Following this week’s Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona? Find out what leaders from some of the top mobile tech companies will discuss at this year’s event and where CEA stands on the hot button topic of spectrum, on i3 online, CEA’s Web companion to its flagship i3 magazine, which features in-depth analysis of CE industry and policy issues. “CEA believes that spectrum is the ‘oxygen of innovation,’ and supports voluntary incentive...

Skilled immigration reform is a major policy issue CEA is working with its partners and elected officials to advance in 2013. CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro shared how we can make it happen in an editorial published in the The Washington Times this week. Encouraging innovation through skilled immigration is a no-brainer. The reality is many immigrants come to the United States as students and plan to start companies after graduation. America’s restrictive immigration...

Guest Post by Neal Goldberg, National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and Doug Johnson, Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) The unprecedented, voluntary Set-Top Box Energy Conservation Agreement that NCTA and CEA announced last December was just the first step in the multichannel video industry’s effort to implement significant commitments that will lead to annual savings of $1.5 billion for American consumers. One outcome of the agreement was the...

CEA President and CEO Gary Shapiro has seen many achievements during his 30 years with CEA, most notably leading the industry in its successful HDTV transition. He is a charter inductee to the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and a member of the Boards of Directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and the Economic Club of Washington.  He sits on the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy, and he has on numerous...

With Congress back in session in Washington, the Consumer Electronics Association is tracking a host of issues that are vitally important to the future growth of our economy, as well as growth of the consumer electronics industry. At the 2013 International CES, we held a series of discussions to highlight and debate some of our most pressing policy issues: strategic immigration, copyright, e-waste, the impact of mobile technology on our economy and more. Watch those sessions now for...