The global demand for consumer technology is helping to change consumer "tastes and preferences," wrote Shawn DuBravac, CEA's chief economist and senior director of research. DuBravac, who discusses a wide range of technology and economic issues on his blog, writes that to succeed today, new products must be designed with the global market in mind. The world is truly becoming flat when it comes to consumer tech and that has had (and is having) profound ramifications...

This Earth Day, CEA is celebrating by highlighting some of our greenest fun facts from all of our initiatives and events.  We will be sending you on an environmentally friendly Earth Day scavenger hunt that you can participate in right from your desk, living room, or even while you’re on the go. Follow us on Twitter, @CEA, on Monday, April 22, for your clues and instructions.  We will be directing you to all of our Web properties to collect facts about how CEA and...

  Earlier this week, Dock-n-Lock, whose flagship product the Surge’ON™ Safe Driving System, exhibited at CES on the Hill in Washington, D.C., an event sponsored by CEA. The Innovation Movement caught up with Jeff Pothul, the company's COO, to discuss startup life and the future of automotive technology. I define innovation as every new idea that takes us one step closer to an answer. Everything from medical innovations to cure illness and disease to the...

New research from CEA shows the overall growth of the home technology market remained consistent from 2011 to 2012: Technology installations in new homes reached or exceeded 2008 levels, providing more evidence that the market for built-in home technologies is well on the road to recovery. Structured wiring remains the most common installed technology (70 percent), followed by monitored security (44 percent) and home theater pre-wire systems (27 percent). “These installed...

For over seven years, Twitter has been telling us what is trending in fashion, sports, headline news and more. With the launch of their Twitter #music app, Twitter can now interactively let you know what is trending in music. Twitter’s blog announced that the new app will use “Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists.” App users can listen to iTunes previews right from the app or they can use their...