SXSW: The Intersection of Content and Technology

March 13, 2013
South by Southwest® – the set of film, technology and music conferences which takes place in Austin, Texas each year – is underway and filling the news with stories of how technology, film and music intersect in our modern world. The ways in which new technologies are evolving our preferred methods of consuming content can be seen in a number of product announcements at SXSW. For example, Marvel Comics used the conference to promote the distribution of comics in the Infinite Comics format for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Marvel announced that the first issue of 700 different comics would be free to download for a limited time – and the demand very...

Tech Teens Want Most

March 11, 2013
CE retailers, move your gaming gear front and center on store shelves and parents, hide your wallets, because it’s Teen Tech Week (March 10-16). Sponsored by the Young Adult Library Association, Teen Tech Week is designed to teach teens to be competent and ethical users of technology, especially in libraries.   While librarians showcase the latest tech gadgets and online resources for responsible computing (think homework help and digital literacy), retailers and manufacturers can take this opportunity to focus on what teens say they want most: gaming, computing and wireless products.   According to CEA’s 9th Annual Teen CE Holiday Purchase Patterns Study, 19...

Inputs/Outputs: March 2013

March 04, 2013
Each month i3 recaps the latest comings and goings of CE industry executives. To submit your company’s announcements, email inputsoutputs@CE.org. 3D Technology Firm Names New EVPRealD Inc., a global licensor of 3D technologies, has hired Minard Hamilton to be executive vice president of its mobile and consumer division, in charge of commercializing RealD’s visional technologies for multi-platform CE applications. Hamilton joins RealD from mobile/online game company Six Degree Games, where he served as CEO. Hamilton’s career also includes stints at mobile game publisher JAMDAT Mobile and at ESPN, where he was senior vice president of ESPN International and general...

Will Sony’s Next-Gen PlayStation Console Invigorate the Gaming Market?

February 20, 2013
Sony Corp.’s anticipated announcement of its new gaming console Wednesday marks the first time in six years that the company has made significant changes to its living room hardware. Sony’s PlayStation 3 was released in 2006, same year that the Nintendo Wii came to market and one year after Microsoft debuted the Xbox 360. This lull between console generations is relatively standard across the industry; historically, the average lifecycle of a gaming console has been about six years, with hardware manufacturers debuting a new console roughly every five years. And recent expansion in the gaming industry has focused on mobile gaming on tablets and smartphones. What we assume...

Exploring Tech Trends in Political Campaigns

February 14, 2013
As we head into President’s Day weekend, i3 revisits a recent CEA report on how social media has changed presidential politics and election cycles. “The single most crucial concept, reduced to one word which will be repeated throughout this study, is data,” writes CEA’s Sean Murphy in 5 Technology Trends to Watch 2012.  “It is now a common, uncritically-received talking point that Barack Obama’s [2008] presidential campaign staff embraced, and exploited, social media to help secure victory. The reality is at once simpler and far more complex than this. True, the Obama operation shrewdly incorporated many nascent possibilities of social media to...

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the Latest Tech Gadgets

February 11, 2013
In recent years, technology has changed the way we shop for, celebrate and remember Valentine’s Day. Maybe you’re ordering flowers, gift baskets or chocolates online or through a smartphone app. Are you checking in and sharing your Valentine’s Day plans through a social media site? In fact, ProFlowers has a list of handy Valentine’s Day planning apps you might find useful ahead of this holiday.There’s no shortage of gift ideas this Valentine’s Day. Maybe your sweetheart didn’t get something on his or her tech wish list this past holiday season. CEA’s 19th Annual CE Holiday Purchase Patterns Study, released in October, examines purchase...

Inputs/Outputs: February 2013

February 04, 2013
Inputs/Outputs is i3's monthly column highlighting job comings and goings within the CE sector. Email the latest hiring and promotion news and photos from your organization to inputsoutputs@ce.org.Warner Bros. Entertainment Names Tsujihara CEO Time Warner Inc. has tapped Kevin Tsujihara to be the next chief executive officer of film and tv studio Warner Bros. Entertainment, effective March 1. Tsujihara will succeed Barry Meyer, who served as CEO for more than 13 years. Meyer will continue to serve as chairman of the company through 2013.   Tsujihara, who joined the company in 1994, has served as president of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) Group since 2005, where...

Football Drives HDTV sales, CEA Study Finds

February 01, 2013
A new CEA study finds that football is more than just the national pastime – it’s also an excuse to shop for a new TV. According to CEA’s forthcoming Sports and Technology Study V, nearly a quarter (22 percent) of high-definition television (HDTV) owners in the U.S. bought a new set in order to watch the Super Bowl – the highest ranking sporting event to affect HDTV purchases.   But come Sunday night, TVs won’t be the only CE devices capturing football fans’ attention. Of the 70 percent of online U.S. adults who say they’ll follow the championship game between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers, 10 percent say they’ll...

Nominate your Small Business for the Innovation Entrepreneur Awards

January 28, 2013
Calling all small business visionaries! CEA wants to hear your story of excellence in entrepreneurship. Have your company’s innovations positively contributed to the advancement of the CE industry? Is your small business promoting growth in the U.S. economy? Now in its second year, CEA’s Innovation Entrepreneur Awards recognize visionaries leading businesses with revenues under $30 million. Co-sponsored by It Is Innovation (i3) and the CEA Small Business Council, these awards honor the small business owners who contribute to the U.S. economy by demonstrating innovation, dedication to the industry, community outreach and the tenacity to persevere through business and economic...
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