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San Jose, Calif. – TiVo’s fiscal third quarter revenue, which includes the service and technology segments, increased 139 percent, hitting $12.7 million, up from...

Framingham, Mass. – Digital cameras continue their strong showing at retail, racking up shipments of 2.5 million units during the third quarter of this...

Palo Alto, Calif. – Fiscal fourth quarter revenue in the personal systems group at Hewlett-Packard, which includes personal computers, notebooks and handhelds, hit $5.1...

Specialty consumer electronics retailer Ultimate Electronics reported higher income, sales and profit margin in its fiscal third quarter. Net income reached $1.70 million in...

Osaka, Japan – Sharp reported healthy growth in its audio-visual and communication equipment segment during the first six months of its fiscal year, with...

Tokyo – Although Sanyo Electric consolidated revenue edged upward 1.3 percent in the company’s fiscal first half, reaching $8.5 billion, from $8.4 billion in...

New York – Streaming/download service MusicNet is joining rival Pressplay in allowing authorized downloaded music to be burned to disc and transferred to secure...

Las Vegas – A scaled down Comdex/Fall opened its doors yesterday with Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s keynote address that hearkened back to the days...

Las Vegas – Iomega entered the USB drive market with the introduction of its USB Mini Drive. Iomega’s initial entry is comprised of a...

Las Vegas – Hoping to put additional marketing muscle behind the format, members of the SD Association announced at Comdex the creation of a...

Lake Mary, Fla. – Pulling in its belt in the face of mounting losses and heavy debt, accessories and audio and gaming products maker...

Framingham, Mass. – Sales at the North American Retail segment of office supplies retailer Staples increased 4 percent in the company’s fiscal third quarter,...

Atlanta – The Home Depot has credited sales of major appliances, among other products, with pushing up the price of the average consumer purchase....

Natick, Mass. – Sales at warehouse retailer BJ’s Wholesale Club increased 11 percent in its fiscal third quarter, hitting $1.4 billion, up from $1.2...

Amersterdam, The Netherlands – Royal Philips Electronics reported that a turnaround has begun for its U.S. subsidiary, Philips Consumer Electronics. During today’s meeting with...

Las Vegas – Signaling a move to lower price points Dell made its official debut in the handheld market at Comdex with the lowest...

Las Vegas – SanDisk announced today at Comdex that Hewlett-Packard will bundle the company’s Cruzer USB portable storage device with the new Compaq Presario...

Arlington, Va. – Digital Television (DTV) products continued to set factory-to-dealer sales records in October with unit sales totaling 292,856 on dollar sales of...

Wilkesboro, N.C. – Continued strength of the home improvement consumer in an otherwise uncertain economic environment helped home improvement chain Lowe’s Companies register strong...

Amsterdam – Royal Philips Electronics has appointed Andrea Ragnetti as chief marketing officer at group level, and announced the resignation of Guy DeMuynck, CEO...

New York – Analysts expressed concern about yesterday’s earnings reports from XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio including the news that XM laid...

New York – On the eve of its largest annual show, Comdex/Fall operator Key3Media announced that it is exploring the possibility of filing for...

New York – Embattled communications giant Worldcom will officially name former Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer executive Michael Capellas CEO today. Capellas resigned as president...

New York – Sirius Satellite Radio recorded negative third quarter Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) of $60.1 million, compared with negative...

Pasadena, Calif. – Global technology and media company Gemstar-TV Guide International reported a decrease in revenue and profit in the third quarter. Revenue for...

Round Rock, Texas – Despite the stumbling economy and cautious consumer spending, Dell Computer reported record revenue and shipments in its fiscal third quarter....

New York – XM Satellite Radio announced that it netted 64, 836 new subscribers during the fourth quarter or a total of 201,554 to...

New York – Electric Fuel, makers of Instant Power batteries and cell chargers for cellphones and PDAs, has discontinued its retail consumer battery products...

Sunnyvale, Calif. – AMD reported today that it will lay off about 15 percent of its workforce. This move will affect about 2,000 employees,...

Washington – XM Satellite Radio Holdings substantially increased its consolidated revenue in the third quarter, reaching $5.6 million, up from $1,000 in the year-ago...

New York – Intel broke a new speed barrier today with the introduction of a Pentium 4 3.06GHz processor. Intel’s previous fastest processor was...

Mahway, N.J. – Looking to maximize holiday sales for LCD TVs, Sharp announced price cuts on select AQUOS LCD models, and for the first...

Minneapolis – Fiscal third-quarter revenue increased 11.8 percent at the Target Stores segment of Target Corp., hitting $8.5 billion, compared with $7.6 billion in...

Littleton, Colo. – EchoStar Communications, provider of Dish Network satellite television service, posted nearly a 20 percent increase in revenue for the third quarter,...

Washington – The wireless industry posted its second consecutive first-half decline in net new subscribers, and this year’s decline was steeper than last year’s,...

New York – Sony and Philips teamed up today to purchase InterTrust, a maker of hardware and software to enable the secure transfer of...

Bentonville, Ark. – As the economy continues to sputter, and more consumers choose to shop discount retailers, Wal-Mart’s numbers continue to rise. The nation’s...

Arlington, Va., – Factory sales of digital video products recorded modest gains in the month of October, compared to last year, according to CEA...

Cypress, Calif. – Universal Electronics has unveiled the commercial availability of Kameleon, a remote control display technology that illuminates only active device keys through...

Irvine, Calif. – Toshiba announced aggressive price reductions today on two of its digital cameras in advance of the holiday season. Effective immediately, the...

Newtonville, Mass. – Between 2002 and 2005 a substantial shift will occur in digital camera owners’ printing habitsdriving digital printing from the home to...

(Due to a production error, this article did not appear in the Nov. 11 issue of TWICE.) Parsippany, N.J. – Expanding audio product sales...