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SanDisk Corp. today announced it shipped more than three million CompactFlash memory cards in 1999, an increase of more than 140 percent over the...

Delphi Automotive Systems and Palm, Inc., today announced an initiative to develop new multimedia products and services for vehicles. The centerpiece is Delphi’s prototype...

3Com Corporation announced the appointment of former Sony president and CEO Carl J. Yankowski as CEO and director of its Palm Computing subsidiary. Yankowski...

Club Photo, an online image-sharing and organizing company, has brought Album To Go, an interactive photo album that runs on the Palm operating system,...

Consumer electronics products are changing from entertainment-only devices to workstyle- and lifestyle-enhancing devices, according to the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association (CEMA). “A lot of...

Palm Computing, a 3Com company, has introduced the Palm IIIe connected organizer, an entry-level version of its popular series of hand-held computing devices. The...

Toshiba has determined its e-commerce strategy, which will go into effect June 1, and it makes strict demands of who gets to sell the...

A new San Jose, Calif., company called iPlayMP3 has released the Moveman, a portable MP3 player that, while aimed at the general consumer market,...

Clarion, the car audio and mobile electronics maker, announced today it would design, develop and market car radios for both XM Satellite Radio and...

Steve Nickerson, VP of marketing for Toshiba America Consumer Products, is leaving his position effective at the end of December after 13 years with...

The first sub-$1500 2.5 megapixel digital camera is on its way. Olympus America today introduced the C-2500L SLR, the new “flagship” of its filmless...

Philips Electronics will introduce an SMDI-compliant MP3 player by the first quarter of 2000, the company said. The device will come equipped with enough...

Agfa says it’s time for the “e” generation. The company’s Desktop Products group is introducing the SnapScan e40 and e50 scanners this May, adding...

Electric Fuel Corp., an Israeli company that makes batteries for portable consumer electronics devices, says it has found the way for wireless device users...

Apple has launched a laptop version of its popular iMac personal computer called the iBook. The crowd at the MacWorld Expo in New York...

Add OfficeMax to the list of national CE and office-supply chains with $400 computer rebate programs. In a deal with CompuServe, the office superstore...

NEW YORK — The SongBank SL CD Memory System, a device that combines many of the features of a CD player, a CD megachanger...

A group of television broadcast and programming companies announced last week their concern that new personal video recorders (PVRs) developed by Replay Networks and...

Nokia introduced media phones designed for easy access to Internet content at PCS ’99 in New Orleans today. The Nokia 7100 Series is based...

South Korea’s debt-ridden Daewoo Group will sell most of its electronic home appliance unit to U.S. investment fund Walid Alomar & Associates for $3.2...

New Zealand-based appliance manufacturer Fisher & Paykel is sailing into the United States with a promotion featuring Dennis Conner and the America’s Cup 2000-and...

The Eveready Battery Co. is launching a new super premium line of batteries designed to target the 10 percent of the market it says...

“Will the future be optical, magnetic, solid state? Will those new hard drive VCRs ultimately replace VCRs?” These were some of the questions that...

Samsung Electronics has announced it is entering the U.S. refrigerator market with three upscale side-by-side refrigerators with twin cooling systems. The new Silhouette line...

The Ralston Purina Co. of St. Louis, Mo., has announced plans to spin off its Eveready Battery Co. The spin-off is expected to be...

With the introduction of a four-function remote control in five transparent colors, Zenith is leading the consumer electronics accessories category into colors. “We have...

In the wake of the tragedy in Littleton, Colo., Interactive Digital Software Association president Douglas Lowenstein defended the video game industry against those saying...

In keeping with its traditional role as a launching pad for new technology in the retail channel, RetailVision Spring ’99 saw the introduction of...

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this week the major game console vendors are set to showcase their next-generation hardware, which will hit the...

While its main focus is on photo and video editing products such as PhotoSuite II and VideoWave II, MGI Software is working behind the...

Lexmark beefed up its entry-level offering last week with the introduction of the Z11 Color Jetprinter. The Z11 brings the high resolution and fast...

Among the usual highlights of RetailVision was the keynote address, given at this spring’s event by Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s senior VP of consumer strategy....