Archive for: March 21, 2008

Filed under: Features, Wireless
So now that the dust is settling, winners are boasting, and Auction 73 is in the record books, it’s instance to take a good, tough look back on what was, what is, and what could’ve been. As we all now know, Verizon came absent with the biggest prize — the giant Block…

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The selling of electronics as an affiliate marketer can be a very lucrative business. If you find the right niche at the right time… the skies the limit. But it seems that consumer spending on electronics is on a rapid decline.

Huge Decline in Consumer Electronics Spending According to Latest ChangeWave Survey

The latest consumer spending survey from ChangeWave Research shows a sudden huge pullback in U.S. consumer retail spending on electronics — the largest decline since 2002.

The survey of 4,427 consumers, conducted February 18-25, looked at discretionary spending on a range of popular electronic devices, including video game consoles, digital cameras and iPods. The ChangeWave survey network identifies technology products, companies and sectors best-positioned to capitalize in today’s markets.

In an unprecedented sign of weakness, only 19% of survey respondents say they’ll spend more on electronics over the next 90 days compared to 33% who will spend less.

“These results clearly show that the consumer electronics sector is getting whacked,” said Tobin Smith, founder of ChangeWave Research and editor of ChangeWave Investing.

(Detailed charts on consumer electronics trends, along with additional ChangeWave findings can be downloaded at changewave.com/electronics).

Hardest Hit Consumer Electronics Stores

The spending downturn will disproportionately affect key electronics retailers, with Best Buy (BBY) (45%; down 6-pts) and Circuit City (CC) (14%; down 3-pts) hit hardest. Amazon (16%; down 3-pts), Apple (6%; down 3-pts) and eBay (7%; down 2-pts) will also register declines.

Costco (COST; 23%) and Wal-Mart (WMT; 12%) are the top two stores bucking the consumer retail spending downturn — both of which look set to maintain their consumer electronics market share going forward.

Hardest Hit Electronics Items

Several consumer electronics favorites will be hit hard over the ...

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While folks at the Xbox 360 repair lab know good and well how to strip a console back to its birthday suit, Microsoft is going the opposite direction with its limited run of Grand Theft Auto IV Elites. The console itself is purportedly blasted with automotive quality paint and ea…

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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
You might recall The Onion breaking the news back in October that the Apple backlash was set to start as of today, and whether The Onion says it, it’s got to be true. Right? certain, the Cupertino fruit company’s been riding high as of late, but whether America’s Fines…

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Filed under: Storage
The alphabet soup of different flash memory technologies is already a little bewildering, but it looks like the latest entrant could end up being the most promising of all, with one chip storage capacities of 1TB expected within ten years. Called array-based memory, the tech has…

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We still think Gibson’s attempt to claim that Guitar Hero violates its patent on “simulating a musical performance with a musical instrument” is totally unfounded and ridiculous for a number of reasons (it involves a “3-D headset,” for one), but we can sort of see why the company…

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After a minor outcry at Sony’s new “Fresh Start” option to skip the crapware on TZ laptops for a hefty $50 charge, the company has seen the error of its ways and is going to start offering the option for free as of tomorrow. certain, it would’ve been nice to have it like that fr…

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A new version of Mozilla’s popular Firefox Web browser is ready for download with improved safety degree and memory use as the tiny company takes a stab at Microsoft’s dominant Net Explorer. The program’s creators told Reuters on Thursday that the privately-held company’s trial version of Firefox 3 …

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Filed under: Features, Misc. GadgetsAriel Waldman contributes Movie Gadget Friday, where she highlights the lovable and lame gadgets from the world of cinema.In honor of the loss of one of our greatest sci-fi heroes, film Gadget Friday is paying homage to the inimitable Arthur C. Clarke with a two-p…

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“I used KDE as my primary desktop from 1996 through 2006, when I installed the GNOME version of Ubuntu and found that I liked it better than the KDE desktop I’d faced every AM for so many years. final January, I got a new Dell Latitude D630 laptop and decided to install Kubuntu on it, but within a f…

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