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Two New TWICE Bloggers
Today maybe Halloween, but this isn’t a trick. Instead, we hope that for regular visitors to TWICE.com it will be a treat … or...
Amazon.com & Sales Tax
Does Amazon.com owe its profits to a massive tax-payer subsidy? That’s the argument from economist Dean Baker. According to Baker: While most stores must...
Merry Thanksgivoween*
Credit Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press, who came up a cartoon featuring a banner in front of a house with this phony...
Ken Crane’s Is Open In So. Calif.
In our coverage of the ongoing wildfires in Southern California yesterday, we contacted plenty of companies with consumer electronics operations in the region. One...
Wireless Photography: Why
The research firm IDC polled 500 digital camera owners for their thoughts on “wireless imaging.” The poll and resultant report was sponsored by Nikon. ...
Watching Television In A Theater
The story of television’s invention and the competing forces of inventor Philo Farnsworth vs. RCA’s Vladimir Zworykin in the zeitgeist of 1929 has been...
CE Travelogue
As I’ve said before, “Cover the CE industry, see the world.” That was never truer than my travels in the past three weeks. I’ve...
MP3 Founders Receive Nobel Prize
The 2007 Nobel Prize was given last week to two scientists who are credited with discovering the technology that makes MP3s and MP3 players...
CE Highlighted By Popular Mechanics
The CE category dominated the winners of Popular Mechanics Top 10 Most Brilliant Gadgets of 2007.
CEA Forum Draws Top Industry Execs
Attendees at the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Industry Forum this week has drawn top manufacturers, retailers and analysts to the scenic Hotel Del Coronado,...
Sirius/XM Merger Odds, Momentum
Here’s something to watch as we approach mid-October: the Sirius/XM merger. Citi Investment Research seems to think the deal has a better than 60...
EU Taxes HD Camcorders
From the “this is evidently not a joke” files … The European Union has decreed (they speak in no other language) that any manufacturer...
Ruining A Teenager’s Life
OnStar’s newest feature for the car needs to be taken to the next level. While it’s great the wireless technology can help catch car...
iPhone Raising Consciousness
Apple’s iPhone has sparked an intense discussion of the merits of locked vs. unlocked cellular phones. First, Tim Wu in Slate relays his experience...
Sunny Days, Sweeping The Cords Away
Better Energy Systems recently announced a neat product that’s being geared toward college students and adventure-types: the Solio Hybrid1000, a solar-powered power source. It...
Bunnies, Play-Doh And The Rolling Stones
As a card-carrying member of the TiVo generation, I rarely watch commercials anymore. But this European spot for Sony Bravia LCD TVs is definitely...
Scratch Fever
As filmed on YouTube, an owner of an iPod Touch takes a variety of sharp objects to his new device to demonstrate just how...
Notes From CEATEC JAPAN 2007
As I finish packing and prepare to take the long flight back to New York, here are some thoughts I had about my week...
CallVantage Kaput?
Could AT&T’s CallVantage VoIP service be shutting down? Consider: Russell Shaw reads Investor’s Business Daily and surmises, based on comments from AT&T executives, that...
More Juice, Please
More airports are installing charging stations where travelers can juice up their CE devices. This is a good idea considering how much time you’re...
The Gigapixel Digital Camera
You want a megapixel war? Say hello to my little friend:A tripod-like mount makes it possible for a digital camera to take hundreds of...
VoIP + Eavesdropping = New Business Model
A new Web site is promising free calls, provided they can listen in. Pudding Media’s Web site is a beta version of technology the...
CE Cares (Or Do We?)
Colleen Bohen’s blog earlier this week pointed out a move to bring computing to third-world children that is being attempted by the MIT Media...
DRM Backbiting Frenzy
Oh my. Paul Sweeting at Video Business (which is owned by TWICE parent company Reed Business Information) has a report from the Digital Rights Strategies...
You Get What You Give
The New York Times reported today that the One Laptop Per Child project will be launching a temporary “Give 1 Get 1” promotion that...
Sharp, Pioneer And Consolidation
Around the TWICE office we’ve always joked that we would not change the front page of our print issue on deadline “unless Sony buys...
Best Buy’s Unique Holiday View
Best Buy posted strong fiscal second-quarter sales and earnings this week; however, during its conference call with analysts, Jim Muehlbauer, chief financial officer of...
Amar Bose’s Half-Century Obsession
Amar Bose was completing his engineering doctorate at MIT in 1956 when he walked into one of two RadioShack stores in the country to...
The Digital Abyss
USA Today has an interesting piece running down how some average consumers are archiving their images and some of the pitfalls of digital storage:...
Here Comes The Sun
Solar-power for your computer is here. Granted, this contraption from the Advanced Energy Group, the Solar PowerPACII, weighs 86 pounds and needs to be...
FotoNation Gets the Red Out
Red-eye reduction and facial detection technology have gone from a niche to mainstream digital camera technology quite rapidly. FotoNation provides both technologies to camera...
iCryBabies
This is probably the best take I’ve yet read on the iPhone price cut (via Big Picture): Nobody forced anyone to buy an iPhone....
Endless Energy
When I read stories like this about new battery technology, I get a boost of confidence that maybe we can outsmart our way out...
Cellphone Empowerment Act
In our therapeutic culture, even cellphones need empowerment. At least that’s what I thought when I saw the news that there’s something called the...
Cutting the Cord
Comcast cut Internet service to heavy downloaders, according to this Washington Post story. Mind you, these customers weren’t engaged in illegal activity; they were...
CEDIA Quotes, Notes
There were a few good quotes during CEDIA Expo’s press conference day on Wednesday that I heard and I’d like to share. “TV… is...
Apple Upstaging CEDIA?
As yours truly, along with TWICE editors John Laposky, Joe Palenchar and Greg Tarr, prepare to tackle press day here at CEDIA Expo, could...
Gray is the New Green
Forget about the environment — it’s old people who will be driving the market for new technologies. During his IFA keynote, Philips CEO Rudy...
Designed to Sell
I went to IFA expecting a technology trade show, but the first day all anyone wants to talk about is design. Not that I’m...
Chicago Drops Broadband Plan
Chicago has ditched a plan to blanket the city with wireless broadband Internet, the Associated Press reported. The reason for the scrap — too...
Fedders Meant Room Air
At the beginning of this year’s air conditioning season in the Northeast, a relative who was in the market for an in-wall room air...