Just caught this piece of news that Sony’s BDP-S350 Blu-ray Disc player has jumped to the No. 4 position on Amazon.com’s best selling list of consumer electronics products. It is also interesting to note that Samsung has a BD player that is in the No.10 spot. So even with the challenges of the current economic [...]
Read MoreWe’ve just launched a new component to our e-commerce site where consumers can review Sony products based on their personal experience. Just visit SonyStyle.com and click on the category of interest, whether it is televisions, computers, cameras or wherever you have the passion to share your views about Sony products. In particular, this is [...]
Read MoreAs I think about Barack Obama’s historic election to become the nation’s first black president, I wonder about the impact he’ll have on the nation’s economy and, in particular, the consumer electronics industry. Economically, I have some reservations about possible wealth distribution, taxation and artificial job creation strategies. There’s also the issue of a whopping Federal [...]
Read MoreThis week’s news about Circuit City’s plans to close about 20 percent or 155 of its U.S. stores in 12 cities, coupled with last week’s report that the Tweeter chain has been sold to a liquidator, offer an indication of what the consumer electronics industry is up against going into the important Holiday buying and [...]
Read MoreI spoke at a sold-out Advertising Research Foundation forum for industry leaders in New York last week that was centered around the basic concept of listening to the consumer. Most of the presenters and the audience were professional market researchers at corporations and familiar brands like General Mills, Procter & Gamble and MTV, or else [...]
Read MoreAs advertised, I spent an hour in New York City this week reading a new book about the historic hero of The War of 1812 fame and U.S. President Andrew Jackson on the Sony Reader Digital book — clearly one of my favorite electronics products these days — in the Fifth Avenue storefront window of DataVision. [...]
Read MoreSony has issued a press release expressing its support for voluntary recalls announced today by a handful of PC manufacturers and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, encompassing a relatively small number of about 35,000 notebook battery packs believed to be in current use in the States and another 65,000 estimated in other parts of [...]
Read MoreI’m looking forward to a quick trip to New York this week where I will be speaking at a sold-out marketing research forum about the blog, along with other new media and social networking initiatives going on here at Sony. While I’m there on Wednesday, I will spend an hour filling in for Dave Farrow, [...]
Read MoreI spent three days in Las Vegas this week and didn’t even have a chance to gamble. Most of the time was spent in various meetings that were part of the Consumer Electronics Association’s annual fall industry forum, including a Communications Committee meeting and numerous breakout sessions on topics ranging from the "greening" of [...]
Read MoreC’mon on now — who hasn’t watched a James Bond movie and thought “how cool it would be to a secret agent?” We may not be able to send you off to an exotic locale or put you in touch with M but we might just be able to hook you up with a cool [...]
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