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CEDIA Celebrates, Hoping You Don’t Notice That Little Spark Catching in the Corner

April 5, 2019 by Ted 5 Comments

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CEDIA’s new headquarters building in Fishers, Indiana

On March 28th CEDIA held a grand opening gala to celebrate their brand new $14 million glass and stone castle in Fishers, IN with about 250 of their closest friends. Depending on your viewpoint, this new facility is either a shining shrine to the strength of the custom integration tech association – or it is a monument to the monumental arrogance and ego of an association that is drifting further away from the very community it purports to serve.

But what many of these guests to the opening celebrations didn’t know was that, as they sipped champagne and oohed an ahhhd over the new gorgeous digs, there was yet another small member flare-up taking place in the background…with significant members expressing strong dissent on yet another Association initiative.

See more on this two worlds of CEDIA…

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Filed Under: Associations, Integrators, Management, News, Strategy Tagged With: CE Pro, CEDIA, CEDIA Expo, CEDIA Show, Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association, EH Publishing, Emerald Expositions, Expo

Tech Hit Hard in Latest Reputation Index Survey

April 4, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

Privacy Backlash Hits Google, Amazon & Facebook; What About LG, Samsung, Sony?

2019 RepTrak Ranking

In a new survey by Reputation Institute on corporate reputation, known as the 2019 RepTrak 100, we see wild swings in tech brands’ reputation with consumer privacy concerns finally appearing to take a major toll. With an overall all-category average reputation rating increase of +0.8 points, technology as a segment saw its collective reputation drop by 1 full point on the scale.

But the news wasn’t all bad – movie king Netflix, Inc. jumped 23 spots to come in at #1 for the first time in their history.

Read on to see how your favorite tech brand fared…

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Filed Under: Brands, Industry Trends, Manufacturers, News, Research, Strategy Tagged With: Amazon, Facebook, Google, Sony

Tech IPOs: Lyft, Uber, Pinterest… ComoAudio? Well, Sort Of…

March 29, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

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Como Audio, Tom DeVesto’s latest innovative venture and maker of fine streaming smart speaker systems, has launched a funding campaign on Wefunder, seeking to raise between $100,000 to $1,000,000 in equity investment. Investors on the Wefunder site can buy preferred shares of Como Audio stock priced at $2.50/share and own a piece of the company.

You too can become a Como Audio owner…

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Filed Under: Brands, Financial, Management, News, People, Specialty, Strategy Tagged With: Como Audio, smart speakers, Tom DeVesto

Japan Makes Coding Mandatory for All Students Starting in Elementary School

March 28, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

Soon, Japanese elementary schoolchildren like these will be taught computer programming

Like many countries, Japan is facing a dramatic shortage in the number of available high-tech workers. To address this situation, the country has decided to make computer programming classes mandatory for all students, starting in elementary school. Students will be mandated to study coding for their entire educational experience, every year from 5th grade through high school graduation in the hopes of filling the high-tech worker shortfall and catching up with the rest of the world.

See more on mandatory coding classes in Japan

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Filed Under: Asian Connection, News Tagged With: coding, computer programming, education

HiberSense Hires Channel Sales Manager

March 27, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

HiberSense, an emerging provider of smart residential and commercial climate solutions, announced this week that it has hired Chris Lawson as their new Channel Sales Manager for the US. Lawson will represent the line to residential and commercial integrators as well as HVAC contractors anywhere in the nation.

See more on HiberSense’s new sales manager…

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Filed Under: Brands, Manufacturers, News, People Tagged With: Bob Fields, Chris Lawson, HiberSense

Control4 Designates New Class of Pinnacle Dealers

March 27, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

Control4 logo, new

Control4 has recognized a new class of 67 dealers whose level of business with the brand has earned them the designation as a Pinnacle status partner. Pinnacle status, Control4 says, is a lifetime achievement that indicates their importance as a highly supportive partner.

See who made the grade as a Control4 Pinnacle dealer…

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Filed Under: Brands, Integrators, Manufacturers, News Tagged With: Control4, Pinnacle

First Time Ever: Asia Files Majority of Global Patents

March 21, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

Huawei Files the Most Individual Patents

Photo of a person trying a VR headset

Global competition continues to heat up and nowhere is that more obvious than a recent analysis from the World Intellectual Property Organization noting that in 2018 – for the first time in human history – the region of Asia filed the majority of all international patent applications. This new reality suggests that Asia is “rapidly increasing their presence in global innovation,” the report says.

And which company in particular was tops in the world for innovation? WIPO says it was Huawei Technologies, who filed the most patents from a single company in the world.

See more on change in global innovation…

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Filed Under: Asian Connection, Brands, Industry Trends, News, Tech Trends Tagged With: global, international, patents

Have You Heard – The Next Big Tech Hub is Canada, Eh?

March 21, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

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Toronto, Ontario CANADA – The next great Tech hub

American companies are increasingly moving tech jobs to Canada, where easier immigration policies make it much easier to hire foreign tech workers than it is here in the U.S. where the Administration has taken steps to make it more difficult. That mean these companies are expanding their operations in Canada…especially in their tech divisions…turning certain Canadian cities into the next great tech hubs in North America.

See more on Canada’s growing tech impact…

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Filed Under: Industry Trends, News, People, Tech Trends Tagged With: Canada, immigration

Apple’s Wireless AirPods Get a ‘Gen 2’ Upgrade

March 20, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

Photo of Apple's Generation 2 AirPods

Apple, Inc. announced today that it has upgraded its popular AirPods wireless headphones, with a new Generation 2 model featuring technology that offers more talk time, quicker connects, a hands-free ‘Hey Siri’ capability, and a new wireless charging case.

See more on the new Apple AirPods…

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Filed Under: Manufacturers, News, Products, Tech Trends Tagged With: Airpods, headphones, wireless

Shocking Results for Tech in New Brand Reputation Poll

March 7, 2019 by Ted Leave a Comment

A newly created poll by Axios and The Harris Poll reveals what Americans think of the reputation of the top 100 most visible companies in the U.S. Tech, as you might imagine, was well represented here, and this poll bared a difficult truth for many tech companies…their reputation is crashing.

See the surprising pluses & minuses for Tech companies…

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Filed Under: Brands, Consumer Trends, Industry Trends, News, Statistics Tagged With: Axios, brands, consumer, ratings, The Harris Poll

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