CES 2012 marks the beginning of mainstream Wi-Fi integration in cameras and camcorders. Canon, Kodak, Samsung, and Sony are among those in the game with wireless introductions, a move that could very likely score with consumers and an imaging segment that has been struggling.
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Smartphones are an addiction for easily bored people. They tell you sports scores, weather, news, and let you play games — all while you’re waiting that interminable 15 minutes in a restaurant before you get your meal. The thing smartphones can’t do, I’m quickly learning, is download a lot of applications over a 3G network. Read more »
The uneasy relationship between digital delivery and physical stores has a steadily improving history. In 2004, as its Virgin Megastores were struggling, parent company Virgin funded Virgin Electronics, which quickly disappeared in 2005 in the shadow of the iPod. (My colleague Stephen Baker is quoted in this CNET-authored obituary.) Nintendo’s Wi-Fi connection took it to the next level, providing connectivity in retail stores for the Nintendo DS, but didn’t provide much differentiation for retailers. And while Apple provides free Wi-Fi in its stores, it instead partnered with Starbucks to offer a customized iTunes store home page that offered lists of recent songs for purchase playing in its coffee shops.
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Consumer Technology | Liz Cutting, Senior Imaging Analyst | 
January 11, 2012 12:53 pm | 
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