Best Buy Adds Dialogue Coaching To Support Services
Oscar nominee Jonah Hill owes Best Buy a huge shout-out, whether or not he wins Best Supporting Actor this weekend. He explained on the...
Update your browser to view this website correctly. Update my browser now
Oscar nominee Jonah Hill owes Best Buy a huge shout-out, whether or not he wins Best Supporting Actor this weekend. He explained on the...
“Young Frankenstein” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” come to mind whenever someone talks to me about putting an electrode-embedded headcap on your...
Last week while watching the new Google Glass gaming ad, I had a frightening premonition. I could see myself on a train sitting next...
Northlandz is a model-train mecca in suburban Flemington, N.J., that has delighted my two young sons for years. Now almost 10 and 8 years...
So, when is a report on lower monthly CE and major appliance sales not necessarily bad news? When it is weather related is my...
No price war among carriers? That was the conclusion of one carrier executive during a recent investors’ conference call. But I’m not so sure....
The Seahawks weren’t the only big winners of last night’s Super Bowl XLVIII. In one swell foop, RadioShack reestablished itself within the American psyche...
This was an unexpected headline on Marketwatch yesterday: Facebook, Twitter highlight gainers; ADT unravels Two companies that do not produce or sell anything, although...
While skimming through the images coming out of International CES a few weeks ago, I came across an odd contraption: a Polaroid camera. I’m...
Between all the press conferences, keynote speeches and logging in 42 hour in the Venetian’s poker room during International CES last week, I forgot...
The demo made the difference. I have not been a fan of Best Buy’s in store experience for a number of years, but that...
The cellphone business destroyed some markets and created others. As soon as I saw the first flip phone that doubled as an MP3 player,...
On last Sunday’s broadcast of 60 Minutes, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos startled viewers, and correspondent Charlie Rose, by unveiling a nascent fleet of self-piloted drones...
With its first Ultra HD TV now out of the gate, Hisense USA is looking to take the technology and the brand to the...
Have an audiophile or a techie on your gift list? Good holiday deals on CE accessories abound in stores and online as part of...
Multi-room Wi-Fi speakers use an assortment of technologies and implementations to let you stream music from mobile devices and computers to multiple rooms at...
This is a truly bad idea. I speak from experience on this topic, and I hope with all my heart that the FCC’s proposal...
The headphones world is a never-ending source of news, be it unremitting product introductions or company efforts to stand out in the shoulder-to-shoulder crowded...
I am going to be a hypocrite. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year, and it deeply bothers me that most of the...
I was just coming to grips with the notion of a Panasonic plasma-less world when Dish today announced it is shuttering its last remaining...
Anna Gray is TWICE’s intern. She is currently attending Brooklyn College and will give her insight via several blog entries into how she goes...
Just ahead of the biggest shopping period of the year, Amazon.com has quietly raised the amount you have to spend to qualify for Free...
We’re still two weeks away from Halloween and six weeks out from Thanksgiving, but already whiffs of Black Friday are in the air. Earlier...
Seems I’ve been writing a lot of obituaries for a lot of very good industry people lately. This is the first one, and hopefully...
AdWeek magazine and APCO Worldwide have released the results of their Most Loved Brands In The World survey, and a number of CE suppliers...
It’s never a slow moment in the headphones category. The 2013 CanJam will be at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in Denver this week,...
Wearable technology will be one of the nascent categories that will get a whole bunch of attention at the coming International CES in January....
Cellular carriers have long contended, at least in public, that they want more choices among operating systems and handset makers than those afforded by...
The way manufacturers in CE and other consumer product industries tell it, getting onto Walmart’s vendor matrix is like running a gauntlet, only tougher....
Rearview video systems have been added to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s list of Recommended Advanced Technology...
As a jaded tech reporter, my first reaction to TV coverage of the lines outside Apple Stores this morning was “Really?” Aren’t there any...
Here are a few pleasant thoughts for the next time you find yourself under a desk attempting to reset your router or trying to...
For retailers, holiday advertising is like a game of reverse chicken: to see who can jump in first rather than pull away last. We’ve...
Samsung is preparing to launch its first smartwatch, and Apple is rumored to be developing its first smart watch. But for all the hype,...
Amazon.com has quietly opened a dedicated department for home automation. The virtual storefront culls the e-tailer’s mammoth selection of programmable products and assorts them...
Nearly one third of college students and recent grads have either broken or had their mobile devices stolen, a new Google Survey shows. The...
El Segundo, Calif. — Even as the market for the first curved organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV sets begins to emerge, display markers are...
I think there is hope for Sears. Yes, the chain lost $279 million during the first quarter; it has to find new uses for...
Best Buy is fighting fire with fire. The No. 1 CE chain, which has been ceding share to online retailers, has updated its mobile...
With the CEDIA Expo coming up next month, I decided to turn on the Wayback Machine to travel back to the 2003 Expo for...
Much wringing of hands continues in the broadcast and multichannel TV service industries over the growth of over-the-top (OTT) TV viewing activity as services...
Motorola. Nokia. BlackBerry. The Novatel of the ‘90s. H.H. Scott. Fisher. Zenith. Admiral. These were high-flying consumer electronics and cellphone companies whose market shares...