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Sony broke both size and sound barriers with a slew of new products unveiled at IFA 2017, including a palm-sized premium compact camera and...

TCL unveiled three new TVs in three distinct series at IFA this morning, along with an impressive conversational AI capability that allows natural voice...

After a flat 2016, the value of global CE product sales are projected to rise 4 percent this year, according to GfK forecasts presented...

Consumer awareness of home automation has never been greater. Earlier this summer, on Amazon Prime Day, the retailer prominently offered a bundle deal consisting...

Recently, I had to look up my actual start day back in 2002. Here I am 15 years later. It had me thinking of...

As incredible as it may seem, it has only been 10 years since the release of the original Apple iPhone, and to say that...

My birthday is very close to Christmas, a dilemma that, growing up, I shared with many other fellow miserable Sagittarius cusp kids who lived...

The tablet market showed some signs of life in the second quarter despite a continued downward spiral in overall sales. According to research from...

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The coming VR revolution may be delayed by heavy traffic. A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that data consumption by wireless virtual-reality headsets,...

LG phone owners are about to suddenly find an FM radio in their pockets. LG Electronics and TagStation, owner of the NextRadio app, inked...

Ninety percent of shoppers have a mobile phone on them when in-store; however, 73 percent have two or fewer retailer apps on their phones....

Summer is for reading, at least in my house. My sons are banned from screen time from 9-5 each day and the policy has...

Appliance dealers loaded up on inventory in June in advance of the key July 4th holiday shopping period. According to the latest vendor data...

Consumer enthusiasm for technology is exceeding expectations and will drive the U.S. CE industry to an estimated 3.2 percent growth this year, according to...

Best Buy and Walmart may be the two largest brick-and-mortar tech dealers around, but when it comes to sales floor productivity no one holds...

When it comes to the business of selling headphones online, discoverability means a lot more than pegboards and end caps. In an exclusive report...

LG Display’s production ramp-up of almost $7 billion to supply the market for OLED panels for smartphones through 2020 is yet another front on...

A pair of recent studies confirmed what CE retailers like to hear: back-to-school spending is expected to rise this year. Parents plan to spend...

Survey indicates users growing comfortable with paperless transactions Consumers are ready and willing to embrace high-tech payment services, according to a recent study from...

Last month the world marked the 10th anniversary of Apple’s first-ever iPhone. As it should have. Most owners don’t give their iPhones much thought...

Best Buy knows a good thing when it sees it. Rewarded for its smart-home forays with strong comp-sale gains, the retailer has accelerated its...

For those not in the smartphone know, OnePlus is to handsets what T-Mobile is carriers. While neither company is undercapitalized (OnePlus is a corporate...

Smart-home growth may come slowly — but steadily — as just one installed device is enough to motivate consumers to further automate their lives,...

Don’t get Jim Estill wrong. The CEO of compact appliance resource Danby finds no joy in hhgregg’s dissolution. But that’s not to say you...

Are we already at the halfway point of 2017? Maybe it’s just me, but it feels more like six minutes than six months. Either...

Apple’s recent measured plunge into the voice-controlled smart speaker market went as most analysts expected. As usual, Apple sat on the sidelines and watched...

Two years into a five-year licensing deal, Sharp is looking to reclaim its premium TV badge from Hi-sense and has filed suit in two...

U.S. consumers were expected to lavish about $1.8 billion in electronics and computer-related wares on their husbands and dads this past Father’s Day, up...

A new poll of retail sales associates suggests that their customer engagement and job satisfaction would improve if given the proper digital tools and...

Origin Acoustics, which recently began shipping the latest lux audio fruits of its partnership with Bang & Oluf-sen, has refreshed its Director and LCR...

I first learned to drive in the abandoned parking lot of a boarded up Almart store in Bethlehem, Pa. It was 1982. Almart was...

Best Buy’s new Mobile 2020 initiative (after CEO Hubert Joly’s next-phase strategic plan, Best Buy 2020) will result in updated vendor and carrier displays;...

Despite Whirlpool’s status as No. 1 global majap maker, the U.S. manufacturer is continuing to escalate its battle with competitors LG and Samsung over...