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Audio System Maker Drives Innovation Through Online Dealer Community

A subsidiary of Japanese audio system manufacturer Pioneer Corporation, the Pioneer Electronics USA Mobile Business Group sells Pioneer and Premier after-market car audio, navigation, and accessories through a 4,000-dealer network across the United States. Relying on its dealers to correctly install its increasingly complex after-market car audio products, Pioneer Electronics...

Tags: Innovation, Pioneer Electronics, Audio System Maker, Social Networking, Portals, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet

Case studies 2008-09-01

mySAP CRM Integrates With Back-Office Software to Support New Online Sales Channel

Based in Long Beach, Calif., Pioneer Electronics USA, Inc. Pioneer is the sales and marketing arm of the consumer electronics firm Pioneer North America. The company faced challenges wherein the consumer electronics environment was becoming increasingly competitive and price erosion was deteriorating profitability. Pioneer used the mySAP Customer Relationship Management...

Tags: mySAP, Pioneer Electronics, Environment, Back-office, mySAP CRM, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales

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Mid-week HDTV news: Plasmas are hot sellers (again); Vizio remains tops in LCDs; Sony delays next OLED set

The economic downturn no doubt helped push some manufacturers like Pioneer out of the plasma market, but the recession may now be saving plasmas from the brink of obsolescence. According to a new report from Quixel Research, plasma HDTVs have zoomed to a huge gain in 2Q of 2009, with...

Tags: Sony Corp., Plasma, Organic Light-emitting Diode, LCD, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Pioneer launches trio of new A/V receivers with iPod/iPhone support

Pioneer may have abandoned HDTV production, but it hasn't left the home theater entirely. In addition to continuing to churn out new Blu-ray players, the electronics company still produces A/V receivers, including three new models that are reasonably priced and certified to work with iPhones. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Home Theater, Apple iPod, Video, Home Entertainment, Corporate Communications, Tv & Home Theater, Consumer Electronics, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-05-26

Jeff Bezos, meet Tony Hsieh. Zappos Moving into Electronics. And More.

As I said this morning, you should rule the world!!! How about starting by giving seminars? You could start with Wall St., then banks, how about the auto industry, then there's the airlines. I could go on, but it would just be easier if you ruled the world!!! Janet A....

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Electronics, Amazon.com Inc., Site, Zappos, Zeta, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-05-15

Can 3D save Blu-ray?

Can 3D save Blu-ray?No upgrade plannedI already have an HD TV. Cable provides me with movies and TV shows in HD. I see no compelling reason to upgrade to Blu-ray. Maybe when my current DVD player inevitably dies, I'll go with Blu-ray.I am blind in one eye,...

Tags: 3D

Discussion threads 2009-04-27

Do you spend money on expensive cables?

Do you spend money on expensive cables?In audio...thicker is better, on the whole. Professionally, I never use anything smaller than #12 AWG for speakers. Of course, some of my cable runs are 250'.The problem is that if you need something RIGHT NOWmost brick-and-mortar stores only carry the...

Tags: Network technology, cable, expensive cable

Discussion threads 2009-04-22

Bad Gas? Pioneer officially ditches TVs, Vizio abandons plasmas

Is plasma going to be the Betamax of HDTV technology? Despite still being regarded as providing better image quality than almost all LCD-based sets, plasma TVs have been on the losing side of the flat-panel equation for some time now. And the latest news isn't any more encouraging. ...

Tags: Plasma, LCD, Monitors & Displays, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-02-12

Palm's Pre and OS: Home-run announcements at CES

The odds were against a comeback by Palm as it prepared to make news at the Consumer Electronics Show. The smartphone space suddenly got crowded by the big names - iPhone, Blackberry, Android. And poor Palm - a pioneer in PDAs and smartphones - got pushed to the bottom. ...

Tags: Operating System, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Apple sued over Apple TV, Airport Express and Mac

EZ4Media, a Bannockburn, IL maker of wireless entertainment devices, filed a lawsuit against Apple on Tuesday, claiming that the Apple TV, Airport Express, and Macintosh itself infringe on its patents which it obtained from Universal Electronics UEI in March. In the complaint, EZ4Media alleges that Apple...

Tags: Apple AirPort Express, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Home Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Networking, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-19

Palm's CES news. Just in time or too late?

