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The Best Tweets Dissing Amazon’s PrimeDay
To say today’s much-hyped ZOMG!-better-than-Black-Friday Amazon PrimeDay event was disappointing to Prime Members may be an understatement, at least if the Twitter world is...
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Predictions About Amazon Prime Day
Amazon plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its launch with Prime Day, which will offer Prime members a series of flash deals from...
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Collaboration Is Key With IoT
For many years, members of this industry have been wary about sharing their intellectual property with others. They believed doing so would jeopardize their...
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Pioneer: Why We Need CarPlay, Android Auto
Apple CarPlay and Android Auto will make the roads safer, Pioneer contends in releasing the results of a survey of more than 2,000 consumers...
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What’s In A Name
I have spoken to many tech founders recently and have noticed a trend worth talking about for a moment. The discussion generally happens as...
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Going All-In To Combat Cellular Confusion
Understanding a phone bill wasn’t easy back when the landline-phone monopoly calculated the price of a call by something called message units. It hasn’t...
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Talk To The Tablet
Let me set the scene: Philadelphia airport, F concourse, Friday afternoon and I am heading home after a long week of training. I had...
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Tech Commercials Among Those Honored At Cannes
I’m a sucker for a good commercial. The Oscars of the advertising world were given out this weekend in Cannes, France, at the 2015...
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Android Auto, Apple CarPlay: One Head Unit Is Better Than Two
Stuffing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto into the same head unit makes sense, so much so that automakers and aftermarket suppliers are ramping up...
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Gay Marriage Gets Support From Tech & Retail
Today’s landmark decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the legality of same-sex marriage was the culmination of decades of struggle. And, in the...
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An 84-Inch TV Review … From 1975
In a recent effort to get rid of clutter, files and whatever around our home — and when you live someplace for 30 years...
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2nd Half Upbeat As Consumers, Trade Embrace New Tech
As we look back at the last six months and turn to toward the second half, there are plenty of hopeful signs for the...
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GetGeeked San Francisco
Last week I attended GetGeeked here in San Francisco. If you’re not familiar, GetGeeked is like a consumer tech meet-up with drinks and food....
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Pitching Sam’s Club: An Insider’s Account
In this week’s issue of TWICE we reported on a novel sourcing program that Sam’s Club launched last year in its quest for novel,...
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You Break It? No Problem. Fuhu Answers Parents’ Wishes
Because I cover CE toys, I’m often asked what I think is the best tablet for a child. The scenario typically goes something like...
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10 Surprising Things We Learned From Our Father’s Day Survey
When it comes to Father’s Day gifts, power tools, neckties and whiskey are bound to be high on most dads’ wish lists. Or are...
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Why (And How) Retailers Should Embrace ‘Nomophobia’
People are addicted to their smartphones. So much so, there is now a clinical term for the psychological attachment some people have to their...
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Pomp And Circumspection
So here’s my question: When is your son or daughter old enough for a cellphone? In the town I live in in New Jersey,...
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The Internet Of Things: What’s Old Is New Again
You think the Internet of Things (IoT) is something new? Think again. Back in the 80s when cellular was young and analog, and before...
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The Times They Are A-Changin.’ Finally.
A confluence of key retail events this month – the annual ProSource Spring Meeting in San Antonio and Walmart’s shareholders’ gathering in Arkansas –...
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Is Your Brand The Charm Or The Bracelet?
“We want to be Apple.” There is no sentence we fear more in our business than this. It’s our version of “Make the logo...
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The Debut, And Disconnect, Of CES Asia
Ni hao from Shanghai! I’m writing from the first-ever CES Asia, where about 25,000 attendees, a vast majority from China and other Asia Pacific...
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‘Thread,’ ‘Weave’ Leave Me In Stitches
If anything, the folks in the home-automation business are a clever bunch when it comes to naming their technologies. Google calls its new IoT...
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Changing Role Of Buying Groups Takes Another Turn
When I started to write about how buying groups have changed I realized it is thirty years this spring since I attended my first...
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Some Staggering Statistics About Our Technology World
While CES Asia was light on news and heavy on schmooze, many of the keynoters and speakers shared proprietary data on the staggering size...
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Dealing With Disruption
The widespread impact from the labor dispute at West Coast ports earlier this year is still rippling through the U.S. economy, with many companies...
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The 10 Worst Retail Sales Habits And How To Break Them
We’ve all tried to spend more hours at the gym, or give up sugary drinks, but as anyone who’s ever tried knows, bad habits...
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Why Wall-E Is Scarier Than The Terminator
Last month was the Internet of Things Conference in San Francisco, where the vast floor of the Moscone Center was filled with companies trying...
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The Case for Live Training
Let me start by saying that I completely understand the need for computer-based and virtual training in today’s retail environment. Shrinking margins and decreased...
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The Top 10 Technology Moments From “Late Night With David Letterman”
David Letterman is a self-described technophobe, which made the technology business an easy target for his humor over the years. On the occasion of...
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Digital Living: IoT & The Connected Consumer
For consumers around the world, the Internet of Things (IoT) opens the door to a new and convenient connected lifestyle. The wide range of...
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The Best And Worst Of Times For Dealers
It’s a classic glass-half-full, glass-half-empty scenario for CE retail. As TWICE’s annual Top 100 CE Retailers Report shows, the largest merchants selling consumer-tech goods...
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Privacy In The Digital World
What does it mean when we talk about privacy in the information age? Does “privacy” mean the same thing it did 20, even 10...
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Ring A Ding Ding
Ring A Ding Ding was the title of a 1961 album by Frank Sinatra, and it came to mind when I sat down to...
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PNDs: Still Room In The Glove Box
Back in October 2009, when Verizon unveiled its first Motorola-made Droid-brand Android phone, Google shocked the navigation world by incorporating free Google turn-by-turn driving...
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Watch List: Linkitz
The Watch List is an ongoing series that focuses on CE start-ups reaching out to consumers via crowdfunding and other non-traditional methods. Linkitz...
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The Three Reasons People Still Love Nokia
As we steam into summer, we are about to see the annual appearance of veteran rockers strapping on the guitars for one more round...
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Google Fi: A Retail Opportunity?
If Google is serious about building a large subscriber base for its low-price Fi MVNO service, the technology giant will consider expanding distribution through...
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The Apple Watch Offers Retailers Another Path to Customers
The Apple Watch recently started shipping to consumers who placed online orders with the tech giant. According to early estimates, almost a million people...
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CE Antiques Roadshow
No, I am not referring to certain members of the TWICE staff. I’m referring to the treasure trove of CE-industry artifacts that have accumulated...
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Retail Revisited: Keeping Showrooms Relevant
Showrooming has plagued brick-and-mortar retailers for many years, with e-commerce quickly chipping away at in-store sales. Recently however, experts report the rising trend is...
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Reminder: Sell The Season Webinar Replay!
I just want to remind everyone that TWICE’s instructive “Sell The Season” webinar is now available for complimentary replay. You can register here. Senior editor Alan Wolf...