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Surround Sound: A Look Back

DTS:X and Dolby Atmos are bringing excitement back to the component-audio business. We felt similar excitement 20 years ago when surround sound made its...

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Will IoT Live Up To The Hype?

Remember the dawn of the Internet? Remember all the skeptics who didn’t see its transformational genius? Remember how it became enormous? It’s happening again....

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On Starpower’s Success

The following is in response to“Have You Heard The News?”a recent letter by TWICE VP/publisher Ed Hecht. The real question that has haunted many retailers:...

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Musings On Cord-Cutting

Why must this be so complicated? Here’s what we want: HBO. AMC. Local sports. Some kind of children’s programming. (My older one will watch...

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TigerDirect Defanged

As RadioShack receives a new lease on life, a chapter closes on another less-storied technology chain. Systemax, the IT supplier, announced last month that...

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Return To Sender

Wrong color. Missing parts. Damaged. Ill-fitting. Returns are pretty much unavoidable in the world of online retail. Most merchants would agree they’ve had to...

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The End May Be Nigh For RadioShack

There are conflicting reports coming out of this week’s bankruptcy auction for RadioShack. Depending on whose unnamed sources you believe, either Standard General won the...

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Why CE Trade-in Programs Make Sense

Sales of smartphones totaled 1.2 billion units last year, according to Gartner. The opportunity for retailers to capitalize on this massive consumer electronics purchasing...

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Watch List

The Watch List is an ongoing series that focuses on CE start-ups reaching out to consumers via crowdfunding and other non-traditional methods. Freiya The...

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One More Thing…

Like probably everyone else in our little industry I listened live to the Apple launch event on Monday, and this phrase kept popping into...

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Apple Watch Features The Media Missed

The humorists at The Onion provided the following list of notable Apple Watch features that were overlooked in the launch hoopla: *       3-megapixel camera enables users to take...

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The Pebble In Apple’s Shoes

Well, it’s another bright, beautiful March here in Silicon Valley, which can mean only one thing: It’s time to get all excited about another...

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Microsoft Is Leaking

This has not been a good month for Microsoft, or so it would seem. Since International CES, the notoriously tight-lipped company has become a...

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Dish: Will It Buy Or Sell?

Dish is coming up against a hard deadline. Sometime in 2016, it must begin building out a cellular network in spectrum that it owns...

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RadioShack Revisited

Hey, we hate to kick a company when it’s down, but we just couldn’t resist the following twisted timeline from satire publication The Onion....

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Autosound Aftermarket Evolves Again

In the 1980s, the autosound aftermarket focused on luxury vehicles and teens/young adults. Then the luxury market gradually faded away as luxury automakers upgraded...

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Origins Of The OEM Databus

The OEM databus in cars got its start in the mid-1980s when automakers used the term “multiplexing” to describe how they would send control...

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