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Replay Networks and TiVo, makers of digital Personal Video Recorders (PVR), both announced major agreements with traditional and new media companies that promise to...

JVC and ESPN busted out the whuppin’ stick yesterday at the grand opening of the ESPN Zone entertainment center in New York City’s Times...

SanDisk Corp. today announced it shipped more than three million CompactFlash memory cards in 1999, an increase of more than 140 percent over the...

Delphi Automotive Systems and Palm, Inc., today announced an initiative to develop new multimedia products and services for vehicles. The centerpiece is Delphi’s prototype...

3Com Corporation announced the appointment of former Sony president and CEO Carl J. Yankowski as CEO and director of its Palm Computing subsidiary. Yankowski...

Club Photo, an online image-sharing and organizing company, has brought Album To Go, an interactive photo album that runs on the Palm operating system,...

Consumer electronics products are changing from entertainment-only devices to workstyle- and lifestyle-enhancing devices, according to the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association (CEMA). “A lot of...

Palm Computing, a 3Com company, has introduced the Palm IIIe connected organizer, an entry-level version of its popular series of hand-held computing devices. The...

Toshiba has determined its e-commerce strategy, which will go into effect June 1, and it makes strict demands of who gets to sell the...

A new San Jose, Calif., company called iPlayMP3 has released the Moveman, a portable MP3 player that, while aimed at the general consumer market,...

Clarion, the car audio and mobile electronics maker, announced today it would design, develop and market car radios for both XM Satellite Radio and...

Steve Nickerson, VP of marketing for Toshiba America Consumer Products, is leaving his position effective at the end of December after 13 years with...

The first sub-$1500 2.5 megapixel digital camera is on its way. Olympus America today introduced the C-2500L SLR, the new “flagship” of its filmless...

Philips Electronics will introduce an SMDI-compliant MP3 player by the first quarter of 2000, the company said. The device will come equipped with enough...

Agfa says it’s time for the “e” generation. The company’s Desktop Products group is introducing the SnapScan e40 and e50 scanners this May, adding...

Electric Fuel Corp., an Israeli company that makes batteries for portable consumer electronics devices, says it has found the way for wireless device users...

Apple has launched a laptop version of its popular iMac personal computer called the iBook. The crowd at the MacWorld Expo in New York...

Add OfficeMax to the list of national CE and office-supply chains with $400 computer rebate programs. In a deal with CompuServe, the office superstore...

NEW YORK — The SongBank SL CD Memory System, a device that combines many of the features of a CD player, a CD megachanger...

A group of television broadcast and programming companies announced last week their concern that new personal video recorders (PVRs) developed by Replay Networks and...

Nokia introduced media phones designed for easy access to Internet content at PCS ’99 in New Orleans today. The Nokia 7100 Series is based...

South Korea’s debt-ridden Daewoo Group will sell most of its electronic home appliance unit to U.S. investment fund Walid Alomar & Associates for $3.2...

New Zealand-based appliance manufacturer Fisher & Paykel is sailing into the United States with a promotion featuring Dennis Conner and the America’s Cup 2000-and...

The Eveready Battery Co. is launching a new super premium line of batteries designed to target the 10 percent of the market it says...

“Will the future be optical, magnetic, solid state? Will those new hard drive VCRs ultimately replace VCRs?” These were some of the questions that...

Samsung Electronics has announced it is entering the U.S. refrigerator market with three upscale side-by-side refrigerators with twin cooling systems. The new Silhouette line...