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HDTVs sales back on the rise, but smaller, cheaper sets may dominate

Though they never completely tanked like some other goods, HDTVs certainly hit a bump in the road during the economic downturn. But as the economy begins to rebound, it appears that TV sales are starting to grow again as well—though a new era of frugality may be on the way....

Tags: HDTV, Retrevo, TVs, Sales Strategy, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sales, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Surprise! As HDTVs price rise, sales drop and Vizio becomes the biggest brand

After the holiday season is over and the Super Bowl has been played, TV sales traditionally flag. Especially given the fragile state of the current economy, you'd think TV makers would respond to the lull with major price cuts instead of the usual increases they institute at this time of...

Tags: Brand, HDTV, Electronics, Price, Retrevo, Sales Strategy, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-05-10

Retrevo plays matchmaker between consumers and electronics

I use search engines, primarily Google, all the time to find mobile device reviews, specifications, manual, rumors, and other information. While Google is very good, it also returns back a ton of information that isn't always what I am looking for and I have to spend time weeding through the...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Retrevo, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2007-11-19

Retrevo tackles consumer electronics search

Retrevo introduced a vertical search site at DemoFall 2006 focused on consumer electronics content.The company applies semantic analysis and clustering and classification technology to more precisely deliver query results. "We are finding deep content in hard to find places on the Web and presenting it in a categorized display," said...

Tags: Retrevo, Vipin Jain

Blog posts 2006-09-27

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Digital camera sales still strong, Retrevo report says

Apparently the sour economy hasn't deterred eager photographers from buying new cameras. Retrevo, a consumer electronics shopping site, has found an uptick in digital camera sales this year. Demand for digital cameras declined 30% in 2008, whereas purchases have risen with tiny dips here and there since the...

Tags: Digital Camera, Camera, Digital Cameras, Sales Strategy, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sales, Rachel King

Blog posts 2009-10-02

What recession? HDTV prices rise 10 percent in February

HDTV prices have been falling for as long as anyone can remember, and given the poor state of the economy, there was no reason to believe those prices were going to stop dropping anytime soon. Throw in the fact that the holiday shopping season and the Super Bowl (a.k.a. the...

Tags: Recession, HDTV, Price, Sales Strategy, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Sales Force Management, Retail, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-03-08

2009 predictions: GPS & MP3 'brutal,' laptops 'cheaper,' phone 'decline'

I had the occasion to exchange correspondence with Vipin Jain, CEO of Sunnyvale, Cali.-based Retrevo, a site and search engine that helps consumers buy and use electronics. Here at ZDNet, we've explained what we think will happen in 2009, and I thought I'd add Vipin's outlook for some of ZDNet's...

Tags: Consumer Electronics Show, Brand, Phone, Camcorder, HDTV, Cell Phone, Camera, Laptop Computer, GPS, Home Entertainment, Tv & Home Theater, TVs, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-13

CES: Mobility at the ShowStoppers event

CES 2008 in Vegas doesn't seem quite as busy on the show floor, but there were a ton of press at the Digital Experience! and ShowStoppers events. There isn't a ton of new and breakthrough devices, but there are some cool products if you look around a bit. I had...

Tags: Mobile, Headset, Mobility, ShowStoppers, Neuros OSD, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Wake up to the 'daylight-saving' bug

Wake up to the 'daylight-saving' bugPlenty of people...I for one, still have a Win2k Server. Some of my clients likewise haven't seen the need to get Windows 2003 server.So will companies have a snit every time some politician changes the DST?!*sigh*Y2K seemed more of a hassle than changing when we...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 2000, Servers, Patches, DST Change, Y2K, DST, server

Discussion threads 2007-02-16