Being successful in sales, like life, requires discipline and strong principles. Recently, Dan Cole, vice president of business development at CEA, wrote about his "10 commandments for selling" for EXPO magazine. He manages sales for the International CES, as well as CEA. His commandments include listening with empathy and striving to always be prepared: Some salespeople like to wing it. Not so fast. There is nothing more insulting to a prospect than demonstrating...

Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer Inc., last week wrote for AllThingsD about the untapped power of computers to change the field of education. The emergence of new technologies, like video-conferencing, presents a compelling question, writes Wozniak, who is a passionate supporter of innovation in education: I have always also wondered: What if a computer could be a teacher? The ability to have one-on-one interaction with dynamically aware computers could completely...

The CEA Foundation was launched in 2012 during CE Week in New York. Since then CEA has been busy building the foundation and accomplishing our mission of linking seniors and people with disabilities with technologies to enhance their lives.  Here are our top five accomplishments in our first year. Support for the Selfhelp Community Services Virtual Senior Center. Our first grant went to Selfhelp Community Services in order to expand their reach to homebound seniors in New...

iTunes, the world’s largest music retailer, turns 10 this week. i3, CEA's flagship publication, explores how it changed the audio industry.

This week, CEA released the second annual report of our industry’s eCycling Leadership Initiative, which measures and promotes responsible recycling nationally. More than 585 million pounds of electronics were responsibly recycled in 2012 by CE companies, which is an increase of 27 percent over 2011 (460 million pounds), and a total increase of 95 percent since 2010 (300 million pounds). What’s more, as of April 2013, there are now more than 8,000 responsible recycling...