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Scottsdale, Ariz. — HDTV has edged out last year’s winner, digital cameras, as the most sought-after CE product for the 2007 holiday season, according...

Mountain View, Calif. — Google’s Android open-phone platform will have a guaranteed home on a Google-owned wireless network. The company announced it will participate...

Lake Success, N.Y. — Canon has renewed its marketing partnership with the PGA Tour through 2010. Canon will continue its promotional role as “The...

Schaumburg, Ill. — Motorola announced that its CEO Ed Zander, 60, is stepping down and Greg Brown, president/COO, has been selected by its board...

New York — Sim2 used a lifestyle showcase for its C3X 1080 high-performance DLP projector here Thursday night to announce that it has agreed...

Minneapolis — Best Buy has introduced a series of in-store and online initiatives to improve the holiday shopping experience for customers. The enhancements were...

 Las Vegas — The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) revealed its International CES Best of Innovations 2009 Design and Engineering award honorees. Sponsored by CEA and...

London — GPS-ready cellular phones have reached a stage of rapid growth and will generate more than $50 billion in worldwide revenues in 2008,...

Redmond, Wash. — Nintendo said it sold more than 350,000 Wii home video game consoles and 653,000 Nintendo DS handheld game players in the...

Ottawa — Computer software maker Corel said its WinDVD Blu-ray Disc playback software will receive BD-Video profile 1.1 certification, supporting picture in picture playback...

Aliso Viejo, Calif. — Buy.com has signed a deal with comedian and game show host Howie Mandel to star in a series of humorous...

Scottsdale, Ariz. — David Lorsch is resigning as CEO of DBL Distributing, effective Saturday, Dec. 1. Lorsch’s announcement follows his June decision to sell...

Seoul, South Korea — Samsung Electronics has begun shipping its F1 series 1TB hard disk drive. “Samsung’s new F1 Series is our ‘racing green,’...

Minneapolis — Darren Jackson, Best Buy’s longtime chief financial officer and more recently head of its customer operating groups, will leave the company Dec....

Fletcher, Ohio — Systemax added four notebook models today featuring the Intel Santa Rosa chipset, which has embedded 802.11n Wi-Fi capability. The Intel Santa...

El Segundo, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard continued its dominance in the global PC market, broadening its lead over Dell, according to a recent iSuppli report....

New York — Sears Holdings, Conn’s and Rex Stores reported mixed results this morning in varying degrees for their most recent quarters. Sears reported...

Tokyo – Sanyo Electric reported basically flat sales but a net profit of $148.1 million for its fiscal first half which ended Sept. 30....

Alviso, Calif. — TiVo reported higher sales and a lower net loss in its fiscal third quarter and signed an agreement with Nero to...

Los Angles – New Medium Enterprises (NME), the developer of a red-laser-based high-definition disc system called HD VMD, said it has reached an agreement...

Irvine, Calif. — Toshiba Storage Device Division announced a new, higher capacity 80 GB hard disc drive (HDD) for use in OEM and aftermarket...

Arlington, Va. — Vendors aren’t the only companies to win International CES Innovations awards. Office Depot, the office supply retail chain, was named a...

Anaheim, Calif. — Bob Lawrence, CEO of the Brand Source buying organization, has received a 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Home Furnishings...

Wayne, N.J. — JVC today announced the addition of a new high-end model to its headphone line, the foldable over-the-ear HA-S900. According to JVC,...

Torrance, Calif. — Alpine is shipping four 2008 CD receivers with a new iPod easy-access function. The models have a feature that automatically divides...

TWICE’s Steve Smith chats about the upcoming CES show on “Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline.”

Alviso, Calif. — NBC Universal has agreed to start offering interactive advertising services through TiVo DVRs and will subscribe to the company’s ratings service....

Vista, Calif. — Directed Electronics will extend its contract to distribute Sirius Satellite Radio products to Aug. 31, 2008. This agreement is significant in...

Chicago — GPS map maker Navteq will hold a special meeting of stockholders on Dec. 12 to consider approval of Nokia’s purchase offer of...

Los Angeles — Significantly increasing its U.S. penetration level, the HD DVD format has sold more than 750,000  HD DVD players following Black Friday’s...

Irvine, Calif. — Volvo will join the short list of automakers offering HD Radio in the 2009 model year, when almost every trim level...

Basking Ridge, N.J. — Verizon Wireless will open up its network in the second half of 2008 to compatible devices not distributed by the...

Arlington, Va. – The Consumer Electronics Association announced today that Microsoft’s Bill Gates will once again kick off the International Consumer Electronics Show with...

Miramar, Fla. — High-performance video-projector manufacturer SIM2 introduced a new dealer support program called its “Partnership Promise.” The program “seeks to redefine the standard...

Lake Forest, Calif. — Western Digital expanded its eco-friendly GreenPower line today with the addition of the Caviar GP 500GB. The Caviar GP is...

Fort Worth, Texas — Cordless phone maker Uniden has begun production in a new factory in Vietnam. According to president Brendan Morris, the 1...

New York — Black Friday’s CE promotions were relatively rational compared with last year, when plummeting prices on flat-panel TVs obliterated margins and sent...

San Diego — Thomas Morris has been appointed PC channel sales manager for Hitachi America’s Ubiquitous Business Platform Systems Division’s Business Group. In this...

Portland, Ore. — Sales of front projectors with native 720p resolution grew 43 percent in the third quarter of 2007 over the second quarter...

Gummersbach, Germany —Jobo added a pair of new 10.4-inch digital frames to its line. The Photo Display PDJ105 and PDJ100 are capable of displaying...

San Antonio, Texas — Clear Channel Radio said its real time traffic network for GPS devices will now cover ten additional markets, bringing total...