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US consumer electronics shipments to generate $171 bln in 2009

The consumer electronics industry is projected to generate $171 bln in US shipment revenues in 2009, according to Consumer Electronics Association. CEA’s estimate of final shipment revenues for 2008 showed the industry reached a new high of $172 bln, an increase of 5.4% over 2007. In 2009, overall, CEA projects...

Tags: AM, Consumer Electronics, Consumer Electronics Association, Consumer Electronics Industry, Digital Television, Electronics, Home Entertainment, Management, Personal Technology, Revenue, Shipment Revenue, Strategy, Tv & Home Theater, TVs

Blog posts 2009-01-09

Consumer electronics sales to grow 6.1% in 2008

The consumer electronics industry is projected to post a healthy 6.1% increase in revenues in 2008, according to Consumer Electronics Association. Overall shipment revenues are forecast to top $171 bln in 2008, yielding a growth rate of 6.1%. CEA also released its estimate of final shipment revenues for 2007, which...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Association, Consumer Electronics Industry, Shipment Revenue, Gaming Category, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Home Entertainment, Microsoft Windows CE, Games, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, site admin

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Consumer electronics industry in China to generate $94 bln in 2010

Consumer electronics industry in China to generate $94 bln in 2010China Consumer IndustryIt would appear Best Buy is going into China just in time. I think Best Buy will clean up in China by bringing in U.S. style marketing and organization. www.chinalawblog.com

Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, consumer electronics

Discussion threads 2006-05-12

1.9 mln Americans work in consumer electronics industry

As of December 2005, the consumer electronics industry employed approximately 1.9 mln people or 1.4% of the US's non-farm workforce. Encompassing employment across the entire value chain, this can be distributed into the categories of retail (574,000), manufacturing (212,000), transportation (38,000), and use (1,073,000). In 2005, the industry added 30,000...

Tags: consumer electronics, consumer electronics industry, manufacturing

Blog posts 2006-03-14

Senate bill bans P2P networks

Senate bill bans P2P networksUnintended consequences of bad lawsI have a DVR provided from my cable company that I can record music and video on from TV like TiVO. Since VCRs, copiers, TiVo, etc. are mentioned in the discussion, how long before they are included in the bill? Stupid to...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Consumer Electronics Industry, U.S. Senate, network, P2P, copyright law, RIAA

Discussion threads 2004-06-23

Additional Resources

Lauding, lamenting Hello Kitty at 35 (photos)

Global fat cat Hello Kitty is turning 35, so we fete her by rounding up some of her most brazen assaults on the consumer electronics industry. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Retail, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-11-20

Netbooks dead? Not when sales are up 264% percent

My prediction:Intel and MS and the major brands are trying to drag the market upwards in size and cost to maintain their margins. They will shortly face a barrage of products based on ARM class processors and Linux (Chrome?), which will cost much less and have much better battery lives....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, sales, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-11-16

It's public versus private in dispute over electronics recycling laws

Kinda like the business yokels that want an educated workforce ....but don't want to pay their share of school taxes (supposedly because business can't get pregnant).Another fall flat on it's face waste of money and courts unless of course if you are a lawyer.putting the cart before the horse, should...

Tags: e-waste law

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Coin-sized nuclear batteries to revolutionise electronics

.. Nice post for a change. Good job. ntntA beautiful dream...and then reality hitspeople have been so indoctrinated that nuclear material is the most toxic substance on the planet and even saying the word will give you cancer, that this has about as much chance as a snowball in hell...

Tags: Engineering, nuclear-battery, Coin-sized nuclear-battery, alpha, cell, electronics

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Palm's growth plan: Can it work in a changing mobile market?

When Palm announced a new mobile operating system - WebOS - and plans for the first smartphone built on it - the Pre - at the Consumer Electronics Show back in January, the company became the darling of the industry. Here, after all, was the company whose name was once...

