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...

    Consumer confidence continued to fall last month, according to the latest findings from the Consumer Electronics Association. The CEA Index of Consumer Expectations (ICE), which measures consumer expectations about the broader economy, fell 2.7 points in February to 165.3. Consumer confidence in the overall economy declined for the second consecutive month. “Consumer sentiment slipped again in February for both the overall economy as well as consumers&rsquo...

Atlas-V rocket with the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft onboard. Image Courtesy NASA Goddard.  At CEA, we’re committed to growing the consumer electronics industry, which is why we are passionate about discovering and promoting creative and innovative new ideas and business practices. Each week, we will collect and share stories about innovation from across the Web: in the technology industry and beyond. What does innovation mean to you? NASA...

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...

  Susannah Fox - Medicine X Conversation from Larry Chu on Vimeo. The Internet has impacted the social aspects of our lives in immeasurable ways. In this video, Susannah Fox, the associate director of Digital Strategy at Pew Internet & American Life Project, discusses how U.S. adults are tracking their fitness, weight and health, and many are using various forms of technology to do so. Pew Internet’s study on health tracking found that 69 percent of adults track their...