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Study: 30 Percent of Flyers Have Left on their Electronic Devices

Aggregated Content — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:30:34 +0000

By Stephen Silver Ever reach into your pocket at the end of a long flight to turn on your phone, only to realize it was on all along? You’re not alone. A study released Thursday found that 30 percent of U.S. airplane passengers have accidentally left a personal electronic device turned on while on a [...]

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Forgot to Turn off your Kindle in flight? You’re not alone!

Juli Monroe — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:47:29 +0000

The Consumer Electronics Association released some interesting data yesterday about electronic devices on planes. • Ninety-nine percent of flyers bring a portable electronic device on a flight with them. That’s a lot of gadgets! • Thirty percent of them have forgotten to turn off a device at some time. Whoops! Another interesting breakdown is this: The study [...]

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The CEA’s Gary Shapiro to host a Reddit AMA tomorrow

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:07:22 +0000

The modern phenomenon known as the Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session is perhaps a perfect example of the sort of knowledge acquisition that is only possible because of the Internet. But you know that already. Here’s something you probably don’t know: A gentleman by the name of Gary Shapiro will be hosting a Reddit [...]

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TeleRead Goes to Vegas

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 04:48:41 +0000

Those of you who read TeleRead regularly probably noticed that our coverage was a little bit thin last week … but not to worry! I’ve got an alibi: I was in Las Vegas since last Sunday, covering the 2013 International CES for NAPCO—my employer, and TeleRead’s parent company. This was my first-ever trip to CES, [...]

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CEA: Tablet ownership in the U.S. has doubled in one year

Aggregated Content — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:30:02 +0000

By Stephen Silver | for Dealerscope.com The ownership rate of tablet computers in the U.S. has reached 31 percent as of last month, more than doubling the number for this time last year. That’s according to the latest version of the Consumer Electronics Association’s tablet rankings. The Consumer Outlook on Tablets: Q4 2012 found that two [...]

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Some info from the Consumer Electronics Association on ereaders and tablets

Paul Biba — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:52:41 +0000

CEA, the Consumer Electronics Association, is the trade organization that puts on CES each year. CEA is not too well known to consumers, but it is one of the largest trade associations and does all the stuff that trade associations do, including engage in economic analysis. Each year at this time CEA invites the press [...]

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