Reporter’s Notebook

Ramsey, N.J. – Photo accessories supplier Manfrotto Distribution has donated $20,000 to the Wounded Nature  – Working Veterans charity, as a result of a...

Apple is said to be moving to a smaller 19-pin port on its next iPhone, likely guaranteeing that the next iPhone won’t be able...

Recent announcements by Google and Apple have many people wondering whether the dedicated portable navigation device (PND) is doomed. I’m not one of them....

The New York Times took a look at 2011 proxy filings and released a list of the 200 top-paid CEOs in corporate America. While...

Remote car monitoring is moving into the baby arena, where one manufacturer has equipped a car seat with a monitoring system that will send...

Consumer electronics retailers have been looking to different industries to generate incremental business opportunities during the economic doldrums but there may be a new...

Backers of the Blu-ray Disc format said that streaming entertainment is still a long way from strangling the business for high-def video discs, and,...

Logitech has given more details on its workforce reductions, which it first announced in April as part of an earnings announcement. The computer peripheral...

In the cellular industry, will Apple become the next Nokia or Motorola? Remember when Motorola was on top of the handset heap in the...

Yes, I know, Target, Kohl’s and Kmart are also turning 50 this year. But today is Walmart’s annual shareholders’ meeting and pep rally in...

Smartphone adoption is helping drive up the number of tweets that Twitter users are posting each day, although the overall adoption of the social...

Critics are writing off Best Buy in particular and big-box specialty retail in general as showrooms for Amazon and other online-only retailers. But two...

Discount store behemoth Walmart is really stretching its high-tech legs this month. First, it added Sharp’s 60-, 70- and (in some stores) 80-inch mega-sized...

Discount store behemoth Walmart is really stretching its high-tech legs this month. First, it added Sharp’s 60-, 70- and (in some stores) 80-inch mega-sized...

Facebook has 900 million followers. That is a ridiculous figure. My first thought upon reading that factoid was that outside of organized religion, I...

On April 16 Walmart begins its new disc-to-digital program that will offer customers at more than 3,500 stores across the country the chance to...

Even though April 1 fell on a Sunday this year, that didn’t stop the CE industry from having some April Fools fun. Of course,...

Consumers have grown used to carrier-subsidized cellphones, and they understand the deal. In return for a deeply discounted device, you commit to a two-year...

Cupertino, Calif. – Apple sent out invitations to the press for a March 7 event in San Francisco, and although the secretive company didn’t...

Google is commemorating the 155th birthday of German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz today with an animated search-page “doodle” of a sine wave. As students...

Those who may have been intrigued by news of Skype video calling features being added to some of the latest advanced HDTVs can relax...

Google reportedly wants to offer a wireless multiroom-audio system under its own brand. From the looks of things, Google won’t be offering anything new....

So when is a phone a camera and a camera a phone? The lines of distinction are becoming harder and harder to discern, and...

Aftermarket car audio and car-A/V systems have turned into platforms that bring smartphone functionality to the dash, but not just for streaming music from...

If there ever is a vote held to name the official “Jack of all Trades CE Product,” my ballot would be cast for the...

By all accounts, the emergence of the smartphone and tablet as tools for mobile computing, and especially the apps that drive them, has started...

The notion of “crossover” or shared multifunctionality across traditional product categories has had perhaps the biggest impact on the design of video and TV...

Home audio has logged into the interconnected home, where primary music sources have shifted from standalone CD players, SACD players and AM/FM tuners to...

Griffin Technology’s AppPowered Holiday Sweepstakes is underway, a promotion to highlight the company’s AppPowered line of phone and tablet accessories. Each week through Dec....

Call it my suspicious nature or even a glass-half-empty attitude, but I don’t see the nascent brave new world of “cord cutting” fostered by...

It was an interesting week for the future of the Google TV platform. In separate public disclosures, Logitech’s chairman and acting CEO Guerrino De...

All the fuss over Netflix’s recent tribulations with disc-rental price increases and the moves by competitors like Dish Network’s Blockbuster unit to capture its...

Electrolux’s construction of new manufacturing and research facilities in Tennessee, and LG’s just-opened R&D center in Illinois, are two more examples of the majap...

One of our country’s more interesting traditions takes place in exactly nine weeks. At that time millions of Americans will drag themselves out of...

The Christmas decorations are already out at Costco. No matter that the charcoal embers are still hot from yesterday’s Labor Day barbeque, or that...

In a preliminary ruling, the U.S. Commerce Department has nixed Whirlpool’s petition to have import duties imposed on bottom-mount refrigerators from South Korean manufacturers....

Maybe Hewlett-Packard has it right and there is no money to be made in the PC business. Acer today posted its first-ever quarterly loss...

Best Buy is the latest addition to the growing cadre of deal-of-the-day e-commerce offerings, which now includes social promotion sites Groupon and Living Social....

Borders president Mike Edwards today blamed the e-reader for the demise of his 399-store chain. This is the first time in my recollection that...

I recently spoke with a longtime high-end audio retailer who is optimistic about the future of the component-audio business. He pointed to the aging...