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Madison, Wis. – Rayovac saw its fiscal fourth quarter North American sales dip 3 percent, to $122.6 million, from $126.6 million year-on-year, said total...

Bethpage, N.Y. – Following a restructuring of consumer electronics retailer The Wiz, begun in the third quarter, parent company Cablevision Systems reported a 21.5...

Cupertino, Calif. – Apple revamped its notebook computer line today with the introduction of several new PowerBooks, including the new two-unit Titanium PowerBook G4...

New York – The Tablet PC will become a reality tomorrow when most major PC vendors roll out their first version of a next...

For the TWICE Jan. 9 CES issue.  Send new product information with pictures, via e-mail or regular mail, to: TWICE  360 Park Avenue South...

For the TWICE Jan. 9 CES issue.  Send new product information with pictures, via e-mail or regular mail, to: TWICE 360 Park Avenue South...

Parsippany, N.J. – Expanding audio product sales and enhanced licensing revenue helped the consumer electronics segment at Emerson Radio post a 9.9 percent net...

New York – Sharp Electronics has signed an exclusive deal with Circuit City that makes the retailer the only nationwide chain to carry the...

Custom installers think they’re the brand, but they can’t match the brand awareness of Verizon Communications, the telecom carrier with more landline- and wireless-phone...

Surging sales of home components and car audio didn’t offset double-digit declines in home systems and portable audio, sending factory-level audio sales down in...

The HomePlug Powerline Alliance plans to develop a next-generation powerline-network standard that will simultaneously stream multiple standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) video programs without...

EchoStar’s attempt to acquire Hughes Electronics and its DirecTV operation failed to gain regulatory approvals for the second time last week, when the Department...

For a company named Good Guys, it looked like the competition were beating them pretty regularly during the last few years, and were going...

The Tweeter Home Entertainment Group will open its first Tweeter stores in Nashville, Tenn., and Charleston and Spartanburg, S.C., this month. Two stores are...

Despite a 14-point plunge in October’s Consumer Confidence Index to the lowest level since November 1993, the percentage of households planning to purchase a...

Former NATM Buying Corp. member Queen City TV & Appliance has rejoined the dealer group following a two-and-a-half-year absence. The chain, which operates 11...

In the days following Panasonic’s signing of a limited version of the POD Host Interface License Agreement (PHILA) with CableLabs, the president of the...

Continued subscriber growth and higher monthly revenue per subscriber accounted for a 19 percent increase in quarterly revenue at DirecTV, part of the Direct-To-Home...

Boosted by strong sales of digital cameras, desktop VAIO personal computers and CLIE personal digital assistants, operating income in the electronics segment at Sony...

Portable memory maker DataPlay officially closed its operation in mid-October after a failed last-minute attempt to secure additional financing. DataPlay’s final days were a...

Washington – EchoStar’s attempt to acquire Hughes Electronics and its DirecTV operation failed to gain regulatory approvals for the second time last week, when...

Santa Ana, Calif. – Ingram Micro’s North American sales dropped 12.1 percent in the third quarter, to $3.1 billion, down from $3.5 billion in...

Tokyo – Despite a lackluster global economy and slowing U.S. economy, Hitachi still was able to raise fiscal six month sales in its digital...

Tokyo – Sales in the recording media and systems division at TDK moved up 1.5 percent during the first half of the company’s fiscal...

Osaka, Japan – Sharp gains in video and audio equipment, namely televisions, camcorders and DVD players, helped push up second quarter sales of the...

Tokyo – Increased worldwide sales of home plasma displays, combined with a growing volume of digital cable television set-top boxes in the United States,...

Fort Worth, Tex. – RadioShack has started selling PlayStation2 Ultimate Entertainment Systems for the 2002 holiday season, the chain announced. The bundle system, which...

San Francisco – Dolby Labs announced an expansion of its consumer-marketing staff to increase consumer awareness of Dolby-technology benefits and to further its penetration...

New York – Despite a 14-point plunge in October’s Consumer Confidence Index to the lowest level since November 1993, the number of households planning...

New York – Former NATM Buying Corp. member Queen City TV & Appliance has rejoined the dealer group following a two-and-a-half-year absence. The chain,...

Tokyo – Pumped up by strong overseas sales of DVD players, car audio equipment, televisions and digital video cameras, the consumer electronics division at...

Tokyo – Overseas operations in consumer electronics, stimulated by healthy sales of large projection televisions in the United States, posted year-on-year sales growth for...