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Latest gadgets: the future starts here
Lots of the big tech companies on show at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas have already unveiled details of some of their forthcoming gadgets in anticipation of the start of the CES. Las Vegas gambles on cool gadgetsEvolution, not revolution at the Consumer Electronics ShowHD DVD group cancels Las Vegas launchSanyo has launched a great-looking piece of kit, the world's smallest and lightest full high-definition camcorder. The Xacti HD1000 records in full 1080i HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) at 60 frames per second. It has 10x optical zoom and also doubles as a four megapixel camera capable of taking still images. Weighing in at 269g with a 2.7in widescreen display for composing shots, you can record up to five hours of standard TV on an 8GB memory card, or 85 minutes of HD television.
On radio: It's always good news
It takes two weeks of watching Christmas television to make a person wonder why, old movies apart, anyone bothers with it. Yes, there was Cranford and that was marvellous and everyone watched it and everyone loved it, but that was before Christmas and, anyway, wasn't it a fluke? It must have been because what we got for Christmas was a cardboard Oliver Twist and a polystyrene Sense and Sensibility, and that was the good stuff. .
Celebrity endorsements pay off as supermarkets lift ad spending
The increased spend seems to have paid off. At the end of last month, shares in Wm Morrison jumped as the company reported a 4.6 per cent increase in sales in the 14 weeks to November. Tesco increased its advertising spend by almost £4 million to £71.2 million, as Britain’s largest supermarket chain brought in the Spice Girls for a television campaign. The group was the country’s tenth biggest advertiser in the period. .
Best Buy Fiscal Q3 Earnings Increased 79%
(TWICE) _ MINNEAPOLIS " Strong sales, a more rational promotional environment and labor productivity gains helped Best Buy boost its operating income 79 percent to $351 million for its fiscal third quarter, ended Dec. 1. Net revenue rose almost 15 percent. Within the company's domestic segment, comprised of U.S. Best Buy, U.S. Geek Squad, Magnolia Audio Video and Pacific Sales operations, net revenue grew nearly 15 percent to $8.2 billion thanks to the addition of 96 new stores and a same-store sales gain of 6.1 percent, which included the benefit of an extra post-Thanksgiving shopping week. "We are very encouraged by the strengthening we're seeing in our customer relationships as well as our solid financial performance," said Brad Anderson, Best Buy's vice chairman and CEO.
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