By Cat Parsons

Some of you faithful Amazon.com purchasers like me may have noticed a strange little plastic bag in your latest box of books, CD’s or consumer electronics – a bag touting “Cell Phones for Soldiers”. These bags are part of a unique cell phone recycling program being sponsored by several companies including CEA members […]

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By Katherine Rutkowski

Following a fender bender in a 14-year old Geo Prizm, I was in the market for an econo-box with decent gas mileage and adequate safety features. Call me Rip Van Winkle, but I was amazed at the techno-marvels available in the compact and subcompact classes. The Toyota Matrix above has a moonroof – […]

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By Deb Kassoff and Colleen Gorman
Deb’s Perspective
With less than four feet between our workstations, my colleague Colleen and I chat daily about things ranging from work to our personal lives. We recently had a discussion that involved both – does working at CEA influence the gift choices we make for our own friends and […]

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By Steve Kidera
In my last blog entry (scroll down to read the masterpiece), I wrote about the two great loves in my life…sports and HDTVs. My dad, who shares my love of sports, commented my next entry should be about a (hypothetical) man who lives in a house with one other person, they own […]

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By Michael Petricone
As a reader of this blog, you know that the U.S. technology industry is driven by exports. And you also probably know that Congress is inexplicably holding up the U.S. – Colombia Trade Promotion Act which would remove tariffs on American goods going to Colombia (Colombian goods currently enter the U.S. […]

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By Megan Hayes
No, it’s not because people in the CE industry are too busy to find romance any other way. In this case it’s the products doing the speed dating. The common attraction for these products is that they connect using HDMI. HDMI makes use of the CEA-861 standard and High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection […]

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Dateline: October 13th, 1983 – The first commercial cellphone call is made from the parking lot of Soldier Field in Chicago.
I believe it was the immortal Gordon Gekko from the film Wall Street, who proclaimed over his DynaTac phone while walking on the beach, “Let’s get to work.” CEA will be getting to work […]

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