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Consumer electronics products have always had an impact on American politics and the industry is now getting a chance to practice its magic on...

Digital World Tokyo peered behind the curtain at some of the more esoteric projects Sony engineers are cooking up behind the scenes. Some interesting...

Several months ago I wrote about how the Web has changed customer/retailer relations. At that time I was speaking about a mattress company, but...

Consumers Reports has a top five in their forthcoming issue: 1. Missing the perfect shot because of slow shutter speed.2. Distant subjects are very...

I guess the lawyers at Major League Baseball felt a letdown after settling their fight with the cable companies (and some would say, a...

In case you haven’t read it already, the New York Timeshas an interesting piece on some internal hand-wringing at the nation’s largest retail chain....

A few weeks ago TWICE retail editor Alan Wolf commented upon a theory that Dell and RadioShack are potentially made for each other. Not...

Before Al Gore invented the Internet, TWICE editors occasionally popped up in the print issue to offer their thoughts on a recent encounter with...

That appears to be the up-shot of this report on a presentation given by Kodak CEO Antonio Perez. Kodak’s CMOS technology...

Both Kodak and Shutterfly have announced partnerships with Target to provide the retailer with online digital imaging services. The enterprising folks at the Consumerist...

Whenever you see the words “typology” in the title, you know you’re in for an exhaustive look. And Pew Research’s A Typology of Information...

A BusinessWeek commentary by senior writer Peter Burrows proposes an elegant solution to the dilemmas besetting Dell and RadioShack: a merger. Dell, which is...

Is One Killing the Other? There was an interesting comment on one of our “Talkback” threads which I think is worth calling out. It...

Timothy Lee has an interesting column in the American on the current course of patent law in technology, using the Vonage/Verizon dispute as his...

Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar of Claysburg, Pa., has been named the LG National Texting Champion. After beating out more than 300 fellow competitors, Morgan was...

Micro Center’s announcement last week that it will take over up to 10 former CompUSA stores is giving some enterprising business grad student looking...

Jim Sinegal, CEO of Costco, is a 21st Century Sam Walton of sorts. His low-key style, his regular visits to every store, and his...

That’s the rumor. (Sprint-Nextel is also suing Vonage over patent infringement and a buyout is one possible way to settle.) IDC analyst Will Stofega...

In-Stat asked around and apparently found not much interest: Wi-Fi-only phones could theoretically replace cellular phones for some users, but respondents that participated in...

The LA Timeshas an editorial on the FCC’s forthcoming spectrum auction : The FCC’s goal for the auction should be to...

CircuitCity is Part of a Wider Trend…. Circuit City’s move to bump off its highest paid employees has generated a lot of feedback. From...

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....

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...

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 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,...