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Best Buy Launches On-Demand Movies
Best Buy is launching a new on-demand movie service that gives customers access to movies the day they...
Mobile DTV Gets 12V Launch from NAV-TV
Free TV in the car with a crisp, clear image, even at 85 mph, is inching closer to...
Target’s New CE Depts Stress Games
Target is emphasizing video games in a new electronics department layout that will be in half of its...
Sirius XM Ups Forecasts; Audiovox Reports Strong Q4
Sirius XM seems to getting some of its groove back, at least on the new car side and...
12V Spot Shortages Until Summer
Shortages in car stereo products, the result of some better-than-expected sales this year, may not be resolved until...
Pioneer, Sony Expect to Swing to Profit; Narrow Losses in Fiscal Q4
Pioneer Corp.'s restructuring may be paying off as the company said it expects to post its first net...
QUE Preorders to be Filled in June
Plastic Logic is blaming the delayed release of its high end plastic QUE eReader on a shift in...
First 4G Phone Due on June 4
Sprint announced yesterday the first U.S. 4G phone--the HTC EVO 4G--will be available starting June 4 at $199...
Walmart Gets Aggressive in 3G/4G
Walmart is breaking new ground in discount cellular service for phones, netbook and notebook PCs and will begin...
Garmin Ships 295W Mini Tablet/PND
Garmin is about to ship its first WiFi nuvi portable GPS device. Similar to a mini tablet, the...
Google Tablet in Verizon’s Future
Verizon Wireless says it is collaborating with Google on a tablet that would rival the iPad. Verizon’s chief...
Sharp Readies 1st 3D Camera for Phones
Sharp Corp. will start producing the first 3D camera for use with mobile phones by the end of...
LG’s First Android Phone Due May 20
LG today announced its first Android smartphone—called the Ally—a mid-range slider3G EVDO phone offered by Verizon, whose 3.2-inch...
CES Audit Shows Visitors Up From 2009 at 126K
In case you were wondering how many people attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, the answer...
GM Plots Answer to Sync
Aftermarket (retail) car radio makers be warned. General Motors may be plotting its answer to Ford’s Sync radios....
Android Steals #2 Slot from iPhone
Android is hot, and it’s now powering a lot of smartphones. So, it comes as no surprise that...
OnStar To Enter Retail Aftermarket with a Mirror-Mounted Device: Analyst
Soon retailers will be able to sell OnStar. General Motors will make OnStar available to consumer electronics retailers...
TomTom Adds More PNDs with Lifetime Traffic/Map Updates
TomTom is continuing to rollout new portable navigation devices (PNDs) with lifetime traffic and/or map updates. Each feature...
Kobo On Sale at Borders June 17
Borders is making its eReader and eBookstore entry official. It began taking pre-orders for its Kobo eReader that...
Android Phones are Now Language Translators (Visually)
Google now offers an app that converts Android phones to language translators, but instead of typing in a...