Consumer Electronics Industry

"AVATAR" COUNTDOWN: 4 DAYS We're code blue here at Hero Complex as we go into the final days of our "30 Days of Avatar" countdown. Today we talk to Jason Horowitz, the marketing director for Mattel, whose company is taking......

Censorship Reverberations The action of Principal Walter Larsh of Venice High School in banning "The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse" from an 11th grade English classroom is reverberating among teachers. The book, available at drugstores and...

After the coffee. Before deciding if it's too soon to ask out Reese Witherspoon. Admit it, you listen to weenie rock. The new electronic device Arbitron introduced to measure radio habits and eventually replace diaries has shown some interesting results.....

After the coffee. Before guessing how much "Avatar" will take in this weekend. Deja vu all over again. The Screen Actors Guild nominations are out this morning, and like the Golden Globes, the big nominees were "Up in the Air,"......

Here's your thirsty-Thursday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: --This is Free Shipping Day, with about 740 retailers saying that if you buy something online today, you'll pay no shipping costs. That's pretty cool, of course. But this......

Are broadcasters getting too brash in their push to get cable operators to pay big bucks to carry their television stations? That's what one industry analyst is wondering. In his Dec. 18 report (registration required) on the heated retransmission consent....

Not so long ago, getting three TV stations in the car seemed like a breakthrough ??? and if you have kids, it was. Through Sirius??? satellite TV offering, you could watch Nickelodeon, Disney and Cartoon Network in several Chrysler vehicles.......

After the coffee. Before bargain hunting for Super Bowl spots. Snow slows "Avatar." James Cameron's "Avatar" opened to strong $73-million box office domestically, which would have been bigger if not for massive snowstorms in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast...

Robert Lloyd recently interviewed "Doctor Who" star David Tennant for a lengthy piece in the Los Angeles Times but there still wasn't enough room for all of the good stuff that came out of the lively conversation. So, Lloyd has......

There's no point pretending that sales taxes don't figure into a consumer's decision about where to take his or her custom. The bigger the item the more important the sales tax rate. On a $25 hardcover, the difference between a......

Asian American hip-hop hasn't received quite the props that it deserves. Far East Movement has come along to change all of that. Few local venues are tougher to pack for an up-and-coming artist than the Art Deco digs of the......

As the holiday season unfolds, our thoughts on The Ticket turn to working not quite so hard for a few days. So we are re-publishing some of our favorite or most-read items from 2009. This item originally appeared on March......