Pearse and others dream of unifying the mess, with a box that blends both optics and electronics, fusing the circuit-switched world of phone calls and packet-switched world of Internet data.
The electro electric systems business markets transformers, switchgears, circuit breakers, power electronics and control systems and others.
That would be painful for landlords but nothing like the hit they took when bookseller Borders Group and electronics chain Circuit City liquidated.
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Units go on sale today at TiVo.com and should be showing up within the next week or so at Best Buy, Circuit City, Fry's, and Ultimate Electronics.
In keeping with the budget theme, Wal-Mart will be the first to carry the players, with electronics chains like Best Buy and Circuit City following.
After struggling to turn a profit for the past year and a half, troubled consumer electronics retailer Circuit City filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday.
Multi-Fineline Electronics, a provider of flexible printed circuit boards used in mobile phones and other products, late Thursday warned that results for its fiscal third quarter ended June 30 will fall short of previous estimates.
Retailers such as Circuit City and Best Buy were slammed by a 27% drop in sales of appliances and consumer electronics during the last holiday season.
Singapore makes lots of other electronics devices: printers, CD-ROM drives, DVD drives and printed circuit boards -- not to mention DRAMs (memory chips) and the sound cards and graphics cards found in PCs.
Meanwhile, Circuit City, a big electronics retailer, said it would cut about 17% of its workforce and close 155 of its stores ahead of the Christmas season.
In keeping with the budget theme, Wal-Mart (nyse: WMT - news - people ) will be the first to carry the players, with electronics chains like Best Buy (nyse: BBY - news - people ) and Circuit City (nyse: CC - news - people ) following.
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