Walmart Is Carrying a $99 Windows 10 Tablet Bentonville, Ark. — E Fun's low-priced line of Nextbook tablets will now feature an 8-inch Windows 10 model, sold exclusively through Walmart at an everyday price of $99.99. More »
Music Industry Grooving On Vinyl The unexpected revival of vinyl record sales is having a residual effect on the healthiness of local, independent record stores, and a music industry group wants to keep the momentum going. More »
Back-To-School Spending Just 'Meh' New York – If back-to-school (BTS) is a bellwether of holiday sales, as many believe, the yuletide may not be all that gay this year. More »
ICYMI: Top Takeaways From Our Windows 10 Test Drive New York – Microsoft made a beta version the new OS, known as Windows 10 Insider Preview, available for trialing purposes earlier this year, and we gave it a go for several weeks here at TWICE. Here are just a few initial impressions, with always keeping the beta part of this in mind. More »
Tweet Of The Day @JosephPalenchar: LG's first take on curved-screen TV, from 50s under Zenith brand that it acquired. At Doo Wop Museum in N.J.
Meet The Gang At OnePlus The upstart phone maker launched its second handset with a virtual reality walk-through of its Shenzhen, China headquarters. More »
Blogs
Eli Manning & Tony Romo Are The New Rob Lowe By John Laposky DirecTV was forced to kill its popular Rob Lowe commercial campaign back in April when the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus ruled that some of the ads' claims were not defensible. Well, the campaign has been revived with New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo taking over as the comedic foils in two new spots touting the NFL Sunday Ticket, a DirecTV exclusive. More »
IoT's Missing Link By Karen McPhillips, PlumChoice There were thousands of new products and innovations introduced at this year's CES – many within the connected-life segment of the Internet of Things (IoT). More »
Miss our "Christmas in July" webinar? If you missed our CE Holiday Sales Preview, an entire replay can be found here!
Now Available: 2015 TWICE Top Reports Package TWICE provides the CE industry with a collection of the most comprehensive and important retail reports. With our partners at the Stevenson Group, we provide sales and trend information for the nation's Top Retailers in four key retail channels: Top 100 Consumer Electronics Retailers, Top 50 Major Appliance Retailers, Top 25 Car Electronics Retailers, and Top 25 CE E-tailers. These reports are a must read for those seeking sales figures, industry trends and market analysis to better understand the depth, breadth and health of consumer spending. With this purchase, you'll get all four TWICE 2015 reports! Click here to purchase the report package.