For example, silver became the color of choice for cell phones, computers and home entertainment systems in the early to mid-2000s.

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While same-store sales rose for categories like mobile phones, tablets, and appliances, they fell in segments like entertainment, computers, and TVs.

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Featuring a simple, single cord set-up, the new space-saving Inspiron all-in-one computers make life easy and deliver powerful entertainment for the whole family.

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In a letter to investors, Hastings credited the gains to people's interest in watching a wide range of entertainment on the tablet computers and Internet-connected TVs that they got as holiday gifts.

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Youth-oriented TV drama factory The CW is hoping that Entertainment Weekly readers are interested in taking Twitter from smartphones and computers to the printed page -- er, at least a printed page with an LCD insert attached.

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Our computers link us with family and friends, help us plan future travels, and are our source of entertainment in places where movies and television in English are elusive.

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