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Category Archives: Tech History
Happy 100th Birthday, Consumer Technology Business
Celebrating the 100th birthday of the consumer technology industry with the story behind how and why our business came to be and of those responsible for creating it, in five parts: Part 1: The Wireless Age Part 2: A National Priority Part … Continue reading
Posted in Tech History, TWICE
Tagged 1920, Consumer electronics, consumer technology, Consumer Technology Association, CTA, history, KDKA, Pittsburgh, radio, RCA, tech history, Westinghouse, WIRELESS
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How the Consumer Technology Industry Was Born
What we now call the consumer technology industry was born November 30, 1920, when the first consumer electronics product, the two-piece RA-DA, the first commercially produced radio designed for the mass market, rolled off the Westinghouse assembly line in East … Continue reading
CTA Names 2020 Hall Of Fame Class, 3 Innovation Entrepreneurs
The engineer who designed the first consumer electronics product that birthed our industry a century ago, the two computer programmers who have been dubbed the “Fathers of the Internet,” the executive who energized Sony and Sirius XM satellite radio, and … Continue reading
Posted in Tech History, TWICE
Tagged 3D printing, autonomous vehicle, CTA, DirecTV, Frank Conrad, Hall of Fame, HDTV, internet, Living in Digital Times, Panasonic, radio, RCA, Re:3D, Robert Kahn, satellite radio, satellite TV, self-driving car, SiriusXM, Sony, TCP/IP, TouchPoint, Vint Cerf, Westinghouse
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5G’s Historically Bizarre Rollout
Technology rollouts are often messy. Multiple vendors propose competing (and often incompatible) variations in the hope of capturing the golden ticket to new market dominance. Entrenched interests campaign, lobby against or even legally threaten their eventual replacement. Technology misunderstanding or … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, cell/smartphones, Digital Tech Consulting, Tech History
Tagged 5G, AT&T, coronavirus, COVID-19, HSPA, Huawei, iPhone 12, LTE, mmWave, Sprint, sub-6GHz, T-Mobile, Verizon, WiMax
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Auto Tech Exhibits To Move To New LVCC West Hall For CES 2021
While CES 2020 has entered the history books, CES 2021 promises to make history. That’s because next year’s CES will now include the new West Hall, the behemoth construction this year’s show attendees saw rising majestically in what had been the parking … Continue reading
Posted in CES, Tech History, TWICE
Tagged CES, Elon Musk, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Convention Center, Loop, LVCC, McCarran Airport, Vegas Loop, West Hall
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‘The Current War’ Helps CTA Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Hall of Fame
Perhaps the most consequential period in technology history, the first format war that determined how the world would be powered, is lovingly portrayed in the new film, The Current War. The film depicts the business, technological and personality battles that … Continue reading
dCS Launches HiRes Audio Campaign With 1st Legends Award
Surrounded by his recording engineer peers, master mastering engineer and 11-time Grammy winner Bob Ludwig was presented the first dCS Legends award at an event Tuesday night during this week’s annual Audio Engineering Society confab in New York. Read the rest of … Continue reading
Flashback 1979: Sony’s Iconic Walkman Is Born
Forty years ago today Sony introduced a portable cassette player that would forever change the way the world experienced music on-the-go. That player, of course, is the iconic Walkman. Read the rest of this history story here at Sound & … Continue reading
Posted in ear/headphones, music players/speakers, Sound & Vision, Tech History
Tagged audio cassette, iPod, Masaru Ibuka, mix tape, MP3, Pressman, Sony, transistor radio, Walkman
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25 Years Ago Today: DirecTV Is Born
On a sweltering Friday morning, June 17, 1994, Lemoyne Martin strode past a queue of around 150 other potential buyers and a phalanx of media at Cowboy Maloney’s 1-55 North store. He handed over nearly $1,000 to tuxedo-clad salesman, Ty … Continue reading
Posted in Sound & Vision, Tech History, TV/4K/UHD/8K
Tagged DBS, DirecTV, DISH, satellite TV
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