s Law toast? Reuters says maybe not for computer processors but possibly...

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Prints at Retail (Just not CE)

Why don’t CE retailers push in-store printing? One of the interesting paradoxes of the digital imaging marketplace is the fact that consumer electronics stores...

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Move Over JPEG?

Microsoft has positioned its own standard as a replacement. We try not to get too deep into the weeds when it comes to standards...

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Fighting The Big Boxes

This is a letter sent to TWICE by Debi Holland about her store’s on-going battle with Best Buy. I felt compelled to write you...

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CE: Not As Easy As It Looks

No one ever said it was easy making a buck in the consumer electronics industry. There were three reminders in the past couple of...

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Cold Weather = Slow Shopping?

(This is a quick addendum to my previous weather-related post.) Big-box retailers blamed the cold weather for their poor February sales. Is there anything...

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Direct Me, Please

There are few things more satisfying than buying something and being able to get it up and running without a major outburst of cussing,...

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I Want My MLB

I gleefully blogged earlier this month about ordering satellite TV and giving my cable provider the old kiss-off — sadly, it was not meant...

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Adobe’s Web of Distribution

Adobe plans to embed some of its video editing software on popular digital media Web-sites, starting with Photobucket, in the hopes of driving more...

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Pogue’s Megapixel Madness

The New York Times’ David Pogue has a fairly good takedown of the “megapixel myth” but I think he conveys a not altogether accurate...

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Watching Where You Walk

A moment of peace and solitude is hard to find in New York City and if N.Y. State Senator Carl Kruger has his way,...

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CE Is ‘Ubiquitous’ On Web Today

Three stories popped up today concerning CE proving how “ubiquitous” the industry’s products have become in everyday life. Here they are: Jobs Favors Free...

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Jobs Loves Unprotected Music

Steve Jobs thinks the music industry should do whatever it takes to make Apple money. I mean, he thinks they should abandon copy protection....

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Smart People On Copyrights

Two recent interesting takes on the stickiness of copyrights in the digital age: First, outlining the potential mother of all copyright cases, Jeffrey Toobin...

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Satellite TV vs. Cable

I don’t consider myself a spiteful person, but when it comes to my cable TV provider, all bets are off. After nearly three years...

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Fujifilm Lowers Prices

Fujifilm shaved $100 off the suggested retails of the FinePix S9100 and FinePix S6000fd digital cameras. The models drop to a suggested $499 and...

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Vista

Vista has been on the street for just over 72 hours and the world appears remarkably similar to how it was on Jan. 29,...

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Digital Camera Growth to Continue?

That’s one way to interpret the news that Taiwanese OEMs are ramping up their production, according to this DigiTimes report (hat tip: Imaging Resource)....

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