The Consumer Association campaign has been backed by the medical charity Action Research.
Attractive design and advanced engineering are necessary but not sufficient: these days manufacturers need the image, the automatic consumer association with excitement, to lend an aura to their boxes on wheels.
For that, I recently spoke with Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association about the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show that runs from January 8-11.
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Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, the U.S. trade association representing some 2, 000 consumer electronics companies, and author of The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream.
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U.S. trade association representing some 2, 000 consumer electronics companies, and author of the New York Times bestseller The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream.
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the U.S. trade association representing more than 2, 000 consumer electronics companies, and author of The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream.
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The American Bankers Association, the Financial Services Roundtable and the Consumer Bankers Association have gone to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to try to stop a California law that restricts how they can use customer information.
This week the U.S. Consumer Electronics Association predicted better-than-average sales for consumer electronics, led by tablets.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Association, 2007 was the worst year ever in terms of the number of product recalls, with 467 consumer products recalled--and that doesn't include auto and medical snafus.
Today, 79% of American households own digital cameras, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
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The Consumer Finance Association said most people pay back their loans on time and without penalties.
That calendar year, consumers bought 350, 000 DVD players, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
While the A3000 was honored by the Consumer Electronics Association by receiving a 2013 CES Innovations Award.
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This sleekly designed cube was honored by the Consumer Electronics Association with a 2013 CES Innovations Award.
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Sponsored by trade group the Consumer Electronics Association, the show was started in 1967 in New York.
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It all chimed with the narrative outlined at a press conference by Shawn DuBravac, the chief economist of the Consumer Electronics Association.
Today, the Consumer Electronics Association, which runs CES, answered the question: the job goes to Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs.
"This would be the death of business in America, " says Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association.
Sales of e-readers doubled last year, and the Consumer Electronics Association, which stages CES, predicts they will double again in 2010.
Connectivity is one of the show's major trends, says Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Electronics Association, which organizes the event.
But the Consumer Finance Association, which represents some of shops, said it advised people not to borrow their way out of debt.
"We have over 150, 000 people coming, " the man responsible for the event, US's Consumer Electronics Association president Gary Shapiro, tells the BBC.
Global retail consumer electronics sales are expected to grow 10% in 2011, after 13% growth in 2010, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
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For a list of resources to sell or just donate unwanted electronics, check out digitaltips.org, a site from the Consumer Electronics Association.
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As the Consumer Electronics Association noted today, in the U.S. something close to 99% of households have televisions, averaging 2.9 sets per household.
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Keith notes that while the Consumer Electronics Association sees industry growth this year of 5.6%, Best Buy sees same store sales flat to down 3%.
The UltraHD format was voted by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) last October and refers devices with a horizontal resolution of at least 3, 840 pixels.
The group also held their first Consumer Electronics Association-endorsed press conference.
Tim Herbert, senior director of research at the Consumer Electronics Association, says tech accessories should sell well all through the holidays as consumers tighten their belts.
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