News

Unity Motion, the start-up satellite service for high-definition programming, has discontinued its three-channel service as the result of financial problems. Control of the company...

July is the latest target date for the Association Of Home Appliance Manufacturers’ headquarters to relocate from Chicago to Washington, D.C., according to the...

With a new credit line in hand, high-end video projector marketer Vidikron America stepped back from the brink of bankruptcy. While the company did...

As retailers walk the floor of WCES 96, many will be struck by the extent to which satellite TV has become such a major...

Boosted by high demand for cordless telephones, unit volume retail sales of telecommunications products including telephones, answering systems, and answering machines were up 3.7%...

What do a $3,900 two-megapixel digital camera, a $2,600 pair of headphones, a $1,900 handheld MiniDisc player and a $30,000 HDTV projector have in...

The 39-hour debacle between Time Warner and Disney’s ABC didn’t cause a widespread run on indoor antennas and A/B switches at retail. But more...

Sony highlighted the IEEE 1394 digital interface it calls i.LINK and its Memory Stick storage media as keys in home network and portable network...

Bill Sims, president of Zenith Sales Corp., is leaving the consumer electronics manufacturer at the end of the month to become president/CEO of Live...

San Francisco – Consumer electronics manufacturers, e-tailers, click & mortar retailers and e-commerce service providers all converged on the city by the bay earlier...

New technology has always been the lifeblood of the consumer electronics, computer and communications industries, and recently has emerged as an important factor in...

LOS ANGELES — E-commerce isn’t just about e-tailing. It could also save you money on standard business operations. That surprising idea and several others...

NEW YORK — Susumu Kotani, Pioneer Electronics USA’s president/chief operating officer, in his first meeting with the press since his appointment this spring, outlined...

LOS ANGELES — Product returns, the bane of the existence of manufacturers and retailers, was a prime topic at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)...

Sony has set its e-commerce policy, and the company is initially siding with brick & mortar dealers who have e-commerce sites versus e-commerce-only retailers....

INDIANAPOLIS — Thomson Consumer Electronics and Radio-Shack will officially kick off the five-year RCA Digital Entertainment Center “store-within-a-store” deal on June 6 with a...

Chiba, Japan — Bluetooth-based products, HD recorders using blue laser, SD and Memory Stick-based products, home network items, and HD plasma and LCD screen...

LOS ANGELES — CE industry e-commerce strategies, which included an e-tailing primer from keynote speaker Jerry Storch of Target Corp., were offered at the...

MARTA Cooperative Of America held its first buying group meeting with new executive director Warren Mann at the helm, and the comments from dealers...

Kirk Nakamura, chairman/CEO of Matsushita Electric Corp. of America in the early ’90s and president of Panasonic Company from 1988 to 1992, has been...

NEW YORK – Sony Electronics’ newly appointed president Fujio Nishida outlined his strategy to take the company toward an “eSony” business model, which would...

CHIBA, JAPAN — Under the theme of “Digital Networking For Life,” Panasonic highlighted SD memory card technology, along with plenty of other component products...

Pioneer Electronics USA president/CEO T. Asano provided a review of the present and a peek at the future, discussing a proposed home networking system,...

Best Buy, Circuit City and Tandy finally went head-to-head in New York. No, Best Buy and Circuit City didn’t surprise everyone and open stores...

“You could say, that like a play, over the past three years we worked the kinks out off Broadway,” said Rich Hollander, VP-general manager...

The nation’s three largest CE retail chains pointed to digital products and the untapped potential of e-commerce as the keys to continued growth in...

Sony Electronics has added five e-commerce sites to its short list of authorized online dealers. The five newly sanctioned sites are operated by Abt...

It’s New York by next year for Best Buy. Although the retail giant has previously hinted at plans to penetrate the Big Apple, chairman/CEO...

For New York’s remaining CE chains, a strong offense is apparently the best defense. Faced with a 45-store siege of their home turf by...

MARTA’s appointment of Warren Mann as executive director earlier this month was the final piece in a management puzzle that had dogged three of...

Tweeter is beginning to sound more like a Woofer. It was a scant three years ago that the regional specialty chain set out from...

Richmond, Va. — Majap mavens were surprised, rather than shocked, by Circuit City’s seemingly spontaneous decision to pull the plug on appliances last month....

NEW YORK — While a slowing economy and higher energy costs continue to weigh heavily upon most broadline merchants, CE specialists sailed through September...

Associated Volume Buyers has thrown down the gauntlet, as proto-buying group ASTAR prepares for its first organizational meeting next month. While ASTAR — a...

While June sales were mixed for mass merchants, retail specialists ranging from wholesale clubs to RadioShack enjoyed double-digit gains. As Sharper Image founder Richard...

No less than five retail buying groups held their annual member meetings within a one-week period late last month, keeping hotels bustling and vendors...

P.C. Richard, the New York metro area electronics and appliance chain, cut the ribbon on its 40th store yesterday morning after a two-week-long soft...

Don’t get Leon Temiz started. The mere mention of the Internet gets the 6th Avenue Electronics CEO railing against the recent spate of virtual...

It’s the complexity, stupid… That was the warning – and challenge – issued by America Online’s Marc Andreessen in his keynote address at last...

Having conquered the continent with its recent acquisitions of Home Entertainment and Dow Stereo/ Video, Tweeter is now out to tame the Internet. Its...

The just-inked “strategic alliance” between Tandy and Thomson, making RCA the predominant if not exclusive audio/video brand at RadioShack, would appear to be a...

Tandy and Thomson consummated a much-anticipated strategic alliance last night making RCA the primary A/V brand for RadioShack. The five-year deal, announced this afternoon...