A World Lit Only By Fire
One in five households has never used email, according to Parks Associates. Can you imagine life without email? I think it would look something...
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One in five households has never used email, according to Parks Associates. Can you imagine life without email? I think it would look something...
According to the National Federation of Retailers, consumers are going to spend most of the tax rebate on gas and groceries, not goodies. Rebate...
I read with great interest today TWICE Editor Alan Wolf’s report that Blockbuster and billionaire investor Carl Icahn may be offered the chance to...
CNN.com is running a story about the popularity of unlocked, and expensive, iPhones in Israel. From the article: “Z-Tov sells the 8GB iPhone for...
Toshiba will start shipping a micro-sized nuclear reactor for use by small towns or individual buildings later this year. In fact, the company intends...
I have always felt that the Grand Theft Auto video game series not only adds little to our society, but in fact is terribly...
A sad story out of Canada, apparently a family dialed 911 over their VoIP line when their toddler was in distress. They were told...
USA Today quotes some experts to that effect: “You could buy a lot of crayons for $60,” says Susan Linn, director of the children’s...
The Consumer Electronics Association’s (CEA) economist Shawn DuBravac notes that about 20 percent of consumers plan to spend some portion of their forthcoming tax...
Yesterday I was pleased to attend the kickoff press conference for this year’s Hope For Education program, developed by Samsung. Since it began in...
Cloud computing is all the rage these days. Microsoft is working on a program to connect your personal data across a multitude of platforms....
Rich Tehrani (via DSLreports) hears rumors that Google will purchase Skype from eBay. Aside from that, Tehrani offers some interesting ways that Skype could...
Like the swallows at Capistrano, or more precisely the dandelions on my lawn, the chorus of investors and analyst types calling for GE to...
We’re all familiar with the trajectory here: Every year flash-memory speeds get speedier. Now it seems the CompactFlash card, used in many consumer and...
Slate’s Mickey Kaus sees diabolical ingenuity at work in the rollout of Windows Vista.
IBM says their experimental “Racetrack” memory could be it, in ten years or so. Hit the link for details. Short version: it has all...
Like many others, a day after the announcement that Blockbuster put in a bid to buy Circuit City, I’m still scratching my head. I...
The D&M rumors continue to fly in fast and furious from Japan. It could still be another illustration of what news coverage has become...
Private-equity companies Bain Capital and Advantage Partners are the latest companies said to be interested in buying the 49 percent stake in D&M Holdings...
While it is always good news when a company posts a quarterly profit, sometimes it doesn’t tell the entire story. Such is the case...
Two former presidential candidates and the Declaration of Independence put in guest appearances here at last week’s CTIA Wireless 2008 convention. Ex-candidates John Edwards...
Seriously. Here’s the news release: Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) today announced that it has named Jennifer Cisney as the company’s first chief blogger. Cisney...
Skype has long been pushing to transform the nation’s wireless network into something akin to the POTS network — wherein any device or application...
I say no. Sorry if this upsets everyone in the industry, but I just can’t go along with the government’s plan to spend at...
Two days ago I attended a wake. During the wake my cellphone rang (well, buzzed actually.) I couldn’t answer the first call, but shortly...
Adobe has introduced a free online version of its Photoshop software called Photoshop Express, according to a TWICE story. I haven’t been able to...
Finally. After months of sitting around waiting and copy editing endless variations on “XM/Sirius Still Optimistic About Merger” stories, the Department of Justice’s approval...
Consumer electronics prices across the board will be going up this year. (Let me repeat that in italics, so you can re-read it with...
It seems as if Mark Wattles, the boss of both Wattles Capital Management and Ultimate Electronics, will have some company in trying to change...
“One of the most significant electronics products of the year.” That’s how the New York Times’ David Pogue describes Pure Digital’s Flip Camcorder. Of...
Here is another reason why car manufacturers had such a high-profile presence at International CES this year. Toyota and Panasonic are working together to...
While the Internet is a source of pre-purchase research, blogs don’t seem to have made much of an impact, according to Jupiter Research (via...
A Reuters analysis put the company’s worldwide digicam biz under the microscope. Some of the more intriguing tidbits: The company more than doubled its...
Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics, commented during last week’s media roundtable in New York that while Warren Buffett may think the economy is...
Cue the doom music. Earlier I noted the analysts at ChangeWave had some survey data on corporate IT spending that did not bode well...
According to reports from Japan, Pioneer is finalizing plans to halt production of plasma display panels (PDP) as early as this year due to...
Nike and Apple announced today that they are working with gym equipment manufacturers and health clubs to enable members to plug their iPod Nano...
PMA is reporting that the drugstore channel gained print volume market share in the fourth quarter of 2007. They grew from 27 percent in...
Here’s the headline from yesterday’s New York Times business section: “Unbound, Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write a Blunt and Unfiltered Blog.” For someone like me —...
Recently while standing in line at the customer service counter of my local Pathmark supermarket, I overheard a mom ask the sales person if...
This month marks the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the HP Deskjet printer. Just to take a stroll down memory lane, the first...
Not exactly a news flash, I know. But here’s some more bad news: Digital camera sales took it on the chin in December, according...