Consumer Electronics Industry

DivX, best known for its popular digital video file format, is making another attempt to extend its reach into video services. At the Consumer Electronics Show today, the company is announcing DivX TV, a software platform for streaming video from the...

After the coffee. Before deciding you're not all that excited about the Google phone. 3-D TV! Ready to sit at home and wear goofy glasses while watching your $3,000 television set? The cable industry thinks you are. Although there are......

Microsoft tonight announced it would start shipping its Natal gesture and voice controller for the Xbox 360 game console in time for the Christmas holiday shopping season. Natal, named after a Brazilian city, lets players yell, jump, kick or wave their...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked off CES with a keynote demonstrating a slew of devices that don't require keyboards....

DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg wears 3-D glasses during a Samsung media event at the Consumer Electronics Show at the Venetian in Las Vegas, Nev. Dreamworks, Technicolor and Samsung announced they had formed a partnership to offer 3-D in-home...

Orange County prosecutors have charged three Los Angeles residents with burglary and grand theft in connection with 28 cases in which thieves broke into vehicles and stole computers from customers who had visited Apple retail stores. Manhattan Beach...

Connected TVs are again one of the main stories at the Consumer Electronics Show, increasing the pace significantly from last year's gingerly steps. Yet one of the stars of the 2009 show, Yahoo's Connected TV initiative, has been outshone by the likes...

After the coffee. Before deciding if it'll be Alabama or Texas. (Hint: Texas) Warner Bros. wants you to wait. Hoping to boost DVD sales, Warner Bros. struck a deal with Netflix in which the online-DVD-rental powerhouse will agree to wait......

A group of thieves has been taking a big bite out of Apple Store customers by purloining computers in more than 100 "follow away" burglaries across the region, authorities said. Last month, the Orange County district attorney's office charged three......

The stampede toward 3-D may be the headline of this year's Consumer Electronics Show, but announcements about apps have provided a seemingly relentless drumbeat. Apps on TV, apps in cars, apps in your pocket. ... Anyway, my choice as the show's official...

You can almost hear the other smart phones wailing: Marsha, Marsha, Marsha! Although the devices such as BlackBerry and Android phones have a decent and growing user base, in terms of accessories, the rest mostly rank as Jans and Cindys. Here's enough...

In case anyone missed Walt Disney Co.'s eagerness to embrace new technology, that focus was on full display at today's opening of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Call it a C-suite entourage. Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger was......