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Queen City To Open Second New Store This Year
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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Leaked Images & Details Of $49 Google Home Mini Publish
The Home Mini is clearly Google’s answer to the wildly popular Amazon Echo Dot. Despite carrying the same price point, Google is nonetheless faced...
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Apple’s Emergence As Chipmaker Will Likely Further Disrupt Its Competitors
The new A11 chip’s prominence reflects Apple’s deepening investment in chip design. Last week the company also revealed it had built new custom chips...
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Apple Cannibalizing Its Own iPhone Sales: Report
Financial services firm KGI Securities has been busy monitoring pre-orders of Apple’s new iPhone 8, which goes on sale this Friday. The verdict: Based on the...
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Amazon Tapping Kohl’s For Order Returns
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...
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Rockford Fosgate DSR1 Digital Signal Processor Now Available
TEMPE, Ariz. – Sept. 19, 2017 – Add horsepower to factory installed or aftermarket audio systems with the new DSR1 all-in-one digital sound processor!...
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Frigidaire Brand Kicks Off Relaunch With ‘Your House Rules’
As part of a “historic” pushfrom parent company Electrolux, Frigidaire unveiled the first ad in its new marketing campaign.
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Best Buy’s Secrets For Thriving In The Amazon Age
Yes, Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly cited well-known tactics like pricing strategies and consolidating operations. But did you know that the retailer even examined...
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Toys‘R’Us Joins Chapter 11 Club
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...
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Amazon Brings Hands-Free Alexa To New Fire HD 10
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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InFocus Debuts Jupiter Control 1000 Series Display Wall Processor at Almo Professional A/V’s Fall E4 AV Tour
InFocus Jupiter Control 1000 Series processors ship with award-winning Canvas collaborative visualization platform, can decode up to eight IP streams and support up to...
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Control4 Rolls Out Online Training for IP Network Installers with New Pakedge Certified Network Administrator (PCNA) Program
Salt Lake City, UT — September 19, 2017 9 a.m. ET – Control4Corporation (NASDAQ: CTRL), a leading global provider of smart home solutions, today...
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21st Century Distributing Now Carrying Beale Street Audio
In response to demand for superior custom speaker solutions, the full lineup is now available to dealers in the Southeast Garner, NC – September...
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CTA Signs ONC Interoperability Pledge
Arlington, VA, September 18, 2017 – Today, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), with the support of the its Health and Fitness Technology Division Board, signed...
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Toys‘R’Us Could File For Bankruptcy As Soon As This Week
Keeping items in stock could prove to be problematic for the toy chain during its crucial fourth quarter. “Toys R Us could file for...
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Home Concepts Wins 2017 CEDIA Award for Calgary Project Featuring ELAN
PETALUMA, CALIFORNIA, September 18, 2017 – Noted CI industry integration firm Home Concepts today announced that it has received the CEDIA 2017 Home Technology Professional Award...
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Apple, Samsung, Google Blitz Emmy Awards Show
If it felt like you were at an industry trade show during last night’s Primetime Emmy Awards broadcast you weren’t alone, as the tech and even the...
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The Wonders Of Mobile Checkout
One of the issues for all retailers is how to service their customers quickly so they don’t have to wait in line to check...
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How iOS 11 Will Improve Your Current iPhone
Apple confirmed that its new mobile operating system, iOS 11, will be available tomorrow. The new OS will bring augmented reality to existing iPhones...
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Live from PrimeTime: Connected CE With Nationwide’s Dean Sotille
Nationwide’s distribution and logistics senior VP discusses the benefits and challenges of indie retailers selling the smart home.
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Almo Professional A/V E4 AV Tour Brings The Brightest New AV Products to New York Sept. 19
Philadelphia, PA — Almo Professional A/V, North America’s largest professional audio visual distributor with global reach, is taking its E4 AV Tour on the...
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Walmart To Open New HQ In Bentonville
Walmart will open new headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., in order to better streamline its operations. According to Walmart Stores president/CEO Doug McMillon, the retailer...
