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...
Update your browser to view this website correctly. Update my browser now
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...
One of the happy accidents in covering this business is that you get to travel around the country, and during February I traveled to...
Long ago in 2008, Beats by Dre was launched to an unsuspecting world. Unsuspecting in that its approach to the audience was dramatically different....
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....
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:...
Late last year, Digital River commissioned Forrester Consulting to survey 130 executives and decision-makers at branded manufacturers in the U.S. and U.K. We wanted...
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...
John Wang, the former HTC executive who left the company in 2012, is back in the mobile market, but this time he’s not planning...
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...
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...
Playback of high-resolution 192kHz/24-bit music files — FLAC at least — turned up in the latest HTC One M9 flagship smartphone, and it could...
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...
This month should have been the coming out party for Meerkat. For weeks their video-sharing app had been spreading like wildfire, with positive reviews...
Today social media is more popular than ever, and that popularity is only going to increase. With the rise of smartphones and tablets, consumers...
Sure, extended warranties are often misunderstood by consumers and salespeople, but for retailers they can be used as a competitive advantage that can maximize...
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...
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...
More people are streaming online music into the car by connecting their smart phone to a car audio system, but among people who do...
Like probably everyone else in our little industry I listened live to the Apple launch event on Monday, and this phrase kept popping into...
Start-ups now have their own dedicated space on Amazon — provided they’re willing to be exclusive to the e-tailer. As the name indicates, Amazon...
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...
At both CES and MWC this year there was a clear design drive to make smartwatches look more like analogue watches in an effort...
The 2015 edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) emitted strong signals on the directions that the wireless market will take in 2015. Samsung...
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...
This week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we’re seeing a new generation of premium smartphones take the stage from tier-one vendors like Samsung...
Automakers have talked about combining Android Auto and Apple CarPlay in the same dash, but Ford will go a step farther by giving consumers...
I wrote a blog yesterday that wondered if a product like the Pebble Time is too big for Kickstarter. Will it make it extraordinarily...
For over a decade, the Commission has endeavored to protect and promote the open Internet. FCC Chairs and Commissioners, Republican and Democrat alike, have...
Sears chairman/CEO Edward Lampert brought investors up to speed on the company’s progress and strategies this morning in one of his intermittent and revealing...
Pebble nearly imploded Kickstarter this week when it debuted the latest generation of its smart watch, the Time. Within 32 minutes, the project hit...
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...
Dish is coming up against a hard deadline. Sometime in 2016, it must begin building out a cellular network in spectrum that it owns...
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....
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...
John Roach was chairman and CEO of RadioShack and its corporate predecessor Tandy during the chain’s glory years of 1983 through 1999. He penned...
I served as VP of merchandising, CE products, for RadioShack from September 2010 to December 2013. This was the last corporate position I held,...
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler delivered these remarks today on net neutrality at the Silicon Flatirons Center in Boulder, Colo. For the past several years,...
News of RadioShack filing for Chapter 11 is not a shock to many industry veterans and observers — and consumers — who began predicting...
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...
Today the consumer tech market generates over $230 billion a year in sales in the U.S. market alone. The Big Four of electronics retail...
Moving The Industry Forward 2015 will be a year of intense experimentation in new value propositions for advanced technologies and services. Multiple sectors within...
We are moderate football fans at my house, but preparations for this year’s Super Bowl are nonetheless underway. Our game menu is set, my...