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Smart TV Sales Nudging Out Connected TV Devices
The number of people in the U.S. who will use a smart TV is expected to rise 10.1 percent from last year, to 168.1...
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Appliances
Russound Moves Into The Backyard
Russound is shipping its first landscape speakers meant for use in outdoor audio environments. The new 70-volt/100-volt/8-ohm AW4-LS-BR speaker, with a suggested retail of...
Computers
Worldwide PC Shipments Decrease for 11th Straight Quarter
HP is the global market share leader Worldwide PC shipments totaled 61.1 million units in the second quarter of 2017, a 4.3 percent decline...
Audio
Smart Speakers Set to Capture 30 Percent of U.S. Audio Market In 2017
Fun fact: Amazon is now the world’s largest audio equipment vendor. Thanks to the success of smart speakers with voice personal assistants (VPAs), the...
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Appliance Shipments Up 14%: AHAM
Appliance dealers loaded up on inventory in June in advance of the key July 4th holiday shopping period. According to the latest vendor data...
Accessories
Klipsch Adds Atmos Reference Speakers
Klipsch is bringing Dolby Atmos to its Reference line of home-theater speakers. According to the company, these will be the first two-way, horn-loaded Atmos-enabled...
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What Will The 2nd Half Bring? Growth, Says CTA
Consumer enthusiasm for technology is exceeding expectations and will drive the U.S. CE industry to an estimated 3.2 percent growth this year, according to...
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More Than Half of U.S. Households Subscribe To An OTT TV Streaming Service
Parks Associates reports that 59 percent of U.S. broadband households subscribe to an over-the-top (OTT) streaming service such as Netflix, Amazon or Hulu. The...
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Nationwide Kicks Off Its Largest Summer Event Ever
‘Get the Best for Less’ targets all-important summer share Nationwide Marketing Group kicked of a new promotional event to help its members grab additional...
Appliances
Bluetooth Mesh’s Debut Welcomed
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) new Bluetooth LE spec now supports mesh networking, making the wireless technology an option for largescale device networks....
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New Age Places Bets On Omnichannel, Smart Home
Tech retail may be a crapshoot these days, but New Age Electronics believes that a properly merchandised assortment of home automation, muscular laptops, drones...
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Independents Thrive As Box Stores Dive: Report
A retail apocalypse may be upon us, but it appears to be limited to big-box chain stores. According to an analysis by small-business advisor...
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Amazon-Kenmore Deal Portends Rough Seas For Sears … And The Appliance Biz
Alarm bells should have sounded throughout major appliancedom last month, when Sears Holdings found another retailer willing to sell its fading Kenmore brand of...
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New Sharp 4K UHD TV Line Now Shipping
The latest batch of Sharp Aquos TVs is hitting retail sales floors. The line, introduced by Hisense at CES, includes the mid-range 4K UHD...
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ProSource Membership Swells Past 550, Aiming For 800 Strong
ProSource, the $4.5 billion-plus buying group for specialty A/V dealers and custom integrators, added 15 new members last quarter, for a total of approximately...
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Apple Has The Most Productive Sales Floor In All Of Retailing
Best Buy and Walmart may be the two largest brick-and-mortar tech dealers around, but when it comes to sales floor productivity no one holds...
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Best Buy Adds Dyson In-Store Experiences
Latest addition in series of subsidized vendor shops Best Buy announced its latest in-store experience partnership: Dyson. The retailer will install about 90 Dyson...
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The 10 Headphones Brands Winning Online
When it comes to the business of selling headphones online, discoverability means a lot more than pegboards and end caps. In an exclusive report...
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LG’s $7B OLED Play Aimed Squarely At Samsung
LG Display’s production ramp-up of almost $7 billion to supply the market for OLED panels for smartphones through 2020 is yet another front on...
Appliances
LG Unleashed From The Dog Days Of Summer
It’s been a busy summer for LG Electronics USA, which in quick succession introduced an innovative new dishwasher, released a new trio of robotic...
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School Bells Ringing In The Dough For Tech Dealers
A pair of recent studies confirmed what CE retailers like to hear: back-to-school spending is expected to rise this year. Parents plan to spend...
