By Jim Barry, CEA’s Digital Answer Man
One of the things I do often in my travels as CEA’s “Digital Answer Man” is hand new gadgets – wireless phones, e-books, mp3 players − to folks at TV stations, radio stations and newspapers. Recently I’ve noticed that virtually everyone reflexively begins to tap the screen whether [...]
By Sean Murphy
With the benefit of hindsight, everyone now knows that the music industry, by taking so long to see the writing on the wall, squandered valuable time to adapt and innovate. The incredibly successful and occasionally sordid history of how records got made and sold too often enriched the labels and disenfranchised the [...]
By Molly McLearn
I’m getting married in less than a week and I have to be honest, creating a registry was not one of my favorite pre-wedding activities. Actually, the only reason I created a registry was so that people wouldn’t get me a bunch of random stuff I’d never use. I am a very [...]
By Sean Murphy
CE products are perpetually in some state of transition. Movies, for instance, were silent, then shown on public screens, then available on private screens (TVs), and now they can be viewed on PCs and smartphones. Music went from vinyl to reel-to-reel to digital, with the hardware constantly becoming smaller to the point [...]
By Megan Hayes
This summer, I took a vacation to Russia. I visited one of my college buddies while I was staying in Moscow, and I took an overnight train to St. Petersburg. Russia is just one of those places I always wanted to visit, but never had the reason. Kevin gave me the reason [...]
By Sean Murphy
Ten years ago in the Emerging Market Update, CEA’s own Angela Titone wrote about a technology to keep an eye on. At that time, the product in question − e-books − anticipated being able to store up to 10 average-length novels, and ranged in price from $199 to $1,5000!
How times have changed.
While [...]
By Colleen Gorman
A tradition began in my family about 10 years ago that has snowballed and really taken on a life of its own. For each major life event in a family member’s life, that person can expect to be serenaded to by the rest of the family. At last count, the “rest of [...]
