Consumer Electronics News

Monday, January 9, 2012

Blog: What happens at CES in Vegas ... goes here
Rodney Brown, MHT Managing Editor-News: It looks like there are a lot of local announcements coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, as well as the concurrent and conjoined AT&T Developer Summit also in Sin City. Here's an aggregate of the announcements that come from New England tech companies.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Blog: Going to Vegas for CES? Think globally
U.S. Dept. of Commerce's Melissa Branzburg: It goes without saying that foreign buyers love American products and they have made a big investment to come to the International CES show to satisfy their long list of needs. This is an excellent chance to grow your sales and your business without ever needing to leave the country.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Blog: Apple ditches hype over iPhone 4S for straight tech talk
MHT News Editor Rodney Brown blogs: As a veteran Apple basher, it may come as a surprise to many that I was impressed with the reveal event Tuesday about Apple Inc.'s new iPhone 4S. Not about the technology, per se, but about what Apple did not do.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Blog: Kindle Fire fires a pricing shot across the tablet sea
MHT News Editor Rodney Brown blogs: The biggest takeaway from today's launch announcement from Amazon Inc. of its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, is that price will win.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Mobile bandwidth crunch causing concern for innovation, extra pay
The growing mobile-bandwidth crunch is a simple, immutable fact of physics that proves with the explosive growth of smart-device use, there’s still only a limited radio-frequency spectrum that can be used. As a result, the various forces are marshaling resources to combat the growing problem, and not without some controversy or complaints.

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Survey says: A Tectonic Tech Shift
A new survey conducted by The Business Journals shows small- and midsize-business owners are more connected than ever to technology, significantly boosting the time spent on the Internet, their use of social networks, and their adoption of new tech tools.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Blog: 5 reasons Steve Jobs doesn't matter
MHT Reporter Galen Moore blogs: Whether the iPad 2 crushes its pack of competitors or not, Apple has done it again: we're on tenterhooks to see whether Steve Jobs will strut on the stage. But, a more important question is: who else will be on stage, with or without Jobs?

Friday, January 7, 2011

New England companies show off tech gear at CES
Isabella Products Inc., TomTom NV, Immerz Inc., iRobot Corp. and Iomega are among the companies with local ties that are trying to make a big splash with new products and new deals at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Blog: Apple iPhone 4 – rotten security or rotten marketing?
Apparently someone else has “accidently” let slip one of the alleged new Apple Inc. prototype iPhone 4 HD models. I would bet that the iPhones were strategically “lost” to generate the kind of massive viral buzz that a company can only dream of.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The iPad makes entry into emergency room
John D. Halamka, MD and CIO at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, turned his blog over to Dr. Larry Nathanson so Nathanson, who leads BIDMC’s Emergency Medicine Informatics initiative could record his initial experience in using a fresh-from-the-box Apple Inc. iPad in the emergency room.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Cambridge startup preps Android-based competitor to iPad
Cambridge startup Tap ‘n Tap Inc. is working on two alternative touch-screen tablet products to the Apple iPad that are set to debut this year at a lower price and based on Google Inc.’s Android operating system.

Monday, December 14, 2009

In-screen speaker firm Emo Labs lands $1.5M
Emo Labs Inc. , the in-screen speaker company developing sound equipment for flat-screen televisions, has secured $1.5 million in financing, a tranche of a $2.7 million round.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Monotype Imaging acquires Planetweb
Text imaging company Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. has paid $1.9 million in cash for the assets of Planetweb Inc., a consumer electronics industry provider of embedded user interface software and development tools.

Monday, December 7, 2009

ModusLink pays $30M for consumer tech reseller
Waltham-based ModusLink Global Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq: MLNK) has acquired Tech for Less LLC, a Colorado-based company that buys and re-sells surplus consumer technology products, for $30 million in cash.

Friday, October 9, 2009

Newton Peripherals’ Bluetooth headset awaits Apple’s marketing magic
Newton Peripherals Inc. has scored a lucrative contract to sell its Bluetooth headset, MogoTalk for iPhone, in Apple Inc.’s 220 high-profile retail stores this fall, offering iPhone owners an ultra-thin earpiece that stores and charges in a protective plastic case that is barely larger than the device itself.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Emerging Technologies: Emerging tech trends in brief
Analyst firms expound on subjects such as location-based services, networked TVs and cloud computing, among others.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Gadget Review: What it's like to live with the Palm Pre, iPhone 3GS
Boston Business Journal's Eric Convey: This month, your friendly gadget columnist spent some serious time with two of the hottest gadgets of the year: the Palm Pre and the Apple Inc. iPhone 3GS. Hopefully in this review you'll get a truer sense of what it’s like to own one; consider it a report after the onset of the seven-year itch, as measured in gadget lifetimes.
Policy Tracker: Baby boomers as entrepreneurs; Obsolete work cell phone tax
Over the past decade, Americans between 55 and 64 years old had the highest rate of entrepreneurship. And in other news, the Internal Revenue Service has decided it doesn’t want to tax personal use of cell phones provided by employers.

Friday, June 26, 2009

Apple iPhone upgrade delivers opportunity for app developers
Developers in New England see a much wider world of opportunity with Apple's new release of version 3.0 of its iPhone OS. Already, the App Store has more than 53,000 apps available. Mass High Tech profiles companies that picked the iPhone as their platform of choice and some looking at the iPhone platform to help expand an established customer base.
New cell phones bring bargains on old phones
Several local companies are hoping to take advantage of the many new mobile phone releases and upgrades — from the iPhone to the Palm Pre — by reselling the previous versions to consumers seeking cool phones at good prices.