May 3rd, 2012

Decide.com Brings Its Price Comparisons To iPad; Reveals Plans To Expand To Household Goods & Cars

Decide iPad homepage screen shot

Smart shopping service Decide.com, which started off with a focus on consumer electronics before its recent addition of home appliances, is a unique player in the comparison shopping market. The service doesn’t just return prices and reviews, it actually tells whether to buy or wait to buy a given product by analyzing market conditions, trends, news, product release history, and more. Today, that… → Read More

August 11th, 2010

3D A Relative Flop, TV Manufacturers Talk Up Apps

What do you do when you hype up a relatively nascent video technology that is intrinsically unpopular because of the anti-social tendencies foisted upon its customers as well as the perception that it’s “Just a gimmick?” Pretend it never existed and add on another gimmick! CES is coming up in January and expect the run up to include almost no talk of 3D TV and plenty of talk… → Read More

August 3rd, 2009

CEA members don't like carting away garbage, try to beat NYC recycling laws

The CEA represents the CE industry and runs CES. The CE industry likes to make and ship thing but it doesn’t like to recycle them. Therefore, in the proud tradition of astroturfing, it’s fighting back against New York City Local Laws 13 and 21 of 2008 which, in a nutshell, says that all CE manufacturers must pick up and recycle broken or obsolete equipment. Obviously CE manufacturers… → Read More