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The LA Timeshas an editorial on the FCC’s forthcoming spectrum auction : The FCC’s goal for the auction should be to...
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The LA Timeshas an editorial on the FCC’s forthcoming spectrum auction : The FCC’s goal for the auction should be to...
Trade shows are the place to connect with your industry, but the CTIA Wireless show has become a place to connect with the movers...
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....
… or a profitable $999 42-inch flat-screen TV. Someone had to pay the price for those “Red Friday” deals, and the pricing schemes since...
Wherein I Toot My Own Horn. Greg Scoblete, Feb. 7: If the music industry were smart, they could do some clever price tiering. Music...
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...
In my career writing for business publications and web sites two subjects are never discussed: politics followed closely by religion. But the speakers at...
Will a new inkjet technology revolutionize printing? The inkjet printer industry is starting to sound a bit like eighteenth century France with all its...
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...
We reported on an iSuppli report released earlier this week indicating that there will be some let-up in the over supply of flash memory...
New York — Wired takes a unique look at how hi-def film is changing television production at NBC’s “30 Rock.” For me, the article...
Looks like the Europeans will get their hands on the EX-Z11 from Casio before us (if we get it at all — a Casio...
An Open Question to Readers… A consumer group in Britain has released a report on the state of energy efficiency in consumer electronics (here,...
News today of Tweeter closing 49 stores, two regional facilities and leaving five states within two to three months should not be a surprise...
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...
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...
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...
Microsoft has positioned its own standard as a replacement. We try not to get too deep into the weeds when it comes to standards...
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...
No one ever said it was easy making a buck in the consumer electronics industry. There were three reminders in the past couple of...
(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...
There are few things more satisfying than buying something and being able to get it up and running without a major outburst of cussing,...
Look out Geek Squad? I used to scoff (privately) when vendors would tell me that many people don’t even get photos off their memory...
Couple of items to report on the Vonage front. First, the company has quietly announced its first annual calling plan. It’s been offered only...
When the news broke on President’s Day that Sirius and XM agreed to bury the hatchet and merge, it was a surprise, yet it...
Skype is petitioning the FCC to force cellular carriers to allow consumers to use their VoIP service over a carrier’s data plan (hat tip:...
I gleefully blogged earlier this month about ordering satellite TV and giving my cable provider the old kiss-off — sadly, it was not meant...
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...
I think the headline is an offshoot of the old recruitment ad, “Join the Navy, See the World.” The same is true for journalists...
The New York Times’ David Pogue has a fairly good takedown of the “megapixel myth” but I think he conveys a not altogether accurate...
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,...
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...
Steve Jobs thinks the music industry should do whatever it takes to make Apple money. I mean, he thinks they should abandon copy protection....
The digital media floodgates are starting to crack open. Apple’s Steve Jobs’ call for less DRM for music, along with the Amazon/TiVo deal that...
Two recent interesting takes on the stickiness of copyrights in the digital age: First, outlining the potential mother of all copyright cases, Jeffrey Toobin...
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...
Fujifilm shaved $100 off the suggested retails of the FinePix S9100 and FinePix S6000fd digital cameras. The models drop to a suggested $499 and...