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Millennials Skipping Live TV In Favor Of On Demand
Millennials are eschewing live TV in favor of self-recorded and on-demand content, according to a new study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Fifty-five...
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Margin Makers: Fitbit Iconic
The company’s first smart watch employs Fitbit’s new proprietary OS and App Gallery app store, enabling consumers to download apps to the watch without...
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LG Adds Technicolor Expert Mode To All 2017 OLED TVs
LG and Technicolor teamed up to demonstrate 2017 OLED TVs at IFA 2017 featuring Technicolor Expert Mode, which displays colors optimized by Technicolor’s “color...
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Margin Makers: Coros Wearables Omni
The Omni hybrid smart cycling helmet employs openear bone-conduction technology on the straps, providing music, communication and data in a safe manner by sending...
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Margin Makers: Apple Watch Series 3
Apple’s newest smart watch is a stand-alone cellular device that packs a ton of new features, including a new dual-core processor that is 70...
Home Automation
iHome Securing The Smart Home With Its New Sensors & Plugs
SDI Technologies will soon begin shipping a series of smart sensors under its iHome brand, as well as a new smart plug for use...
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Alexa, Google Assistant & Other Voice UIs Come Into Their Own
This month’s CEDIA 2017 gave A/V products and custom-installed integrated systems more of a voice in the way they’re controlled. New products are on...
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Another One Takes The Hit …
Continuing an escalating if unnerving trend this year, Toys“R”Us, No. 21 on TWICE’s Top 100 CE Retailers Report, has joined the growing list of...
Buying Groups
NATM Firing On All 12 Cylinders
The NATM Buying Corp., the 12-member consortium of independent box stores, gathered in Dallas for its annual vendor conference earlier this month, pumped up...
Appliances
Washer Import Case Brought Out The Big Guns In Washington
Some of the biggest names in the appliance industry converged on Washington this month as Whirlpool’s anti-dumping crusade against Samsung and LG came to...
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Retailers Weather Hurricane Season With Replacement Sales
It may be small comfort to the tens of thousands of displaced families, but if there’s a silver lining to this year’s exceptionally harrowing...
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Best Buy Spicing Up Its Services Menu
Best Buy has seen the future of CE retail and it is tech services. At the company’s first investor conference since launching its Renew...
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… While Queen City Raises The Flag For Independents
While national chains are closing stores, Queen City Audio Video & Appliances is busy opening them. The Charlotte, N.C.-based independent, now in its 65th...
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Holiday Sales To Moderate As Digital Momentum Grows
The long runway to Christmas is underway, and prognosticators are wasting no time rolling out their fourth-quarter sales projections. One of the first out...
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Amazon Tapping Kohl’s For Order Returns, Tech Sales
Amazon will further wend its way into physical retail next month when 82 Kohl’s stores in Chicago and Los Angeles begin accepting product returns...
Appliances
Pirch Slips From Its Perch
Pirch, the ultra-premium kitchen, bath and appliance chain, is retrenching after nearly a decade of aggressive growth. The business, widely lauded for its 10...
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Hisense Shipping Next-Gen Roku TV
Hisense, which was among the first manufacturers to fully integrate Roku technology into TVs, has begun shipping the follow-up to its debut 1080p H4...
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The Implications Of The Long-Overdue Apple TV Update
For almost two years now, we’ve been waiting for Apple TV to catch up to the 4K/Ultra HD competition, including Roku’s Premiere+ and Ultra,...
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High-Res Audio Sales Growing Thanks To More Products, Lower Prices
High-res audio devices are seeing steady growth, The NPD Group said on Wednesday, and retailers can expect increased consumer awareness to continue this trend....
Accessories
She’s Like A Rainbow: Elevate Marks Rebrand With A Splash
Elevate is marking a new rebranding effort with a high-profile licensing partnership with the French Bull design company. The company, formerly PCT Brands (and...
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Vizio Wins Top Billing In Online-Selling Study
Vizio took home the gold in Brand View’s latest analysis of 4K TV online selling. As part of its exclusive market research for TWICE,...
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Beats’ Studio Wireless3 Headphones Get Apple W1 Chip
Beats by Dr. Dre has updated its top-of-the-line Studio Wireless headphones, adding the Apple W1 chip and upgrading the components. It also trimmed a...
