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What Does Gary Shapiro Do All Day At CES?
This story originally published on March 14, 2017. We’re bringing it back in honor of CES Unveiled New York, being held tonight at the...
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Industry
UHD Alliance Coming To The Small Screen
The UHD Alliance (UHDA) has developed performance criteria that battery-powered devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops must meet to deliver what the group...
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Rebel Without A Pause: T-Mobile CMO Andrew Sherrard
Years from now business students will still be studying the T-Mobile revolution. Fueled by a hefty breakup fee from AT&T and led by outspoken...
news
New Cord-Cutting Options: Combining OTA With Streaming
With the cord-cutters and the cord-nevers receiving a great deal of attention in the content-distribution industry, it is time for manufacturers to introduce options...
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The 4K Era Is Here, And Already 8K Looms
Digesting the state of the video category, post-CES, we can talk of OLED vs LCD, backlit vs edge lit, HDR formats, streaming or physical...
Blogs
Five Of The Most Promising CES Introductions…
With total attendance exceeding 170,000 from more than 150 countries across the globe, CES is one of the largest trade shows in the world....
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Retailers Recap CES 2017
Amid the hubbub of new product demos, keynote addresses and attention-grabbing booth displays, let’s not forget a critical constituency at CES: the dealers, who...
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Futuresource, TWICE Partner For Free Webinar On CES
Futuresource Consulting, the technology research and service company based in London, will be conducting a free webinar, Friday, Jan. 13, at noon EST, to...
Blogs
CES Panel Highlights: Reaching Women Consumers
With women accounting for 85 percent of all consumer purchases — including everything from autos to healthcare — why does it often appear the...
Home Automation
The Inspiration For Alexa, And Other Cool Echo-flections
In a pitch to vendors, developers and service providers to hitch their ride to Amazon’s ubiquitous virtual digital assistant, Alexa smart home director Charlie...
Fitness
CES 2017: Under Armour’s Kevin Plank Sees A Future Clad In Tech
In his keynote address at CES on Friday, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank outlined his vision of a much more technologically advanced future for...
Blu-ray/DVD
CES 2017: BDA Details 4K Plans for 2017
Despite the attention given to streaming services as a delivery channel for 4K/Ultra HD content, physical media in the form of Ultra HD Blu-ray...
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CES 2017: CEO Mark Fields Steering Ford Into A Connected-Car Future
At the Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA’s) annual Leaders in Technology dinner Friday night, Ford president/CEO Mark Fields depicted a radically different American landscape that’s...
Industry
TWICE Honors Best Of CES 2017 With Picks Awards
TWICE is proud to announce the winners of its third annual TWICE Picks Awards, honoring the best products at CES 2017. TWICE editors reviewed over...
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CES 2017: DTS Expands Play-Fi, Talks To Alexa, Adds Virtual:X
Tessera subsidiary DTS came to CES with an expanded roster of audio brands offering Play-Fi multiroom-audio technology and plans for two audio brands to...
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CES 2017: Honda Shows Self-Balancing Motorcycle
Honda’s CES press conference keyed on the advantages of autonomous driving and safety technologies. Honda Americas R&D president Frank Paluch said his company is...
Appliances
CES 2017: Samsung Builds On Family Hub Fridge, Front-Load Laundry Innovation
Samsung Electronics has introduced the second generation of its acclaimed Family Hub refrigerator which, besides keeping food cold, can serve as the electronic hearth...
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High-Res Audio Streaming Gets Underway
High-resolution audio is making the move from downloading to streaming, with Tidal launching high-res streaming of thousands of albums and Napster announcing plans at...
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Sennheiser Welcomes Audio Quartet
Sennheiser brought a quartet of new products at CES 2017: the HD1 in-ear wireless headphones, the AMBEO Smart Surround compact earphones, and the HD 4.50BTNC...
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CES 2017: LG Raises The OLED & Super UHD Bar; Adds ‘Wallpaper TVs’
LG is boosting OLED-TV peak luminance by 25 percent, rolling out a pair of OLED TVs so thin that they’re dubbed “wallpaper TVs,” and...
