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28 million to use home-energy displays by 2015. By 2015, more than 28 million people will be using home-energy displays to keep track of their usage, according to a new report from Pike Research.

Internet censorship plan gets the green light

The Australian Government has announced it will proceed with controversial plans to censor the internet after Government-commissioned trials found filtering a blacklist of banned sites was accurate and would not slow down the internet.

LG commits to 3-D TV production forecast

Looking to carve out a leadership position in the market for 3-D TVs, LG Electronics has announced that it will ship 400,000 of the sets next year and hopes to bump that up to 3.4 million units by 2011.

NBN Co appoints head of construction

THE company delivering the Australian government's national broadband network has appointed former Service Stream chief executive Patrick Flannigan as its head of construction.

Word of mouth major influencer in electronics purchases

Marketing and brand initiatives are secondary to personal recommendations when it comes to consumer-electronics sales, as word of mouth influences about 43.7% of purchase

Web-enabled mobile devices to hit 1B by 2013

By 2013, there will be more than 1 billion Internet-enabled mobile devices worldwide, and the number of people using those devices will more than double from the current 450 million.

After a slow start, Blu-ray players are coming on strong

Three years after its introduction, the Blu-ray player has achieved a market penetration of 7% in the U.S., according to the Consumer Electronics Association, and is on track to exceed sales of previous movie players such as VCRs and DVDs for the same time frame.

Study says TV remains the top media choice

A new study by Deloitte reports that TV is the top media choice for 34% of U.S. respondents, the highest of any entertainment platform.

Companies join forces on Web-to-TV set-top box

A startup firm named Boxee has joined forces with Taiwanese networking-equipment maker D-Link to supply the technology for a new set-top box that will transfer online videos to TV sets.

Good old TV is still good 99% of the time

A study from Nielsen shows that people still watch video content on their TVs 99% of the time. The research firm's latest "Third Screen Report" said that, on average, viewers watch 31 hours of TV each week compared with 22 minutes of online video and three minutes of mobile video
Amazon Launches DVD + On Demand: Is It the Future of Movies?
Looking to bridge the gap between physical and digital home entertainment distribution, Amazon will now offer purchasers of select DVD and Blu-ray titles the immediate gratification of a free download of the movie.

Part of the Daily American Diet, 34 Gigabytes of Data

The information an average American consumes has jumped 350 percent over about three decades, a report says.

Cello Electronics to debut new Web-connected HDTVs

Cello Electronics of Britain announced a new 1080p HDTV that connects to the Internet via Ethernet or Wi-Fi connection.
 

 

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