A New Vision For RadioShack
A few weeks ago TWICE retail editor Alan Wolf commented upon a theory that Dell and RadioShack are potentially made for each other. Not...
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A few weeks ago TWICE retail editor Alan Wolf commented upon a theory that Dell and RadioShack are potentially made for each other. Not...
Before Al Gore invented the Internet, TWICE editors occasionally popped up in the print issue to offer their thoughts on a recent encounter with...
That appears to be the up-shot of this report on a presentation given by Kodak CEO Antonio Perez. Kodak’s CMOS technology...
Both Kodak and Shutterfly have announced partnerships with Target to provide the retailer with online digital imaging services. The enterprising folks at the Consumerist...
Over the years I’ve been to my share of buying group meetings, but in all the years I’ve visited with NATM, MARTA, Key America...
Whenever you see the words “typology” in the title, you know you’re in for an exhaustive look. And Pew Research’s A Typology of Information...
Probably many noticed with interest that Matsushita, worldwide marketers of the Panasonic brand and the leader in plasma TV, posted a 41 percent net...
A BusinessWeek commentary by senior writer Peter Burrows proposes an elegant solution to the dilemmas besetting Dell and RadioShack: a merger. Dell, which is...
Is One Killing the Other? There was an interesting comment on one of our “Talkback” threads which I think is worth calling out. It...
Timothy Lee has an interesting column in the American on the current course of patent law in technology, using the Vonage/Verizon dispute as his...
Thirteen-year-old Morgan Pozgar of Claysburg, Pa., has been named the LG National Texting Champion. After beating out more than 300 fellow competitors, Morgan was...
Micro Center’s announcement last week that it will take over up to 10 former CompUSA stores is giving some enterprising business grad student looking...
Consumer electronics can provide entertainment, help educate and enable communication on such a scale that in our lifetime the world has become what some...
Jim Sinegal, CEO of Costco, is a 21st Century Sam Walton of sorts. His low-key style, his regular visits to every store, and his...
That’s the rumor. (Sprint-Nextel is also suing Vonage over patent infringement and a buyout is one possible way to settle.) IDC analyst Will Stofega...
In-Stat asked around and apparently found not much interest: Wi-Fi-only phones could theoretically replace cellular phones for some users, but respondents that participated in...
The LA Timeshas an editorial on the FCC’s forthcoming spectrum auction : The FCC’s goal for the auction should be to...
Trade shows are the place to connect with your industry, but the CTIA Wireless show has become a place to connect with the movers...
I’m a little late coming to the $1million laptop that has popped up on the Web. Just in case you missed it, a U.K....
… or a profitable $999 42-inch flat-screen TV. Someone had to pay the price for those “Red Friday” deals, and the pricing schemes since...
Wherein I Toot My Own Horn. Greg Scoblete, Feb. 7: If the music industry were smart, they could do some clever price tiering. Music...
Score one for cable subscribers: Major League Baseball announced that it had come to an agreement with In Demand to offer out-of-market games. Good...
In my career writing for business publications and web sites two subjects are never discussed: politics followed closely by religion. But the speakers at...
Will a new inkjet technology revolutionize printing? The inkjet printer industry is starting to sound a bit like eighteenth century France with all its...
We all know the tried-and-true bromide that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” While I understand this intellectually, I don’t have to like...
We reported on an iSuppli report released earlier this week indicating that there will be some let-up in the over supply of flash memory...
New York — Wired takes a unique look at how hi-def film is changing television production at NBC’s “30 Rock.” For me, the article...
Looks like the Europeans will get their hands on the EX-Z11 from Casio before us (if we get it at all — a Casio...
An Open Question to Readers… A consumer group in Britain has released a report on the state of energy efficiency in consumer electronics (here,...
News today of Tweeter closing 49 stores, two regional facilities and leaving five states within two to three months should not be a surprise...
Refusing to give up without a fight, In Demand said it will offer to match DirecTV’s deal in order for the Major League Baseball...
Flash-memory makers are signaling the end of a venerable computing maxim. Is Moore’s Law toast? Reuters says maybe not for computer processors but possibly...
Why don’t CE retailers push in-store printing? One of the interesting paradoxes of the digital imaging marketplace is the fact that consumer electronics stores...
Microsoft has positioned its own standard as a replacement. We try not to get too deep into the weeds when it comes to standards...
This is a letter sent to TWICE by Debi Holland about her store’s on-going battle with Best Buy. I felt compelled to write you...
No one ever said it was easy making a buck in the consumer electronics industry. There were three reminders in the past couple of...
(This is a quick addendum to my previous weather-related post.) Big-box retailers blamed the cold weather for their poor February sales. Is there anything...
There are few things more satisfying than buying something and being able to get it up and running without a major outburst of cussing,...
Look out Geek Squad? I used to scoff (privately) when vendors would tell me that many people don’t even get photos off their memory...
Couple of items to report on the Vonage front. First, the company has quietly announced its first annual calling plan. It’s been offered only...