Gary Shapiro
Gary Shapiro
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, which represents more than 2,400 tech companies and owns and produces CES. Shapiro authored of the New York Times best-selling book s Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World’s Most Successful Businesses and The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream. Through these books, media interviews, and hundreds of opinion pieces in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington...
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While home entertainment continues to be an important segment of the consumer electronics industry, home information has become the largest and fastest growing product group.
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Sales exceeded our expectations in 2005, totaling $125.9 billion, and we're forecasting 8 per cent growth in 2006. Consumer electronics sales are consistently growing, breaking records every year, because our industry is constantly changing to provide products that consumers love and can't live without. I cannot wait to see the thousands of new products unveiled this week at the International CES that will continue to grow this amazing industry.
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Personal computers are wonderful products, and they'll be very successful for a long time. But computers are $1,000-plus items, and there's cheaper ways of getting to (the Internet).
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Sony is one of the largest and most influential consumer electronics manufacturers and entertainment companies in the world, with a broad range of quality products, ... For the sixth year in a row in the annual Harris poll, consumers rated Sony as America 's number one brand. As the newly installed global head of Sony, Howard is a natural choice for the 2006 International CES keynote program and we are thrilled to announce his participation.
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As soon as the broadcast signal is out there, we will start selling those HDTV sets.
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Today's radios come in all shapes and sizes and are used in the home, car, office and on the go. The largest change is the wealth of content and content formats now driving the development of radio technology.
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Since its creation in 1895, radio has continued to re-invent itself to stay current.
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With his entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to innovation, Page is a natural fit for CES.
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This year 2006 will be the year of high-definition TV.
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This was an extraordinarily strong quarter, and it was a holiday season that was phenomenally focused on electronics.
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Consumer electronics sales are consistently growing, breaking records every year, because our industry is constantly changing to provide products that consumers love and can't live without.
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The numbers say it all. The consumer electronics industry is hot.
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The products have pretty much converged together. You are seeing simplicity built more into computers, and more memory built in TVs -- so that the clean division between the two doesn't exist anymore.
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With these agreements, many more consumers will soon be able to access the wonders of digital television through cable.