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Survey Sees 2015 Demand Up In Smartphones, Tablets, Wearables
Beloit, Wis. — Demand for smartphones, tablets, wearables, and wireless headphones and speakers will be among the CE industry’s growth categories in 2015, based...
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Online Radio Listening Up In Home, Car, On The Go
Somerville, N.J. — Music streaming at home, in the car and on the go continues to rise, and people are listening more through cellphones,...
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Amazon Tops Apple Among Tablet/Computer Makers
Waban, Mass. — Amazon beat Apple in offering the best customer experience among tablet and computers makers in the U.S., a consumer survey by...
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IHS: Connected Audio Connects With Consumers
El Segundo, Calif. — Annual shipments of connected-audio products will surge at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 88 percent, from 1.5 million...
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Pay-TV Subscribers Fall By 4,000 In 2014, Study Finds
Boston — The number of households subscribing to a pay-TV service shrank slightly in 2014, and cord cutting threatens to take the subscriber base...
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Gap Tracking Smartphone Pricing, Promotions
San Diego – Research company gap intelligence launched a weekly competitive-intelligence service covering smartphones at retail. The company is tracking more than 1,000 device...
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4K Pushing Large-Panel Growth: IHS
Santa Clara, Calif. — 4K TVs and a rebound in notebook computers helped drive growth in large-panel display shipments and revenue, according to the...
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Apple, Samsung Tablet Shares Fall In 2014
Boston – Combined shipments of Apple and Samsung tablets fell below 50 percent for the first time in the U.S. and globally in 2014,...
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Gartner Sees Rising Tide Of Used Phones
Stamford, Conn. – The number of used cellphones sold privately by their owners is growing rapidly in mature markets because of demand from consumers...
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Kantar: Apple Tops In Q4 U.S. Smartphone-OS Share
London — Apple’s fourth-quarter share of smartphone sales exceeded Android-phone sales in the U.S. in for the first time in any quarter since the...
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CIRP: No Big Spike In iPhone Buyers Who Dumped Android
Chicago – The launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus didn’t cause a bigger spike in the percentage of U.S. iPhone buyers who...
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Apple, Samsung In Global Smartphone Tie In Q4
Boston – Apple tied with Samsung as the world’s largest smartphone vendor in the fourth quarter, thanks to surging sales of its iPhone 6...
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Survey: iOS Gets 50% Of Q4 Cellphone Activations
Chicago — Smartphone activations repeated history in the fourth quarter when Apple’s iOS surged to account for more cellphone activations than the Android OS,...
IP Set-Top Boxes
40% Of Homes To Get Streaming Players
Port Washington, N.Y. – A new study predicts 40 percent of U.S. Internet-connected homes will have a streaming-media player by the end of the...
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iPhone ASPs Up, iPad ASPs Down In Q4, Survey Finds
Chicago – Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) sees iPhone average selling prices (ASPs) rising in last year’s fourth quarter and iPad ASPs falling based...
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Amazon Tops In Customer Satisfaction: Study
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) has completed its year-end list of mostand least-beloved companies, based on interviews with over...
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Survey: iPhones Grab 50% Share Of Q4 U.S. Phone Sales
Chicago – The strength of Apple’s iPhone launches last September boosted its share of cellphones sold in the U.S. to 50 percent in the...
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Target Cites Mobile-riffic Holiday Season
Minneapolis — Target said it hit the bull’s-eye with record-breaking m- and e-commerce results this past holiday season. According to the No. 2 discount...
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Global Smart Watch Market To Grow 13-Fold In 5 Years
Dallas – The global smart-watch market will grow at a CAGR of 96.8 percent from 2014 through 2019 for a 13-fold gain from 2014...
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Dec. CE/Majap Retail Sales Soared 7%: Feds
Washington — Retail sales for CE and appliance dealers rose 6.8 percent in December year-over-year, representing the third-strongest showing by channel behind only car dealers...
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Consumer Sentiment Toward Economy Rises: CEA
Arlington, Va. — Consumer sentiment toward the overall economy reached a record level in December, the Consumer Electronics Association said with the release of...
