Audio
Latest Multiroom Products Hit Multiple Niches
Suppliers are staking out multiple positions in the wireless multiroom-audio market with their latest product launches, with some companies focused on mass-market products and...
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news
What Samsung Brings To Its New Gear S2 Smart Watches
S2 and S2 Classic add circular display, rotating bezel to control apps Samsung is dropping the curved rectangular display of its Gear S smart...
news
Tablet Screen Sizes Grow As iPad Pro Beckons
Bigger is better in many things, including tablet sizes, at least among a growing number of North American consumers. North American shipments of tablets...
Accessories
Sharkk Sinks Teeth Into Portable Audio, Plans Home Automation
Sharkk, founded in late 2012 as a direct-to-consumer accessories supplier, is changing its product focus and go-to-market strategy, founder and CEO Dov Brafman told...
news
Paul’s TV Founder Paul Goldenberg Dies
Paul Goldenberg, Paul’s TV founder, philanthropist, and movie enthusiast, passed away last month at his home. Goldenberg got his start in the consumer electronics...
news
Huawei Ships 1st Smart Watch
Huawei’s first smart watch, unveiled early this year, will be available in six models priced from $349 to $799 for a rose-gold-plated model with...
Blu-ray/DVD
Vidity Technology Unveiled To Simplify UHD, HD Content Sharing
The Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA) wants to make it easier for consumers to share downloaded 4K Ultra HD and HD content across multiple...
news
LG Adds Streaming Of Amazon 4K HDR
LG is getting in on the high dynamic range (HDR) action. Flat and curved 4K Ultra HD OLED TVs in LG’s 2015 OLED lineup...
news
TIS THE SEASON
While we are all still enjoying the last warm days of the summer, Holiday Shopping and Gift Giving Season will be here before we...
Accessories
Bose Unveils New Link II Headphones
Bose unveiled its newest headphones last week, the SoundLink Around-Ear Wireless II, a Bluetooth and NFC model that boasts 15 hours of battery life....
news
Amazon Sweetens The Prime Pot, Again
Amazon has sweetened the Prime pot a bit more. Prime members can now download Amazon Video content to Apple and Android devices for offline...
news
Best Buy & Beyond
I did something last week that I haven’t done in a few months: I went to a Best Buy store. (And then I went...
news
LG Adds DirecTV Access, More Music To Smart TV WebOS
DirecTV subscribers can stream 4K, HD content without adding set-top boxes LG is giving its WebOS smart-TV platform an upgrade, as well as expanding...
news
Panasonic Surprises IFA Crowd With 1st 4K OLED TV
Panasonic unveiled its first OLED TV at the IFA technology show in Berlin, a 65-inch 4K Ultra HD model delivering high-dynamic range (HDR) video....
Audio
Pioneer Jumps On DTS:X Bandwagon
Pioneer launched its first three audio/video receivers that can be upgraded to decode DTS:X object-based surround soundtracks. Their predecessors featured Dolby Atmos object-based surround...
news
Alcatel OneTouch Goes Home In Berlin
China-based Alcatel OneTouch went to IFA 2015 in Berlin in order to go home. The mobile-phone and tablet company launched products optimized for in-home...
news
Lenovo Has First Tablets With Virtualized Dolby Atmos
Lenovo didn’t forget North America in launching a variety of communications and computing products at IFA 2015, where it unveiled the industry’s first tablet...
Accessories
These Are The 5 Newest Headphones To Take On Beats & Bose
Combining the IFA 2015 show in Berlin with the usual Strum und Drang of the headphones industry has the result of an overwhelming number...
Financial
Q2 Profits Fall At Sears Hometown
Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores (SHO), the nation’s fifth-largest appliance chain, said a slew of circumstances including store closings, inventory constraints and a cap...
Industry
6 Things We Learned At Intel’s IFA Keynote
Intel opened up the 2015 IFA here with a self-congratulatory keynote filled with a geek’s wet dream of new computing advancements and starring the...
Accessories
Want A Free Ride In A Star Wars Stormtrooper, Courtesy Of Hot Wheels?
To get in on the Star Wars-themed #ForceFriday action, New York City Uber customers can ride in a Dodge Charger SRT 392 patterned after...
