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App Happy

By Colleen Lerro
Since getting my iPhone last Christmas I’ve built up several pages of apps. I had no idea how much fun they would add to the phone and how useful they could be. When Apple says, “There’s an app for that,” they mean it. You can find the 10 fresh and funny iphone [...]

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Technology is Still a Girl’s Best Friend

By Cindy Arce
There is a new buzz in your purse and it’s not your cell phone vibrating. It is your makeup! Cosmetics have been fused with technology to bring you a promise of superior quality with advanced application. Last summer the cosmetics giant, Estee Lauder, introduced the first power mascara – Turbolash. The product [...]

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

CE Hall of Fame Honors Industry Leaders

By Carolyn Slater
Earlier this week, CEA held its 10th annual CE Hall of Fame (HOF) awards ceremony, sponsored by CE Vision magazine,  to induct 13 prominent CE industry leaders. The 2009 Inductees join the illustrious ranks of industry inventors, engineers, retailers, journalists and entrepreneurs who have received this honor since 2000.

Gary Shapiro, president and [...]

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Boxee’s Success in Securing VC Financing, And It All Began at i-stage

By Carolyn Slater
This morning I read in the tech news that Boxee, the start-up company that won last year’s i-stage contest just secured another $6 million in financing.  I say “another” because last year they raised $4 million from various venture capitalists.
There’s no doubt the secret to their success was developing a truly great [...]

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

Foreigners Love the Employee Free Choice Act

By Laura Hubbard
Today, founders of a variety of small consumer electronics companies will be walking the marble halls of Congress to educate members on the importance of innovation to our economy and their businesses.
CEA is the nation’s largest technology trade association representing 2,200 U.S. tech companies, with 80 percent of those companies being small businesses. [...]

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Grey Matters

By Katherine Rutkowski
It’s clear from my photo that I’m part of the “older American” demographic. Stereotypes and clichés aside, when it comes to gadgets, ease-of-use IS a big concern. Though not averse to trying new technology, it better not tax my memory with sub-menus and miniscule buttons. At any rate it’s pleasant to report [...]

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

How Young is Too Young for an iPod?

By Ellen Savage
Like most parents, I want to foster my children’s interests.  My five year-old, Matthew, has loved music since infancy –  he sings along with the radio in the car, frequently creates his own songs, and even requested piano lessons a few months ago.  But when he asked for an iPod for Christmas, [...]

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

I, For One, Welcome Our Netbook Overlords…

by Jack Cutts
For those of you who have been living under a rock for most of 2008, “netbooks” have taken the consumer electronics world by storm. While I could wax poetic about the differences between a netbook and a laptop, suffice it to say that a netbook is a small laptop and let’s leave [...]

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

The First Digital President

By Jason Oxman
Our nation welcomed its first Digital President on Tuesday and I was thrilled to be part of the crowd of nearly two million who braved temperatures in the teens to watch it all happen.  Well, watch some of it happen – despite setting out at 9:30, I didn’t actually reach Pennsylvania Ave. [...]

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Technology and Emerging Countries Programs Today at CES

By Brianne O’Leary
Today (Friday) is the second annual Technology and Emerging Countries Program (TEC) at the International CES. Intel Chairman Craig Barrett and Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers will deliver keynote addresses focusing on how crucial technology is in furthering economic growth across the globe.

Cisco Chairman and CEO, John Chambers.
Also part of [...]

Friday, January 9th, 2009