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New Kenwood VP Sales
Kenwood announced it promoted David Hoag to VP sales of consumer electronics. Hoag is a 7 year veteran...
New BlackBerry Torch via AT&T Due August 12
Updated! Research in Motion launched an all new BlackBerry smartphone—its first slider + touch screen smartphone and its...
Volvo Can Stop Itself
Volvo will soon introduce a 2011 S60 with a $2,100 option that stops the car automatically to avoid...
1st OEM Integration Under Kicker Brand
Kicker is shipping a zero summing device, the ZXSUM8, that is its first OEM integration product under the...
Car Toys to Carry Mobileye Driver Safety
In a coup for the fledgling aftermarket driver safety business, Mobileye, maker of crash warning systems, has signed...
New Kindle 3 Sells Out in a Week
In only a week, the Kindle 3, Amazon’s new lighter and faster Kindle has sold out. The Amazon...
Android is Top Dog but iPhone is the Most Desired Phone
Android smartphone shipments grew an astounding 886 percent worldwide (and 851 percent in the U.S.) in Q2 compared...
OnStar Courts Retailers; Meeting with Specialists Across the Country
Four leading car stereo retail shops say they have signed non-disclosure agreements with OnStar and we are told...
Brick and Mortar Retail Lament from Ray Windsor
The pitch at retail could make you cry these days. A trip to buy some home theater components...
FridgePad Due this Fall
Your iPad needs a safe place in the kitchen where it won’t get smudged, splashed and dropped. So...
Suppliers say No to Windows/Intel Atom Tablets
There’s a tsunami of tablet PCs coming later this year and by early 2011. The booths at the...
Cell phones See Quick Recovery from Recession
Wouldn’t it be nice if other consumer electronics products saw the swift rebound that cellular phones are enjoying?...
BlackBerry Blackpad Due November: Bloomberg
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) secured the Internet rights to the name "blackpad.com" which is expected to...
J&R Computer Gets Kindle, Target Gets Kindle WiFi
Updated! Is Amazon about to sell its Kindle eReader through additional stores to better compete with the Barnes...
B&N Fights Back with 1,000-Foot eReader Boutiques
In its war with Amazon over digital territory, Barnes & Noble is firing it’s next salvo. In September,...
MESA Chooses Kinetik
MESA, the Mobile Electronics Specialists of America buying group said it selected Kinetik as it vendor for car...
Best Buy To Sell Clearwire 4G Service
Best Buy will begin selling 4G wireless service directly to customers using Clearwire’s 4G WiMax network. The service...
Viper SmartStart is Now on Android
Directed Electronics broadened the reach of its Viper SmartStart to Android smartphones so that the remote start app...
Panasonic Buys 100% of Sanyo
Panasonic is buying Sanyo for its green technology. Japan's largest electronics maker, already has a 50 percent stake...
New Kindle Wi-Fi at $139
It will be a struggle for a no-name eReader to exist in the new Kindle Wi-Fi marketplace above...