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When the news broke on President’s Day that Sirius and XM agreed to bury the hatchet and merge, it was a surprise, yet it...
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When the news broke on President’s Day that Sirius and XM agreed to bury the hatchet and merge, it was a surprise, yet it...
Skype is petitioning the FCC to force cellular carriers to allow consumers to use their VoIP service over a carrier’s data plan (hat tip:...
I gleefully blogged earlier this month about ordering satellite TV and giving my cable provider the old kiss-off — sadly, it was not meant...
Adobe plans to embed some of its video editing software on popular digital media Web-sites, starting with Photobucket, in the hopes of driving more...
I think the headline is an offshoot of the old recruitment ad, “Join the Navy, See the World.” The same is true for journalists...
The New York Times’ David Pogue has a fairly good takedown of the “megapixel myth” but I think he conveys a not altogether accurate...
A moment of peace and solitude is hard to find in New York City and if N.Y. State Senator Carl Kruger has his way,...
Three stories popped up today concerning CE proving how “ubiquitous” the industry’s products have become in everyday life. Here they are: Jobs Favors Free...
Steve Jobs thinks the music industry should do whatever it takes to make Apple money. I mean, he thinks they should abandon copy protection....
The digital media floodgates are starting to crack open. Apple’s Steve Jobs’ call for less DRM for music, along with the Amazon/TiVo deal that...
Two recent interesting takes on the stickiness of copyrights in the digital age: First, outlining the potential mother of all copyright cases, Jeffrey Toobin...
I don’t consider myself a spiteful person, but when it comes to my cable TV provider, all bets are off. After nearly three years...
Fujifilm shaved $100 off the suggested retails of the FinePix S9100 and FinePix S6000fd digital cameras. The models drop to a suggested $499 and...
Some blogs have picked up on a new Samsung camera – the i70 – which, among other things, is equipped with HSDPA (high speed...
That’s one way to interpret the news that Taiwanese OEMs are ramping up their production, according to this DigiTimes report (hat tip: Imaging Resource)....
I’m not sure if the proposal to list on the National Register of Historic Places the garage where William Hewlett and David Packard established...
The Internet can be a double-edged sword capable of bringing in a great deal of wealth or disaster as Wisconsin-based Discount-Mats.com discovered. According to...
International CES celebrated its 40th anniversary in Las Vegas earlier this month with many of its old friends — established consumer electronics manufacturers, retailers...
The news that the Chinese have successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon increases the possibility (albeit a very remote one) that a military conflict would...
The best technologies at CES aren’t always the flashiest (sorry all you 100-inch-plus TV makers, I only have a 10-foot by 12-foot family room)....
Is Hollywood more concerned with piracy or with using digital rights management (DRM) to create a “forced scarcity” to generate new revenue streams for...
New York — I have survived my first CES and now that I’m back in town, I wanted to take a minute to share...
The International Consumer Electronics Show, CES for short, celebrates its 40th year with this week’s show. For me, this show marks a personal milestone...
I am nearing completion of my first day of my first-ever CES. It turns out that everyone who said that this thing was huge...
Welcome to the 2007 International CES. As we’ve probably mentioned on several special occasions over the years, the consumer electronics industry changes more often...
CES News Breaks Before CES Midway through what seems to be an all-day Continental Newark-to-Las Vegas flight, our pilot tells us that it is...
Hollywood execs yesterday gave their collective thumbs up to a new encryption system that they say is strong enough to allow movies to be...
Kodak has released a rather amusing internal infomercial onto YouTube hoping to drum up excitement for its forthcoming digital cameras. While it doesn’t mention...
I get inundated on a regular basis by companies pushing new software titles, but yesterday I ran across something new. While helping assemble the Pinewood...
Who wants more megapixels? Everyone, apparently. According to a survey from ChangeWave Research (pdf), more megapixels is far and away the most sought after...
My well-designed plan to start and finish all my Christmas shopping the week prior to the holiday was wiped out by a case of...
The conventional wisdom has it that consumers buy surround sound systems for their immersive effect. While that’s no doubt overwhelmingly true, the Consumerist offers...
Our friends at The NPD Group this week released a study pointing out that downloading video from free peer-to-peer (P2P) services is outpacing downloads...
In a world where parents of teens and pre-teens attack coaches and opponents of their children’s teams, where road rage has escalated to shootings,...
Based on internal survey data, I know that many of our readers are skeptical about blogs. But now that Time Magazine has named me...
Welcome to TWICE’s newly designed Web site. If you were able to find your way into this blog area, you can see that there...
Just a quick welcome to my Reporter’s Notebook. As you can see, TWICE has a brand-new Web site, and so we are trying out...