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The way manufacturers in CE and other consumer product industries tell it, getting onto Walmart’s vendor matrix is like running a gauntlet, only tougher....

Rearview video systems have been added to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s list of Recommended Advanced Technology...

As a jaded tech reporter, my first reaction to TV coverage of the lines outside Apple Stores this morning was “Really?” Aren’t there any...

Here are a few pleasant thoughts for the next time you find yourself under a desk attempting to reset your router or trying to...

For retailers, holiday advertising is like a game of reverse chicken: to see who can jump in first rather than pull away last. We’ve...

 Samsung is preparing to launch its first smartwatch, and Apple is rumored to be developing its first smart watch.  But for all the hype,...

Nearly one third of college students and recent grads have either broken or had their mobile devices stolen, a new Google Survey shows. The...

El Segundo, Calif. — Even as the market for the first curved organic light-emitting diode (OLED) TV sets begins to emerge, display markers are...

I think there is hope for Sears. Yes, the chain lost $279 million during the first quarter; it has to find new uses for...

Best Buy is fighting fire with fire. The No. 1 CE chain, which has been ceding share to online retailers, has updated its mobile...

With the CEDIA Expo coming up next month, I decided to turn on the Wayback Machine to travel back to the 2003 Expo for...

Much wringing of hands continues in the broadcast and multichannel TV service industries over the growth of over-the-top (OTT) TV viewing activity as services...

Motorola. Nokia. BlackBerry. The Novatel of the ‘90s. H.H. Scott. Fisher. Zenith. Admiral. These were high-flying consumer electronics and cellphone companies whose market shares...

Written off as dead by some people only a few years ago, component audio has been resurrected, the latest CEA forecasts show. Combined sales...

OK, so let’s stop blaming our love of big-screen TVs for wasting energy and growing global greenhouse gases (at least in Al Gore’s yard)....

Here are four scary factoids. *About 25 percent of the 4 million Android apps currently available pose a security threat. *About 40 percent of...

Just like the South, where the Richmond, Va., CE chain was once based, Circuit City may rise again. Current owner Systemax has put the...

The following blog was written in 2007 after Dr. Amar Bose appeared before a group of journalists invited to his Framingham, Mass, headquarters to...

The National Retail Federation’s house publication, STORES, has released its annual Top 100 Retailers report, based on overall 2012 U.S. retail sales. The report...

As CE devices continue to shrink while adding computing power, the logical assumption is that carrying your gear around should be getting easier. Nothing...

Judging by the number of pitch emails I’ve received since International CES, Bluetooth “leashes” are exploding in popularity. Here are some recent additions to...

Proxy statements have been sent to Best Buy shareholders, who, among other pieces of business, are being asked to vote in a new slate...

The Boston terror attacks may have pulled the news media’s attention away from the shenanigans of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, but IHS iSuppli...

The life of the CE industry flashed before my eyes last week as I roamed through the back roads of the Appalachian Mountains in...