Reporter’s Notebook

There have been some questions as to whether the new iPod Shuffle will require headphones containing a proprietary chip in order to use the...

Now that we are all addicted to mobile phones — so addicted that some of us pay $200 a month for a family plan...

Seth Stevenson grades Comcasts’s most recent advertising campaign on Slate.com. Stevenson, noting the difficulties of a company trying to create a virtual brand community...

Hasbro has expanded Performance Designed Products’ rights for gaming accessories, as reported by TWICE’s sister publication Playthings. The rights are based on the toymaker’s...

Spring was in the air this weekend in the greater NYC area and as thoughts turned toward the upcoming baseball season, I noticed that...

I know why American productivity is down. We’re all chasing down rumors, which used to be called news stories, appearing on the Web. Such...

Retailers: Don’t think the just-announced broadband video-on-demand service ZillionTV will be offering any new revenue opportunities to help you in these trying times —...

Here’s some new technology that bears mentioning or that is just interesting. Samsung has released a mobile phone in Korea according to reports, with...

…..The Awards Of PMA: PMA and its affiliates bestowed their annual awards at its tradeshow this week. The envelope please …. Shigetaka Komori, president...

For turntable enthusiasts who still haven’t made the complete transition to digital — or who don’t want to purchase a turntable-converter device — independent...

Digital frame maker MediaStreet has launched a new service which will provide free photos to digital photo frame owners (of any make and model)....

President Obama, infamous for Twittering during his presidential campaign, has given up on the process. For those of you seeking to fill that void,...

This New York Times story highlights the challenges technology recruiters are facing during the recession. Included in the story is Alexis Lovell, a former...

From the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up department: According to a report from Reuters out of London Tuesday, too much PlayStation usage may grow lumps on your palms....

Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs wants to make smartphones a fixture in U.S. classrooms. It’s an interesting idea, but most of the teachers I know...

Top 10 on TWICE.com (For the week of Feb. 9-15) Pioneer Exits TV Business As Losses Mount Best Buy Taking Magnolia In-House, To Shut...

Your weekly fix of news in the distribution world: DBL Distributing is now carrying the EcoSmart line of bamboo-based computer accessories from Micro Innovations....

Now DirecTV is reportedly entering talks with Sirius XM, possibly touching off a bidding war over the satellite-radio company between the two leading satellite...

If reports out of Japan this week prove correct, the industry may be losing a pair of powerful players in the plasma TV category....

As we wait to see how Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin will handle the company’s looming debt payments, including one that comes due on...

John Siracusa has a great piece on the subject here. To set the table: The pace of the e-book market over the past decade...

Acquiring another $125 million or so of Sirius XM debt could give EchoStar chairman and CEO Charlie Ergen enough ownership in Sirius to gain...

Picking on the government is almost as easy as poking fun at “Star Wars” nerds, but just for giggles read through the actual DTV...

A writer at the Las Vegas Review Journal asked his readers if they thought International CES should be open to the public. Not surprisingly,...

Here are some late Friday thoughts on this week’s news in car electronics.  Sirius XM: You may have heard that Charlie Ergen, CEO of EchoStar,...

When it comes to the DTV transition, James Richter of Atlanta has his priorities straight. He can’t find a regular job, and he’s given...

Microsoft founder, and current philanthropist, Bill Gates released a swarm of mosiquitos during the 2009 Technology, Entertainment, Design conference to help make a point about...

We’ve all read the stories about how Wal-Mart locks its workers inside its stores, hires illegal aliens and basically treats its employees almost as...

OK, after the recent onslaught of 3-D TV demos at International CES, the much-hyped airing of a 3-D ad during the Super Bowl and...

Stores owned by wireless carriers are becoming one-stop shops for consumers’ residential and mobile telecommunications needs.  That trend was reinforced by Verizon Wireless when...

Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) (and I understand if I lost you right there, non-New York-area readers) has authored a House bill called the Camera...

I’m no merchandise manager, but I’ve often wondered why manufacturers with more than one core competency don’t do more to leverage their multi-category strengths...

Canon wants their workers to leave early (5:30) so they can make babies: In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant...

In 2008, the number of single-family housing starts approached levels not seen since 1945. Go ahead. Read it again. We were crossing the bridge...

Two weeks ago, the DECT Forum issued a statement saying that the technology was secure, despite a demonstration by hackers to the opposite effect. ...

It continues to amaze me how every one in the world seems to be acutely aware of the global economic meltdown, except the professional...

I was sorry to hear that the annual KnowledgeFest trade gathering was cancelled this year, but I wasn’t that surprised. The budgets of small...

Interesting article by Matthew Daneman in the Rochester Democrat about Kodak’s film business: All Kodak’s film capture products are in decline, “but all are...

A new Neilsen survey revealed Thursday had both good news and bad news for the controversial Feb. 17 transition to all-digital TV broadcasting. First...

Warning! TVs and big pieces of furniture could tip over and hurt someone, so you better be careful. That’s the message, more or less,...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is investigating Comcast over allegations that its network management practices are degrading the quality of third-party VoIP providers (such...

Everyone knows of David Letterman’s Top 10 list, but what the show also hosts is a weekly online contest allowing viewers to suggest their...