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PHABRIX Adds ST 2110 IP Support to Qx Generator/Analyser Platform, and Strengthens 12G Physical Layer Analysis
BERKSHIRE, UK — Sept. 15, 2017 — PHABRIX today announced that it will be adding SMPTE ST 2110 IP support to its Qx generator/analyser...
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Cinevideo Equips 4K Truck With PHABRIX Qx 12G
BERKSHIRE, UK — Sept. 15, 2017 — PHABRIX today announced that Italian broadcast production company Cinevideo is installing the PHABRIX Qx 12G to serve...
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Italy’s Cinevideo sees the ‘Light’ with dual and redundant Artemis consoles on board new 4K truck
HEBDEN BRIDGE, U.K. — 15 September 2017 — Cinevideo, one of Italy’s foremost broadcast service providers and rental houses, has installed two Calrec Artemis...
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Square Box Systems’ Worker 7 Now Includes Plug-in Architecture for Streamlining Critical MAM Tasks in CatDV
WARWICK, U.K. — Sept. 15, 2017 — Square Box Systems, the company behind the industry-leading CatDV media asset management (MAM) system, today introduced a...
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How To Get The Best Deal On A New iPhone
If you’re willing to be locked into a contract, major carriers are offering great deals on the new Apple iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and...
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How Apple’s iPhone X Can Kick-Start Smart-Home Adoption
Apple’s new iPhone X will undoubtedly be one of the most fully featured phones on the market, but its role as the new brain...
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Wall Street Bets Amazon Will Doom Department Stores, Retailers
The report notes that although investors haven’t been this down on retail since 2008 and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, they’ve been wrong before (many...
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Talking With Nationwide’s Jeff Knock On Member Concerns
Knock knows its buying members and its retail members have ranging priorities and needs.
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Williams-Sonoma CEO Laura Alber: ‘I Do Not Believe Amazon Is Killing Retailers’
Not only does the store experience matter, Alber said, but customer satisfaction with delivery service is paramount. “Williams-Sonoma CEO Laura Alber is still bullish...
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Just Add Power 3G+4+ Tiling Transmitter Receives Industry Recognition at CEDIA 2017
LARGO, Fla. — Sept. 14, 2017 — Just Add Power (J+P), the leader in Ultra HD over IP, announced that its new 3G+4+ Tiling...
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Walmart Consolidating Store Operations
The moves come after a series of cost-cutting measures by the retailer. “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is reorganizing its U.S. store operations to simplify the...
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Biamp Systems Sheds New Light on Converged Networks at InfoComm India 2017
BEAVERTON, Oregon — Sept. 14, 2017 — Biamp Systems, a leading provider of innovative, networked media systems, has announced that Godwin Mathew, applications engineer...
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Black Friday Predictions: 4K TVs As Low As HD, Says DealNews
It’s not Black Friday (or Thanksgiving) without those TV doorbusters. DealNews, a consumer site that wades through retailer promotions all year long, expects upcoming...
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Samsung Earmarks $300M For Autonomous Driving
The world’s largest smartphone maker is breaking into the automotive technology world. “Samsung’s recent purchase of Harman opened up the auto space for the...
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Terri Schiek Appointed Sales VP Of Pelican Products Consumer Sales
CE accessory manufacturer Pelican Products has named Terri Schiek as sales VP of its U.S. consumer sales division. Schiek will be tasked with all...
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‘Conan’ Answers Questions On The iPhone X’s New Facial Recognition
“What’s the best way to remove the face?”
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ProSource Announces 2018 Events
SOUTHLAKE, TX — Sept. 13, 2017 — ProSource, the largest audio, video, and integration buying group in the country, announced today the dates and...
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PHABRIX Highlights SMPTE ST 2110 Support for Sx TAG Portable Hybrid IP/SDI Generator and Analyser
BERKSHIRE, UK — Sept. 13, 2017 — PHABRIX is enhancing the IP support of its Sx TAG portable hybrid IP/SDI generator and analyser to...
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Luxury Appliance Chain Pirch Shutting Half Its Showrooms
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...