Sprint Fires Another Shot In Price War
Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint and T-Mobile, once potential merger partners, are breaking up badly. More »
Sears' Woes Continue Amid Turnaround Efforts
Hoffman Estates, Ill. — Sears Holdings announced a half-billion net loss for its second quarter, ended Aug. 2, a result that chairman and CEO Edward S. Lampert called "unacceptable." More »
Global Q2 Notebook Shipments Up 1%
Santa Clara, Calif. — After seven consecutive quarters of shipment declines, the global notebook PC market showed slight improvement in the second quarter (Q2) of 2014, according to NPD DisplaySearch mobile PC shipment and forecast numbers. More »
NATM Names Satoren As Executive Director
Smithtown, N.Y. — NATM Buying Corp. announced the hiring of Jerry Satoren as the buying group's new executive director. More »
Carrier Cat Fight Intensifies With T-Mobile Offer
Bellevue, Wash. – In another sign of intense competition among carriers, T-Mobile responded to Sprint's new pricing initiatives by offering free unlimited LTE data for a year to T-Mobile Simple Choice subscribers who convince a Sprint, AT&T, or Verizon subscriber to switch to T-Mobile. The person who switches also gets unlimited LTE data for a year. More »
CEA: Tablet Ownership, Purchase Intent High
Arlington, Va. - More people own tablets, and still more people want them, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) reported. More »
Acer Adds Chromebox CXI Pair
San Jose, Calif. — Acer America introduced Thursday its new compact Chromebox CXI series targeting the education, small- to medium-business and budget-conscious user markets. More »
Blogs
Independents Back Best Buy's Ultra HD Effort
By Steve Smith
Whenever top CE brands get together with a national retailer to, basically, jumpstart a vital new technology for the industry, you should expect howls of complaints from independent retailers. More »
BlackBerry Plays To Its Base
By Joseph Palenchar
BlackBerry got its start in the 1990s selling secure "redirection" of corporate email to pager-like two-way messaging devices (pagers). One of its original keyboard-equipped devices holds a coveted position in my Wireless Hall of Fame in my attic. More »
Videos
TWICE senior editor Alan Wolf sat down with Dave Bilas, president/COO of Nationwide Marketing Group; Frank Sandtner, member services senior VP of Nationwide Marketing Group; and Sam Abdelnour, sales VP of Whirlpool North America, during the recent Nationwide PrimeTime buy fair earlier this month.
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