Reporter’s Notebook

Written off as dead by some people only a few years ago, component audio has been resurrected, the latest CEA forecasts show. Combined sales...

OK, so let’s stop blaming our love of big-screen TVs for wasting energy and growing global greenhouse gases (at least in Al Gore’s yard)....

Here are four scary factoids. *About 25 percent of the 4 million Android apps currently available pose a security threat. *About 40 percent of...

Just like the South, where the Richmond, Va., CE chain was once based, Circuit City may rise again. Current owner Systemax has put the...

The following blog was written in 2007 after Dr. Amar Bose appeared before a group of journalists invited to his Framingham, Mass, headquarters to...

The National Retail Federation’s house publication, STORES, has released its annual Top 100 Retailers report, based on overall 2012 U.S. retail sales. The report...

As CE devices continue to shrink while adding computing power, the logical assumption is that carrying your gear around should be getting easier. Nothing...

Judging by the number of pitch emails I’ve received since International CES, Bluetooth “leashes” are exploding in popularity. Here are some recent additions to...

Proxy statements have been sent to Best Buy shareholders, who, among other pieces of business, are being asked to vote in a new slate...

The Boston terror attacks may have pulled the news media’s attention away from the shenanigans of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, but IHS iSuppli...

The life of the CE industry flashed before my eyes last week as I roamed through the back roads of the Appalachian Mountains in...

I am a bit of a weather geek. So when the folks at Netatmo offered to let me check out their latest Urban Weather...

These two products made their recent debut on crowd-funding websites – sites that rely on “donations” from consumers to develop and manufacture the product....

LG Electronics was nothing but net this week as it used a sponsorship of the NCAA’s Division I Men’s Basketball Final Four to promote...

Dolby Laboratories isn’t talking, but there don’t seem to be any major technical hurdles getting in the way of migrating the company’s Atmos surround-sound...

City of Industry, Calif. – Newegg.com took liberties with its website on April 1 by creating a faux home page for an April Fools’...

A number of experiments are currently underway by big-box chains to leverage their real estate and ally with Internet companies to better compete with...

No Facebook did not rescue my neighbor’s cat from a tree nor did Twitter pull a child from a burning home, but the two...

Economist/pundit Charles Krauthammer has come up with an interesting proposal that would solve the Cypriot banking scandal and open Apple up to new investment...

Excuse us if we don’t panic over a news report out of Japan earlier this week that the industry’s leading champion of plasma TV...

DirecTV’s latest whole-home DVR system called the Genie has been available and widely advertised for a few months now, but in light of the...

Free is always better, but free and legal is the best. At least that is what music lovers appear to be thinking. According to...

Many observers derided Sears chairman and majority shareholder Eddie Lampert’s decision to add CEO to his title last month. Perhaps addressing naysayers who questioned...

Years ago, the autosound aftermarket rightly feared the arrival of the digital OEM databus and the integration of multiple OEM electronics and electrical systems....

Pundits who’ve been betting against Best Buy may now be having second thoughts. Forbes, which helped usher in the competitive sport of Best Buy...

Irvine, Calif. — Western Digital introduced Tuesday a new addition to its line of WD TV set-top streaming devices, offering a more affordable price...

The headline is a little misleading. Santa’s online service was really not involved, but the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s (NORAD) Tracks Santa program...

Sears Holdings announced Thursday that New York Mets player development VP Paul DePodesta has been elected to its board of directors. For us baseball...

Some audio suppliers are really chafing under the Kremlin-like secrecy that surrounds Apple’s new-product plans. Maybe it’s good business to keep the competitors guessing,...

TWICE recently attended a GE holiday soirée at 30 Rock hosted by chairman/CEO Jeffrey Immelt. While he wouldn’t talk shop about majaps (“Come on,...

I have been reading the pro and con arguments surrounding the decision by several retailers to open their doors Thanksgiving evening. Up until today,...

For the last few weeks I thought Hurricane Sandy had managed to knock Microsoft’s Redmond campus off the power grid. The almost total lack...

If Best Buy’s Facebook account can be believed, the retailer will enter the tablet PC market on or around Nov. 11. The announcement itself...

Smartphones are quickly becoming an important tool for voters to follow campaigns, discuss issues and connect directly with a politician running for office. According...

Google has its Nexus-brand tablet and smartphones and thought it could get into the home audio market with a wireless music streamer dubbed the...

There is nothing more fun than extrapolating a trend from a single source of information and broadly interpreting it to make a larger point,...

Tablets and smartphones are making TV an even more enjoyable experience, but the industry is only scratching the surface to take advantage of this...

At the invitation and as a guest of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), I attended SINOCES last week, of which the CEA is the...

More technology doesn’t always mean better technology, as data from the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) purports. Although such car safety tech as forward...