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OLED displays, and more specifically those employing AMOLED technology, will be the predominant smartphone screen type in four years’ time. According to global research...

The well-worn rumors about Apple’s plans to launch a virtual pay-TV service got a fresh coat of paint following the company’s Q3 earnings call...

J.D. Power has issued its “2016 TV Satisfaction Report,” and new winners have been crowned. What’s more, retailers should know the in-store display is...

Consumers are ready to open their wallets a little wider this back-to-school season, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF). Calling this year’s season...

Nicovr, a Shanghai-based technology start-up, has launched what it is calling “the world’s smallest consumer 360-degree camera.” The Nico360 VR camera is a cube...

Last week I watched the first female major party candidate for president accept her party’s nomination, formally launching what I suspect will be a...

Arashi Vision has begun shipping a clip-on camera that shoots and live-streams HD 360-degree stills and video directly from an iPhone. The Apple MFi-approved...

Quick, who was the first electronic retailer? If your answer started with an “A” and ended with a “.com,” you’d be wrong. Actually, it...

More than half of all TVs shipped globally in first quarter 2016 were smart TVs, according to research firm IHS Technology, with North American...

After scaling back its U.S. TV presence in 2014, Panasonic pulled out completely early this year but is studying a comeback, a spokesperson confirmed....

Amid all the hullaballoo over Britain leaving the European Union (“Brexit”), TWICE wondered which specialty retailers will be impacted by the move the most....

Part of a series of private-label brand extensions Kenmore has left the kitchen. Sears’ venerable appliance badge is now appearing on a two-line series...

Walmart’s test of a $49/year two-day shipping service is going wide. The pilot ShippingPass program, which launched last spring by invitation only, is now...

Nortek Acquired By British Firm Nortek, the Rhode Island conglomerate that supplies specialty dealers and custom integrators with everything from A/V products and smart-home...

CEO Darling says deal “in best interest of the company” The headphones industry hasn’t had news this big since the Apple/Beats announcement. Incipio, an...

Hitachi America has added itself to the list of TV makers that will offer smart TVs using the Roku platform. The company expects to...

Forms joint venture with Swedish gaming company Acer and Sweden-based game creator Starbreeze AB have officially formed a previously announced joint venture to bring...

To paraphrase Bernie Sanders, I’m sick of the damn emails. I’m also sick of Twitter wars. I’m sick of electronic solicitations for campaign contributions....

To perhaps no one’s surprise, this year’s E3 gaming show, held last week in Los Angeles, was hyper-focused on all things virtual reality, as...

Apple used WWDC smarten up its HomeKit home-automation platform, adding control of Wi-Fi security cameras, doorbells, air conditioners and air purifiers while unveiling an...

360fly: The 360fly 4K camera’s powerful new image sensor produces 2,880 by 2,880-pixel, 360-degree 4K video that can be live-streamed via the Livit mobile...

Outpace national average of OTT streaming households Twenty-three percent of broadband households headed by millennials have completely opted out of traditional pay-TV service for...

When NBC aired its reality series “America’s Got Talent” earlier this month, it may have also launched the career of 12-year-old Grace VanderWaal. If...

Samsung Electronics unveiled some new mobile products and a new marketing campaign, called A Galaxy of Possibility, which lived up to its name with...

Smartphone are starting to break out of a listless cycle of incremental improvements that have dragged down growth rates into the low single digits....

360fly rolled out its first 360-degree 4K Ultra HD camera, a $499-suggested model that joins a current $399 1080p model launched last October. The...

Sony will bring high-resolution audio to trade shows and consumer events in a partnership with home and car audio installation company Whitledge Designs, which...

Google Cast is poised to replace smart TV platforms in select TVs from a variety of TV brands. Here’s what’s coming or already on...

A survey of CE prices last month at four of the top five tech retailers Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart and Target revealed a surprising...

Nortek is the latest is a series of smart-home and CE suppliers signaling their intention to bring natural-language voice control to their products. Nortek...

Microsoft hopes to jump-start the virtual-reality and mixed-reality marketplace by offering the Windows Holographic software used in its HoloLens headset to other companies to...