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Amazon Brings Hands-Free Alexa To New Tablet
Amazon updated its Fire HD 10 tablet, the company’s largest model, giving the new version hands-free Alexa capabilities. It’s been one year since that...
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TWICE, Residential Systems Tap CEDIA Best Of Show
NewBay Media titles TWICE and sister brand Residential Systems have picked the CEDIA Best of Show winners for CEDIA 2017 in San Diego. These...
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Youthful TV Viewers Prefer Streaming Content
Yet another new survey of American consumers shows that live TV watching is becoming a thing of the past. The study, from Adobe Digital...
Keeping Current
T-Mobile, Sprint In Home Stretch Of Merger Talks
The on-again, off-again marriage between Sprint and T-Mobile appears to be a go, with an egagement announcement set for October. Under the plan, T-Mobile parent Deutsche Telekom would...
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Deloitte Forecasts A Merry Christmas For Retailers
Consumers’ income gains — and their propensity to spend it — should make for a jolly holiday season for merchants. According to Deloitte, the...
Accessories
Bose Builds Google Assistant Into QC35 II Headphones
Bose became the first headphones manufacturer to integrate Google Assistant into a pair of headphones. The company also introduced a new pair of...
Keeping Current
Amazon Moving Advertising Operations To New York
Amazon is taking 360,000 square feet of space in Manhattan’s new Hudson Yards complex to house its advertising team, which handles marketing, product, design...
Keeping Current
Wither HTC, Now That Google Bought Half Its Brain Trust?
Three years after Google sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo and outsourced its smartphone biz, the company is reassuming direct control of its handset destiny with the $1.1 billion...
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Apple’s iPhone 8 Goes On Sale Today: Who’s Going To Buy It?
The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus go on sale today, 10 days after being unveiled alongside the new flagship iPhone X. Unlike years...
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SMPTE and HPA Announce Official Selections for 2017 SMPTE-HPA Student Film Festival
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., and LOS ANGELES — Sept. 21, 2017 — SMPTE(R) , the organization whose standards work has supported a century of technological...
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Rockford Fosgate Ships New Rear Audio Bag Lid Kits for Harley Davidson® Models 1998-2013
TEMPE, Ariz. – Sept. 21, 2017 – Rockford Fosgate has the answer for those who have been thinking of adding rear speakers to Harley-Davidson®...
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From PrimeTime: The Future Of Smart Appliances
Derek Mattila, merchandising director for Nationwide, discusses the future of the connected appliances, and what it means for the retailers selling and installing them....
Keeping Current
Apple TV 4K Hands-On: Finally, No Compromises
The light shines bright for Apple TV in the upcoming holiday selling season: Initial reviews give the Apple TV 4K high marks for both...
Blogs
Top 3 Tips To Help Your Small Business Go Digital
Most small businesses fail to fully leverage an online presence to its full potential. Data published in 2016 revealed barely 1 in 4 small...
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Just Add Power Honors Powerful Leadership at CEDIA 2017
LARGO, Fla. — Sept. 21, 2017 — Just Add Power (J+P), the leader in Ultra HD over IP, honored its 2017 Representative of the...
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Quantum-Veritone Artificial Intelligence Solution Wins IBC2017 NewBay Best of Show Award
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sept. 20, 2017 — Quantum Corp. (NYSE: QTM) today announced that aiWARE(TM) for Xcellis(R), an on-premise and cloud version of...
Keeping Current
Amazon Preparing Alexa-Infused Smart Glasses: Report
Three years after Amazon hired Google Glass founder Babak Parviz, the e-tailer is reportedly working on its own version of smart glasses, albeit with...
Blogs
Why Location, Location, Location Still Matters In A Digital World
Procter & Gamble cut more than $100 million from its digital marketing ad spend in the June quarter. Why? Because the ads were “largely...
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Acoustic Innovations Launches Special 25th Anniversary Website Portal
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Sept. 19, 2017 — Acoustic Innovations, the industry’s premier designer, manufacturer, and installer of home theater seating, personal home theaters,...
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MATRIX Labs Joins Z-Wave Alliance; Announces Z-Wave Plus Certification for MATRIX Creator IoT Development Platform
MIAMI, FLORIDA, September 20, 2017– Following the successful launch of its MATRIX Creator Raspberry Pi-based dev board, that allows for the fast, efficient and affordable development of simple-to-complex IoT...