The 3D Mirage
3DTV is a non-starter for three reasons. 1. Bandwagon marketing. 3DTV came along about the same time as the proliferation of 3D theaters and...
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3DTV is a non-starter for three reasons. 1. Bandwagon marketing. 3DTV came along about the same time as the proliferation of 3D theaters and...
For the last few weeks I thought Hurricane Sandy had managed to knock Microsoft’s Redmond campus off the power grid. The almost total lack...
Brooklyn, N.Y. – I realized only on Wednesday that I had a perfect view of one of the iconic images of Hurricane Sandy outside...
Changes put in place by Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly and announced late yesterday were initially surprising, but upon reflection 24 hours later, not...
If Best Buy’s Facebook account can be believed, the retailer will enter the tablet PC market on or around Nov. 11. The announcement itself...
Smartphones are quickly becoming an important tool for voters to follow campaigns, discuss issues and connect directly with a politician running for office. According...
Last week Randy Fry, president of Fry’s Electronics and chairman of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), sent out an email to the organization’s staff...
Dick Schulze, founder and former chairman of Best Buy, sent the chain’s board another letter today requesting permission to form a group and “conduct...
The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) issued a press release on an op-ed piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal by U.S. Senator Jim DeMint...
Google has its Nexus-brand tablet and smartphones and thought it could get into the home audio market with a wireless music streamer dubbed the...
That’s the headline of a blog posted today by Herb Greenberg, CNBC senior stocks commentator, where he makes the case that consumers really need...
There is nothing more fun than extrapolating a trend from a single source of information and broadly interpreting it to make a larger point,...
Tablets and smartphones are making TV an even more enjoyable experience, but the industry is only scratching the surface to take advantage of this...
News of the passing of Masaharu Matsushita, 99, longtime president and later chairman of Matsushita chairman of Electric Industrial Company – which was renamed...
At the invitation and as a guest of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), I attended SINOCES last week, of which the CEA is the...
More technology doesn’t always mean better technology, as data from the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) purports. Although such car safety tech as forward...
Ramsey, N.J. – Photo accessories supplier Manfrotto Distribution has donated $20,000 to the Wounded Nature – Working Veterans charity, as a result of a...
Sony and Samsung set stricter pricing policies aimed at limiting discounts on their televisions. Consumer electronic sales slip at Sears. Best Buy closes 50...
Apple is said to be moving to a smaller 19-pin port on its next iPhone, likely guaranteeing that the next iPhone won’t be able...
“Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy night!” – Margo Channing, Broadway diva (played by Bette Davis) from the 1950 classic film...
Recent announcements by Google and Apple have many people wondering whether the dedicated portable navigation device (PND) is doomed. I’m not one of them....
The New York Times took a look at 2011 proxy filings and released a list of the 200 top-paid CEOs in corporate America. While...
In marking the fifth anniversary of iPhone’s debut on June 29, Gazelle, the CE trade-in site, released a survey today saying the following: “When...
The CE market seems to be plagued with bad news these days. With sales volumes squeezed, retailers struggling, longstanding categories on the edge of...
Remote car monitoring is moving into the baby arena, where one manufacturer has equipped a car seat with a monitoring system that will send...
After pouring Simply Smart milk on my Smart Start cereal, I turned on my Smart TV. Smartness shouldn’t be applied so loosely. Ever train...
Consumer electronics retailers have been looking to different industries to generate incremental business opportunities during the economic doldrums but there may be a new...
Following breakout successes like the app-enabled Pebble E-Paper Watch and 3D printer Printrbot, which have raised over $10 million and $830,000 from everyday Internet...
Backers of the Blu-ray Disc format said that streaming entertainment is still a long way from strangling the business for high-def video discs, and,...
Logitech has given more details on its workforce reductions, which it first announced in April as part of an earnings announcement. The computer peripheral...
What was going to happen next year, happened today and for those who have been in the industry for a while it is a...
There is an old myth that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini made the trains in his country run on time. Anyone who has been to...
In the cellular industry, will Apple become the next Nokia or Motorola? Remember when Motorola was on top of the handset heap in the...
“Made in USA”. During my lifetime that label has morphed from being a reason to buy, to being a reason not to buy, and...
Yes, I know, Target, Kohl’s and Kmart are also turning 50 this year. But today is Walmart’s annual shareholders’ meeting and pep rally in...
Smartphone adoption is helping drive up the number of tweets that Twitter users are posting each day, although the overall adoption of the social...
A changed market has created new problems and complicated ongoing challenges for retail. CEA’s Retailer Council and its audio-video retailer division are offering help...
I returned a call this morning to a CE Hall of Famer who picked up his phone with his distinctive New York accent —...
The news from Best Buy yesterday was a jolt to start the work week – Dick Schulze, founder and chairman of the chain, will...
There are quite a few surprising findings from our recent quarterly TraQline study of both prepaid and postpaid (contract) wireless phones. The most surprising...
Do you know what CE Newswire is? Obviously, more than a few of you do based on the open rates for this relatively new...
My last post was only one of many similar recently debating the role store size plays in a retailer’s financial performance. If you missed...