Another customer in the consumer electronics industry was about to launch a surprise digital audio player.
All of this happened at the largest trade show for the consumer electronics industry last week.
This rigidity has cost Sony, once the darling of the electronics industry, dearly.
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The U.S. consumer electronics industry is battling a behemoth, escalating and unsustainable problem: product returns.
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As a trade reporter, my beat for many years was the consumer electronics industry.
In the early 1990s, Samsung was a weak participant in segments of the electronics industry.
Trends in the electronics industry had a big impact on car colors over the past decade.
In sad contrast Sharp, like the rest of Japan's electronics industry, has gone blunt.
It seems like an eon ago, but the Japanese electronics industry used to rule the tech world.
The consumer electronics industry has a distinct advantage in innovation thanks to the nature of technological improvements.
In the face of continued high unemployment and sluggish economic growth, the consumer electronics industry is thriving.
Across Hollywood and the consumer electronics industry, 3-D products have been pushed as the next big thing.
Saving energy and reducing emissions are important goals for the consumer electronics industry as well as the state.
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Such invasions by firms from one part of the electronics industry into the markets of others will continue.
But the 3D waters are still muddy with confusion, which is something the consumer electronics industry needs to address.
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The global electronics industry continues to assess the damage to the supply chain.
This despite the slowdown in the electronics industry worldwide, which has subsequently recovered.
This scepticism, however, does not automatically mean that the consumer-electronics industry will win.
It has existed as long as there has been a consumer electronics industry.
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Through the Innovation Policy Summit track, CES highlights the most important policy concerns affecting the consumer electronics industry.
Just three decades later, its technology firms were obliterating America's consumer-electronics industry and enjoying a reputation for the highest quality.
It disregards the fact that the consumer electronics industry is already at the forefront of energy efficiency and sustainability.
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Dr van Dover thinks that the electronics industry's demands for new materials a dielectric here, a magnetic-recording medium there are fairly few.
For tantalum this is all but assured as there are very few smelters and they all supply the electronics industry.
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But with some of the largest players in today's consumer electronics industry shunning CES, the trade show's impact may be waning.
The loophole primarily concerns purchases of smartphones, which Best Buy generally sells at a subsidized price, like much of the electronics industry.
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If you think they are, then just look at the trends in the consumer electronics industry with the best example being HDTVs.
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