Palm may be in a good position to generate some buzz at the Consumer Electronics Show - and a major announcement about its long-time-coming operating system, called Nova, could be the thing it needs to grab the spotlight. It shouldn't be too hard to make some noise at CES this...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Mobile, Palm Inc., Smart Phone, JIT, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-15

Two paths for information management pros in an economic downturn

There's nothing like an economic downturn to catalyze change in information management IM strategies. Someone asked me recently, "Isn't information management a discretionary spend that will likely get cut in an economic downturn?" He cited the fact that tools for collaboration, content, and business intelligence are traditionally difficult to financially...

Tags: Information Management, Business Technology Team, Strategy, Management, Matthew Brown

Blog posts 2008-11-24

TV Pack headaches reveal Microsoft's Media Center dilemma

TV Pack headaches reveal Microsoft's Media Center dilemmaRE: TV Pack headaches reveal Microsoft's Media Center dilemmaNice article.My only problem with this release is that first it correct some usability bugs that were not corrected in the Vista SP1 release (duplication of entry on the record planning, etc.) and it introduce...

Tags: Media Center PCs, DVD, Consumer electronics, Media Center PC, TV Pack headach, Microsoft Media Center dilemma, TV Pack, Microsoft Media Center, Microsoft Media, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, TV

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

HDTVs: How black is black?

An announcement comes today by way of Pioneer, maker of the ever-popular Kuro HDTV line, saying that its new Kuro sets are five times blacker than the Kuro line on the market today which we reviewed as the TV with the deepest blacks out there. So wait...

Tags: HDTV, Ratio, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-05-07

Earth Day: Is the impact worth the build-up?

At the high-tech industry conference where I spent most of my day holed up in meetings on Monday, there was nary a mention of Earth Day. Surprised? I was, but that's naive little ole me. Then again, I spent the day with VARs and integrators, companies that rarely exercise the...

Tags: Xerox Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Polycom Inc., Transportation, Retail, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-04-21

The Cassiterite Crisis - How Tech Boom Fuels Human Rights Risk in Africa

A disturbing article this week in the FT reports how cassiterite sourced through the use of child and slave labour has made it into the supply chains of global electronic goods manufacturers. Cassiterite is a derivative of tin ore necessarily used in circuitry and its use has, ironically, enabled...

Tags: Cassiterite, Enterprise Software, James Farrar, Management, Microsoft Corp., Safety Condition, Software, Strategy, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Management (SCM)

Blog posts 2008-03-07

Top plasma TV vendors in Q4 2007

iSuppli listed top plasma TV vendors in Q4 2007.     Market share Rank  Vendor  Q3 2007 Q4 2007 1 Panasonic 27.9% 37.1% 2 Samsung 18.4% 19.7% 3 LG Electronics 12.7% 12.7% 4 Hitachi 8.3% 6.5% ...

Tags: TV Company, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, AM

Blog posts 2008-02-28

Happy New Year - and a few tech resolutions

Happy New Year - and a few tech resolutionsResolutions?I thought resolutions were supposed to be challenging...At least they shouldn't all be fun ones. lolBe careful Adrian. The RIAA is now suing people who rip their legally purchased CDs.Why MP3? AAC is open, standard, smaller files, & sounds betterWhy...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Consumer electronics, DVD, RIAA, USB 1, MP3, AAC, CD

Discussion threads 2008-01-01

Before buying an HD display, read this lowdown on 720p vs. 1080i vs 1080p

Before buying an HD display, read this lowdown on 720p vs. 1080i vs 1080pSecond Rule: Beware the Ringers[B]Speaking of shopping in superstores for these bad boys, one thing I've learned is that you don't want to eyeball the image quality of these displays in a typical showroom setting where florescent...

Tags: 1080p, 1080i

Discussion threads 2007-12-10

Why Dell needs a handheld

Why Dell needs a handheldWhere can Dell best compete?There are already plenty of phone manufacturers and there are several good music players available. Where can Dell best compete? Dell had an excellent PDA. I may be the odd one, but I use my Dell Axim X51v for at least...

Tags: Handhelds, PDAs, Palm Inc., smartphone screen, HP iPAQ, Dell Computer Corp., Dell Axim, handheld, Dell Needs

Discussion threads 2007-12-10