Reporter’s Notebook

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,...

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...

An interesting story at Business 2.0 on a new practice at Best Buy.

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...

(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...

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...

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,...

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...

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