There is a threat to the Global Positioning System (GPS) industry, affecting both your car on the highway and the planes in the sky. And it’s going to happen in a year. By Bob Plunkett In January 2010,…
Robert Plunkett and the staff of Digital Family Advisor How Dell, HP and others missed the tablet boat. Around 20 years ago, in a cafe about two blocks from one of the biggest newspapers in the country, two…
Are you smarter than your TV, mobile phone, oven? By Katharine Czechowski & Richard Sherwin Las Vegas, NV Ready or not the big appliance makers, TV makers and computer makers are trying to make their products smarter. In…
The more brands change the more consumers have to do their homework when buying electronics and appliances. By Richard M. Sherwin Lately, during product introductions, Apple polishers, Sony aficionados, Samsung “Sammies”and “gotta” get “big brands” consumers all got…
Another in the Digital Family Advisor Series: What’s In a Brand Name? By Richard M. Sherwin “Hyundai” (pronounced Hun-day, like Sunday) means “modern” in Korean, to convey Hyundai’s continuing new technologies and designs. The company is part of…
It seems that Polaroid, once it was closed down and sold for a few cans of film and an old tri-pod, is one of the brands that will never die. The latest incarnation and maybe the best one…
Defying the consumer ratings services and the unreliable bloggers, our experts pick what they purchased, used, enjoyed and would recommend to our readers and viewers: From the Digital Family Advisor staff: Livia Bergovoy, Barry Melemed, Katharine Czechowksi, Richard…
Defying the consumer ratings services and the unreliable bloggers, our experts pick what they purchased, used, enjoyed and would recommend to our readers and viewers: From the Digital Family Advisor staff: Livia Bergovoy, Barry Melemed, Katharine Czechowksi, Richard…
The best and worst of the new product introductions for fall… By Richard M. Sherwin Bose-Os Bose, the formerly top notch elite audio company, which has morphed into a sort of airline terminal super overpriced retailer hasn’t had…
October, 2010: I have been in the consumer technology business so long that sometimes I get jaded the umpteenth time someone introduces the next easiest way to network your home entertainment content or shows off a security camera…
September, 2010: New York, N.Y. Recently I worked with some of the greatest names in technology. Between my family, my friends and even a few frenemies that needed a bit of audio-video-computer home networking advice, I had to…
Why Wait for the Verizon IPhone? Quietly for the last year or so, while waiting to kiss Steve Jobs’ butt for a Verizon version of the iPhone, the world’s largest phone company was planning a surprise Apple biting…