Accessories
Phiaton Unveils New Bluetooth Headphones
Phiaton has unveiled its first new headphones since CES 2016. Targeted toward travelers and commuters, the on-ear BT 390 wireless headphones feature Bluetooth 4.1...
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Paying Via Facial Recognition? Consumers Say ‘Bring It On’
Survey indicates users growing comfortable with paperless transactions Consumers are ready and willing to embrace high-tech payment services, according to a recent study from...
Appliances
5 Selling Points to Get Customers to Adopt Smart Home (The Easy Way)
Smart home technology is becoming increasingly mainstream, but there remains a significant segment of consumers who are still on the fence about whether they...
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Fitbit Slips To No. 2 In Wearables
China’s Xiaomi became the world’s largest wearables vendor for the first time ever in the second quarter, according to research by Strategy Analytics. Xiaomi...
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Tablet Market Decline Slows
The tablet market showed some signs of life in the second quarter despite a continued downward spiral in overall sales. According to research from...
Buying Groups
Nationwide Bringing Smart Home To PrimeTime Show Floor
In its push to get its members up and running in home automation, the Nationwide Marketing Group will present a mock connected home on...
Appliances
Danby Appliances Entering Cannabis Biz
Danby Appliances is developing a new product line that is giving added meaning to “joint venture.” The Canadian majap maker is teaming up with...
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Otter Readies Its 1st Brick-And-Mortar Retail Store
Joining the trend of experimental brick-and-mortar, Otter Products will open its first retail store in its Fort Collins, Colo., hometown. The accessory manufacturer, best...
Industry
Jeannette Howe Heads To Transformative Engineering As Sales VP
Industry veteran Jeannette Howe has joined A/V and data communications device maker Transformative Engineering (T-E) as VP sales. Howe, most recently membership director of the BrandSource/AVB...
Financial
Apple Reports Record Growth For Services Division
It was another good quarter for Apple, even as consumers wait expectantly for the iPhone 8. The company announced its fiscal Q3 results on...
Appliances
LG’s QuadWash Will Bring NYC Its 1st Waterpark At Citi Summer Streets
LG Electronics USA does things in a big way. Case in point: the company’s new QuadWash dishwasher platform, which doubles up on the category’s...
Audio
Klipsch Adds Atmos-Ready Reference Speakers
Klipsch is bringing Dolby Atmos to its Reference line of home-theater speakers. According to the company, these will be the first two-way, horn-loaded Atmos-enabled...
Accessories
Phiaton Unveils BT 390 Bluetooth Headphones
Phiaton last week unveiled its first new headphones since CES 2016. Targeted toward travelers and commuters, the on-ear BT 390 wireless headphones feature Bluetooth...
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This Tech Dealer Has The Most Productive Sales Floor In All Of Retail
Best Buy and Walmart may be the two largest brick-and-mortar tech dealers around, but when it comes to sales floor productivity no one holds...
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Blink Zone Defense
Blink Zones are helpful in differentiating the uses you have for your Blink cameras. One benefit to have cameras on different systems is to...
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Blink XT One Camera System
The Blink XT One Camera System is engineered as a whole-home security system that is also extremely easy to setup and install. The battery-operated...
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Samsung Wisenet SmartCam D1 Video Doorbell
The SmartCam D1 Video Doorbell enables homeowners to have complete monitoring of their front door. Featuring human facial recognition and detection technology, the Wi-Fi-connected...
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SimpleTV Ends EPG Service For Cloud-Based DVRs
Tiburon, Calif.-based SimpleTV announced it’s shutting down the electronic program guide service associated with its Cloud-based DVR products. An early entrant in the Cloud-dependent...
Imaging
Nikon Giving Away $100,000 In College Scholarships; Honoring Instagram Photographers
Nikon will help cultivate the next generation of photographers and visual artists, in conjunction with the company’s 100th anniversary, by giving away $100,000 in...
Financial
Amazon Sales Rise 25% In Q2 To Reach $38 Billion
Amazon’s net sales increased 25 percent to $38 billion in the second quarter, ended June 30, compared with $30.4 billion in Q2 2016. But...
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Border Adjustment Tax (BAT) Is Dead For Now
The controversial border adjustment tax (BAT) is being put aside for the time being, according to a joint statement from the “Big Six.” House...