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Futuresource: Global CE Sales Rose 4.5% In ‘14
London – Global consumer electronics sales rose 4.5 percent in 2014 to a factory-level $707 billion, driven by 24 percent growth in cellphone and...
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NPD: Video Game Revenues Slipped In Nov.
Port Washington, N.Y. — Overall U.S. retail sales revenue for video game hardware, software and accessories declined 11 percent in the month of November...
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GapCompare Tool Simplifies Printer/Copier Landscape
San Diego — Market research firm Gap Intelligence launched GapCompare on Tuesday, described as an online research tool to help dealers and distributors quickly...
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TWICE/Mode Media Exclusive: Millennials Lead In CE Neediness
BRISBANE, CALIF. — CE manufacturers should focus their promotional firepower on millennials to get the biggest bang for their marketing buck. The group, generally...
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Shoppers Playing Patient This Cyber Monday: NRF
Washington — Fewer consumers plan to shop today’s Cyber Monday than last year, according to a survey commissioned by the National Retail Federation, preferring...
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Consumers To Break Holiday Shopping Records: CEA
ARLINGTON, VA. — A record-breaking 103.3 million Americans will shop online between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday this year, up by 6.1 million shoppers over...
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TVs On One-Third Of All Holiday Shopping Lists: Report
ENGLEWOOD, COLO. — TV is back in business. According to a poll conducted one week out from Thanksgiving, 34 percent of consumers plan to...
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Study: Smart TVs Challenged To Deliver ROI
Dunstable, England — Global smart-TV shipments are on course to reach 228 million units by 2018, but TV manufacturers may be starting to reassess...
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Holidays Look Brighter For 4K This Year: NPD
Port Washington, N.Y. — Sales of 4K and Ultra HD TVs have hit $668 million so far this year, marking growth of nearly nine...
Home Automation
Parks: Home-Automation Awareness Low
Dallas – Sixty-two percent of broadband-connected households in the U.S. are unfamiliar with smart home products, almost 70 percent don’t know where to buy...
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Dell Cites Study Showing PC Share Growth
Round Rock, Texas – In another sign of reinvigorated PC demand, Dell said this week that it continued to see growth in its client...
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Survey: Amazon Rises To Top In Tablet Satisfaction
Westlake Village, Calif. – Amazon ranked highest in overall satisfaction for the first time in J.D. Power U.S. tablet satisfaction study, edging out Apple...
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Sept. CE Retail Sales Surge 6%
Washington — Never underestimate the power of an iPhone launch. Last month’s rollout of Apple’s 6 series sent retail sales soaring for mobile merchants,...
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CIRP: New iPhones Off To Faster Start Than Last Year
Chicago – Apple’s iPhone 6 and 6 Plus accounted for a larger percentage of iPhone sales in their first weeks of availability than last...
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IDC: Q3 PC Shipments Beat Estimates
Framingham, Mass. — Worldwide PC shipments dropped 1.7 percent to 78.5 million units in the third quarter, marking a sizable improvement over prior forecasts...
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Holiday Sales To Rise 4%: NRF
Washington – The National Retail Federation (NRF) is forecasting a 4.1 percent increase in November-December sell-through, marking the highest holiday gain since 2011. The...
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Holidays Look Bright For Retailers: CEA
Arlington, Va. — The 2014 holiday season will see the highest levels of consumer spending on CE since 1994, according to the Consumer Electronics...
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Nielsen: Music Streaming Mainstream
New York – Music streaming, personal music libraries and smartphones account for major shares of consumers’ daily music listening, a Nielsen survey confirms. A...
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Consumer Tech Spending Attitudes Remain Strong: CEA
Arlington, Va. — Consumer confidence metrics reported by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today remain seasonally strong, but down slightly compared with last month....
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August Sales Edge Up 1.7% For CE/Majap Dealers
Washington – Retail sales rose 1.7 percent in August for electronics and appliance specialty stores, the U.S. Census Bureau reported. According to the agency’s...
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CEDIA Survey: Residential Installers’ Revenues Surge
Denver — Custom integrators are seeing residential install revenues rise at a faster pace in 2014 than 2013 because their projects are growing in...