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CES 2017: Dirac Research Unveils ‘Dynamic 3D Audio’ AR/VR Platform
Dirac Research believes it has removed a major barrier to a truly immersive AR/VR experience with the introduction of its “Dynamic 3D Audio” AR/VR...
news
CES 2017: OLED, Dolby Vision Come To Sony TV Lineup
Sony came to CES to add 4K OLED TVs to its LCD TV lineup, launch its first 4K TVs with Dolby Vision high dynamic...
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Voxx Kicks Off CES 2017 With Strong Branding Stories
Voxx Accessories Corp. delivered strong branding messages — and a full slate of new products — at its annual CES Press Day news conference,...
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CES 2017: Sony’s Hirai Highlights ‘Objects Of Desire’ Plan
Kazuo Hirai, president and CEO of Sony, maintained at CES 2017 that his company’s plan to make its products “objects of desire” not only pleases consumers...
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Huawei Brings More Honor To CES
Huawei came to CES 2017 with an emphasis on its Honor brand. Aimed squarely at the millennial market and positioned below Huawei’s more upscale...
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Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Mesh Could Steal CES Smart-Home Spotlight
The smart home, and IoT in general, continues to be a continually growing segment for retailers. According to Strategy Analytics, the smart-home market will...
Industry
Using Tech To Manufacture Time
I’m not a supermom, and I don’t know anyone who is. I’m an Ubermom — everything in my life is on-demand. My kids have...
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Over The Air & Over The Top At CES 2017
Ask anyone in the business to name the three-letter acronym that describes the future direction of the content and device side of the back...
News
Roku TV OS Coming To Element Brand And HDR TVs
The Roku TV OS is coming to high dynamic range (HDR) TVs in 2017 as well as to TVs from Element Electronics, Roku announced...
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CES 2017: For Hisense, It’s All About Volume And Value
Hisense continues its attempt to overwhelm the North American market by sheer volume, hoping to fill the needs of every sales channel in North...
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Monster Blowing It All Up At CES
Monster went back to the woodshed in 2016 and has emerged with a philosophy to “blow it all up.” (Blow up its brand, of...
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CES 2017 Kicks Off With Trends To Watch
Happy 50th anniversary CES! As has become custom in recent years, Consumer Technology Association’s (CTA) Shawn DuBravac laid out what show attendees can expect...
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CES 2017: Samsung Promotes Better Looks On & Around New TVs
Samsung is bringing newly developed metal-core quantum-dot technology to select 4K Ultra HD TVs. The enhancements will boost peak brightness to 2,000 nits from...
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CES 2017: Amazon Fire TV OS Comes To Westinghouse, Seiki, Element TVs
Amazon is joining Roku and Google in embedding the capabilities of media-streaming dongles and set-top boxes into TVs. At CES, value-priced TV brands Westinghouse...
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Qualcomm Uses CES 2017 To Unveil Next-Gen Snapdragon 835 Processor
Qualcomm addressed a packed crowd at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on the first Media Day of CES 2017, with the chipmaker using the...
news
LG Bringing 3 New Super UHD TVs With Nano Cell Tech To CES 2017
LG will show off its newest Ultra HD TVs at CES this week, and the company has partnered with Technicolor to build on the...
Industry
Bill Thiele Joins Display-Vu To Lead RCA TV Re-Launch
Updated! Display-Vu Corp., an affiliate of Curtis International, has brought on Bill Thiele as sales VP to head the re-introduction of RCA brand TVs...
Accessories
Antop Bringing Its Own Brand Of TV Antennas To CES For First Time
Antop is heading to CES 2017 for the first time to show off its new branded line of digital TV antennas. The company, which...
Audio
Samsung Reveals CES 2017 A/V Lineup
Samsung Electronics has revealed some of the new A/V products that will debut at CES next week. The line includes the new H7 Wireless...
Car Electronics
Need A Ride At CES 2017? QFX Launching Its Electric-Powered Scooters
QFX has launched a series of electric-powered scooters, and it will be showcasing them at CES 2017 next month. All four models are powered...
CES
George Benson & Friends To Play Monster’s CES 2017 Concert
Monster announced the musical performance for its annual concert and retailer awards at CES. The event, titled “An Elegant Night of Music,” will feature...
Accessories
Beyerdynamic Bringing Custom Game To CES 2017
Beyerdynamic lifted the veil a bit early for its CES announcements. The headphones manufacturer announced it will add to its line of Custom-series headphones...