Tags: Mobile, Palm Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing Research, Branding, Operating Systems, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-21

Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York City

Developers, developers, developers, developers... [nt][nt]Here's to that rounding error getting smaller:DRE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in New York CitySweet! Wish I could be there to see it. Who knows, maybe something will come up in NYC and I'll be there.RE: Ballmer to headline Windows 7 launch in...

Tags: Chipsets, Branding, developer, Microsoft Windows 7, Steve Ballmer, Gigabyte Technology, motherboard, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-08-27

The price factor

Prices and profitsCompetition is supposed to erode ALL excessive profits, so that is what is happening. PCs (incl. Apple) have largely become commodity products, which makes it almost impossible to compete on anything BUT price.And why so obsessed about quality? We throw away millions of WORKING PCs every year because...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Strategy, price factor, Toshiba Corp., notebook, graphics

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

(Strangest Wii accessory yet -- photos)

I'm reminded of a story in the classic collection......of Ozark folk tales, "Pissing in the Snow", about a young woman riding behind her boyfriend and reaching around to grasp the pommel to hold on.RE: (Strangest Wii accessory yet -- photos)looks like they got the butt pressure sensors installed.RE: ...

Tags: Nintendo Wii, accessory, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Sony's Reader: The road ahead

Sony launched two new e-readers, including one that hits the $199 price point and could bring e-books to the masses. Yet Sony is facing stiff competition from Amazon's Kindle, Plastic Logic (in 2010) and a rapidly expanding field of competitors. Also see: Sony launches two new readers...

Tags: E-reader, Sony Corp., Sony Reader, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-05

Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single package

Apple/AT&T/iPhone - Everything that's wrong with the cellphone industry wrapped up in a single packageWhy Adrian...apparently you aren't a glassy-eyed Apple fanboi Anytime you post anything even mildly critical of Windows, Bing, or anything MS the usual suspects come out in force and try to paint you as a rapid...

Tags: Cellular phones, Smart phones, cellphone industry, Apple iPhone, cell phone, handset, single package

Discussion threads 2009-07-28

Are Steve Jobs' management skills a corporate risk?

We all know that Apple CEO Steve Jobs is a revered figure in the consumer electronics industry for pushing the envelope and getting filthy rich doing it. But does the magic of Apple product success hide a poor business manager? ...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., CEO, Bill Taylor, O'Grady, Consumer Electronics, Leadership, Personal Technology, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-07

Sony admits to PSP Go early adopter premium, are you really surprised?

Sony admits to PSP Go early adopter premium, are you really surprised?Not worth itThere's not much reason from my perspective to own a PSP Go. I have the 3000 and with WiFi I can run off to the Sony store and buy games... which is the only way you'll be...

Tags: Games, Wireless and Mobility, Sony Corp., Sony PlayStation Portable, PSP Go

Discussion threads 2009-06-26

Pitney Bowes branded community reduces customer support costs

During the 2007 postal rate change Pitney Bowes, which provides postal equipment and services to businesses, received more than 415K support phone calls on the rate change alone, all in under a month. This was in addition to the company's usual flow of customer calls, so its support teams were...

Tags: Community, Pitney Bowes Inc., Lithium Technologies Inc., Team Management, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivity

Washington digs in on text message pricing; asks about carrier exclusivityGimme? No, its socialism in actionWhy do you figure the government has any right to dictate what phones are available through what carriers? I don't happen to like the iPhone - but I know a lot of people...

Tags: Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, Telecom & Utilities, text message pricing, carrier exclusivity, phone, text messaging

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Kindles in color by 2010? Prime View to buy E Ink for $215M

E-book news is in a flurry today with the shipping date announced for the new Kindle DX, and Google announcing it will be selling e-books, but there's some more news to add to the pile: According to a Reuters story, Taiwanese display maker Prime View International...

Tags: Sony Corp., Thomson Reuters Corp., E Ink Corp., E-book New, E-Ink, E-books, Personal Technology, Jennifer Bergen

Blog posts 2009-06-01