Reporter’s Notebook

One of TWICE’s Talkback-ers tipped us off that there’s a Facebook group known as the “Tweeter Survivors Support Group.” As of this writing, it...

Here’s a “convergence” idea that seems to make sense: combining an amplified speaker and a lighting fixture into one surface- or flush-mount fixture whose...

The Mercury News has gotten its hands on Fry’s Ausaf Siddiqui’s casino requests: “Fiji water, grouped in bottles of three. Golden raisins and warmed...

…at least when it comes to what everyone was reading last week. A 110,000 people may have attended CES last week, but a look...

The melding of the PC and TV once again takes center stage at International CES where dozens of manufacturers, content providers, software developers and...

The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show could be remembered as the year of the even flatter TV, or even the year of the recession –...

Now that BD-Live functionality appears to be virtually a basic feature in a majority of the 2009 Blu-ray Disc players planned for 2009, the...

Having attended many pre-CES keynotes headlined by Microsoft’s Bill Gates, I’m used to getting in line hours ahead of time in order to secure...

It appears that Santa was not kind to portable GPS suppliers, leaving them only flat sales for the fourth quarter, where in 2007 sales...

It’s a poorly kept secret in car audio that most of the leading brands are linked to corporate parents that supply OEM radios to...

Liz Cutting at The NPD Group writes: “Black Friday results for imaging were less than we had expected, and really a disappointment in a...

OK, in the midst of this economic meltdown when people are being forced to cut back on their daily meals, let alone their cable...

Because it’s always easier to borrow from others, here is Time Magazine’s Top 10 Gadgets of 2008 (with some commentary added): Optoma’s Pico PK101...

DavidSteele.com has the perfect iPod accessory for both college students and your drunk uncle at Christmas: the iBreath breathalyzer. Its bonus feature? It also...

Facebook users know they can get poked by a friend, but how about getting a nudge from your friendly neighborhood process server? This is...

Here’s a neat product idea: Target is offering their gift cards in a different form. The company’s digital camera gift card can be purchased...

Who would have thought a customer review on Amazon.com could be so entertaining?

During this time of year it is a common practice to try to be generous and kind to your fellow human beings, no matter...

Google’s ongoing project to post books and magazines to the Internet has uncovered a pot of gold for any consumer electronics enthusiast. One can...

An interesting profile of Cisco CEO John Chambers in Fast Company details how he instituted a radical, decentralized, bottom-up approach to product development and...

Time.com makes their suggestion. And, no, Apple’s iPhone 3G was not No. 1. Let the grousing begin.

Many analysts are poring over Black Friday sales figures and, soon, December returns as if these numbers hold the key to our economic future....

Help is on the way: “Scott Freidheim, a senior adviser to former Lehman Brothers Holdings Chief Richard Fuld Jr., has found employment at another...

In case you hadn’t heard, Tweeter has shut all of its stores and apparently filed Chapter 7. Not surprisingly, this has made a lot...

A seemingly minor yet important item came out of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) this week in regard to the forthcoming Mobile DTV...

Retailers’ audio promotion priorities are MP3 players, home theater in a box (HTiB) systems, A/V receivers and MP3-docking speaker systems, in that order, based...

Joe the Plumber — yes, that Joe the Plumber — is starring in a series of videos on www.velocitystore.com to educate consumers about the...

No huge surprise, but Canon’s president Tsuneji Uchida told Reuters that digital camera unit sales may contract in 2009. Uchida noted that d-SLR sales...

It’s been a while since we last checked in on L’Affaire de Petters. Here’s what’s developed: Petters girlfriend has given an interview wherein she...

TWICE now has a Facebook page so you can keep up with the latest consumer electronics news while you’re catching up with friends. To...

As General Motors goes, so goes Sirius XM, or at least that’s what Wall Street thinks, as it’s been punishing Sirius XM stock even...

Let’s say you, like me, are ugly (or as I like to say, homely). Well, help is on the way: “Tessera Technologies, Inc. announced...

Callpod, a CE accessory manufacturer, announced yesterday it has filed a lawsuit against Target, alleging “that Target’s ‘6-in-1 device charger’ sold by Target infringes...

Veteran audio fidelity and music journalist Michael Fremer has just released his second DVD focused on preserving and maximizing the enjoyment of analog audio...

For my money, the British make the best technology commercials. A year after the London-based agency Fallon produced this Sony Bravia ad, Toshiba tapped...

Several readers posted insightful comments in response to my earlier blog, “What Tweeters May Be Saying About Specialty A/V Retailing.” All of the comments...

A note to depressed car aftermarket suppliers: The 2008 SEMA, (Specialty Equipment Marketing Association) Show actually met its forecasts for an attendance of 100,000,...

Here are some excerpts from a white paper from the The Entertainment Technology Center @ USC on what consumers will spend in the coming...

Apple founder Steve Jobs managed to rescue his company from ruin back in the 1990s when he returned as CEO and quickly reversed years...

Most everyone who remembers the heyday of specialty audio/video retailing is saddened by the loss of Tweeter. At its peak, Tweeter — and the...

Most everyone who remembers the heyday of specialty audio/video retailing is saddened by the loss of Tweeter. At its peak, Tweeter — and the...

There’s a federal statute (the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, or WARN) that requires employers to give workers two month’s notice before a...