Audio
Marantz Expands HDMI 2.0a, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X With SR7010 & SR6010 AVRs
More Marantz A/V receivers are getting the Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based surround formats, HDMI 2.0a, and HDCP 2.2 copy protection, thanks to the...
news
T-Mobile Is First To Let You Make Video Calls Without An App
T-Mobile became the first of the national carriers to launch a video calling service , which lets subscribers place video calls just like standard...
news
Panasonic Surprises IFA Crowd With Its 1st 4K OLED TV
Panasonic unveiled its first OLED TV at the IFA technology show in Berlin, a 65-inch 4K Ultra HD model delivering high-dynamic range (HDR) video....
news
Seiki TVs To Widen The Color Gamut
China-based Tongfang Global, which markets value-priced TVs under the Seiki brand, will offer wide-color-gamut TVs under a partnership with QD Vision, which makes Color...
Industry
Serena Williams Boards The Beats By Dre Bandwagon Again
Just in time for the U.S. Open, tennis superstar Serena Williams has made a new ad for Apple and Beats Electronics. Set with Andra...
Blu-ray/DVD
Samsung 4K TVs Get Ready For 4K HDR Blu-ray Players
Samsung said it is first to market with TVs supporting HDMI 2.0a, the HDMI connector technology that accepts high-dynamic-range (HDR) metadata from external devices...
Financial
Costco’s CE Comps Up In August
Same-store sales of consumer electronics at Costco rose by the mid-single digits in August. The strong dog-days performance during a traditionally slow stretch for...
news
Barnes & Noble Adds 3rd Samsung Co-Branded Nook Tablet
Barnes & Noble and Samsung are teaming up for their third co-branded Nook. The two companies expanded the selection of their reading-optimized co-branded Android...
news
Amazon Adds Dash Brands, Will Reimburse Cost Of Button
Amazon is making it easier (and cheaper) for consumers to purchase its recurring-order-fulfillment Dash buttons. The e-tailer said it will now reimburse consumers the...
CES-2016
Amazon 4K HDR Streams Come To LG TVs
LG is getting in on the high dynamic range (HDR) action. Flat and curved 4K Ultra HD OLED TVs in LG’s 2015 OLED lineup...
CES-2016
Sony Brings 4K To Smartphones With Xperia Z5 Premium
Sony is bringing its 4K Ultra HD expertise from flat-screen TVs to smartphones. On the eve of the IFA 2015 show in Berlin, the...
news
IFA 2015 Sees Huawei’s 1st Smart Watch
Computing and communications are among the tech developments that will take center stage at this week’s IFA 2015, where Acer will launch its game-focused...
CES-2016
Sennheiser Taps Synnex’s New Age For Retail Distribution
Sennheiser has extended its relationship with Synnex beyond the commercial channel. Effective immediately, New Age Electronics, Synnex’s national CE and gaming subsidiary, will distribute a select assortment...
Accessories
These Are Bose’s New SoundLink II Headphones
Bose unveiled its newest headphones today, the SoundLink Around-Ear Wireless II, a Bluetooth and NFC model that boasts 15 hours of battery life. The...
Computers
How Intel Hopes To Reignite PC Sales
Intel wants to light a fire under slumping PC sales. The company introduced its sixth-generation Core processor family, which feature performance enhancements and lower...
Computers
Toshiba’s Satellite Radius 12 Brings 4K & Facial Recognition To A 2-In-1
4K isn’t just for laptops anymore. Toshiba has unveiled a new top-of-the-line convertible two-in-one laptop with a 4K Ultra HD display. The Radius 12...
Car Electronics
Why DTS Is Buying iBiquity Digital
DTS, the supplier of audio-processing and surround-decoding technology, entered into a definitive agreement to buy iBiquity Digital, the developer of digital HD Radio broadcasting...
Industry
Jimmy Kimmel Responds To Gaming Fracas
After Jimmy Kimmel ridiculed the excitement gamers showed over YouTube Gaming, Google’s new gaming and e-sports site — “When I was a kid, you...
Appliances
Haier Joins Plated, MasterCard On 9-City Tour
Haier America has hit the road for a nine-city product tour aboard an Airstream travel trailer to dramatically demonstrate its small-space Urban Kitchen Living...
Distributors
PowerHouse Preps For CEDIA Expo
The PowerHouse Alliance distributor group is gearing up for CEDIA Expo 2015 with a series of pre-show trainings and events. The 12-distributor consortium said...
news
Amazon Prime Video Now Permits Offline Downloads
Amazon just sweetened the Prime pot a bit more. Beginning today, Prime members will be able to download Amazon Video content to Apple and...