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Richmond, Va. — Circuit City executives cited new technology as the driving factor behind the company’s 4 percent rise in sales in its second...

NEWTON, IOWA — Citing critical disruptions of major appliances in the retail marketplace, Maytag Corp. said it expects second-half financial results to be lower...

RICHMOND, VA. — Total sales for the Circuit City Group rose 4 percent in the second fiscal quarter ended Aug. 31, reaching $2.51 billion,...

BENTON HARBOR, MICH. — Circuit City’s decision to abandon the major appliance category has come back to haunt one of the leading U.S. majap...

MINNEAPOLIS — Setting its sights on augmenting its competitive advantage in the coming months, Best Buy continues to whet customers’ appetites for more highly...

ROUND ROCK, TEXAS — Growth in sales to small-business customers worldwide has come up short of Dell Computer’s internal expectations. This slowdown, as well...

NEW YORK — Tweeter Home Entertainment Group expects that its custom home-installation business will add $800,000 to $1 million in sales to each of...

P>NEW YORK — Targus Group International Inc., parent company of storage products maker Targus Inc. has acquired Roundhouse Inc., the Rancho Dominguez, Calif.-based supplier...

Delray Beach, Fla. – Softer-than-expected comp-store sales in May and June took a toll on office products giant Office Depot. The retailer reported its...

DENVER — Significant growth in digital entertainment products helped elevate Ultimate Electronics to record profits for the second fiscal quarter ended July 31. The...

NEW YORK — The 18th annual PC Expo will kick off tomorrow at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center here, with 85,000 attendees expected...

New York — Canon USA presented a sneak peek of several product prototypes, including a digital camera with a built-in Bubble Jet printer, during...

Sun Microsystems’ CEO Scott McNealy was not shy in telling the crowd gathered for his keynote address Thursday afternoon where he believed the software...

Internet appliances, cable and DSL modems, and a wide variety of software applications will dominate the product exhibits at the RetailVision show kicking off...

Retailers and industry analysts expressed little surprise regarding IBM’s decision last week to abandon the retail market in favor of the direct model, but...

Canon will shift its business focus away from PCs to Internet appliances as the company sees the potential growth in that category possibly overtaking...

The monstrous gains racked up by computer products retailers in 1998 have continued through the first half of 1999, and the trend is expected...

The thousands of Apple faithful attending the Macworld Expo in New York City last week must have thought they were seeing double. First, actor...

NEW YORK — Pioneer reported last week it will start shipping a DVD-R/RW PC drive to retailers and into the OEM market early next...

Cheap PCs fueled by Internet service provider rebates drove the TWICE PC Computer Products Registry up by $7 billion to $34 billion in 1999,...

National Semiconductor’s decision to leave the consumer PC processor category will have little effect on the downwardly spiraling prices that processors and PCs have...

If not for the signs stating “Consumer Electronics Show” posted throughout the Las Vegas Convention Center, attendees might have thought they were at the...

Panasonic, Toshiba and Sandisk yesterday announced the creation of the Secure Digital (SD) Association, designed to promote the use of SD flash memory cards....

REDMOND, WASH. & CUPERTINO, CALIF. — The Windows operating system may dominate the market, but last week Apple showed it is still in the...

Philips will take the first step toward integrating speech-recognition software into its products with the introduction next week of an upgraded Nino handheld PC...

Sega can be expected to have a successful 1999 holiday selling season with its upcoming Dreamcast game console, but one industry analyst warned that...

Compaq, Packard Bell NEC and IBM fleshed out their fall PC lines last week with the former company introducing a new desktop form factor,...

Low-end PC maker eMachines today reported that Sears will start carrying its eTower desktop PC line today. Sears will carry the eMachines eTower 366c,...

New York – The DVD Forum and the camp supporting the competing DVD+RW format swapped punches at PC Expo with each side unveiling a...

After two disastrous trading days earlier this month that saw Apple’s stock lose 50 percent of its value, analysts and retailers say the company...

Gateway this week entered the highly competitive New York City computer retail market when the cow-oriented manufacturer/direct dealer opened a Gateway Country Store on...

Retailers may have a rare opportunity to turn a nifty profit on PCs this holiday selling season when an expected shortfall of cheap PCs...

AMD has taken processor giant Intel to task so far this year, boosting its market share to 37% and beating its competitor to market...

The PC Expo consumer and information technology show is expected to draw 100,000 people visiting 500 exhibitors and five new pavilions when the show...

Apple is neither condemning nor endorsing a plan announced today by FreeMac.com to give away 1 million iMacs in exchange for a three-year ISP...

Information appliances, software platforms, electronic commerce and broadband home networking are the themes for the 1999 Comdex fall show this week – and more...

The six vendors supporting the DVD+RW format reported at PC Expo last week they will begin volume shipments of the drive and media this...

Some regional retailers reported being snubbed by AOL, MSN and Prodigy when the chains attempted to become involved in the $400 mail-in rebate programs...

Sony and Lexar Media announced a cross-licensing agreement to have Lexar produce Sony Memory Stick flash memory and Sony to utilize Lexar’s flash memory-card-controller...

DataPlay will unveil at the Internet World show in Los Angeles on Wednesday a quarter-size optical storage disc that contains the attributes of CD-R...

Hewlett-Packard today introduced four new Pavilion desktop PCs, including the 9690c, which sports the just-introduced Intel Pentium III 800MHz processor. The Pavilions feature prices...

Sony unveiled a slew of new desktop and notebook computers last week that will make their public debut at PC Expo in New York...