Apple’s iStuff launch events with Steve Jobs grew to resemble religious revival meetings, with ecstatic applause and whoops for every new feature. Early Microsoft launches with Bill Gates ‘live, in person’ were a bit like that, too.

My current print edition of Knightline mentions that it is five years since the death of Mike Peters.

I am writing this blog on my way home from the successful Retra conference at Gateshead. President Andrew O'Gorman and the whole Retra team are to be congratulated on organising a very impressive conference.

Brian J. Dunn, the chief executive of Best Buy, the world’s largest electronic retailer, has resigned while under investigation with regard to his “personal behaviour.”

For the past 20 years, Best Buy has operated a “big box” strategy with huge stores in more than 1,000 locations all over America. 

For years and years, I have been writing stories about “Spikey” in Knightline in ERT magazine.

For the past three years, I have been mentioning in my Knightline column that George Mead of LG has been posting excellent and informative videos from CES in Las Vegas and from Korea.

Greetings from Las Vegas. Well, I’ve had plenty of time to wander around CES, so I thought I’d share some of my initial thoughts on the show with you.

THE UK’s Advertising Standards Authority, the quasi-official body tasked with keeping adverts “legal, decent, honest and truthful” is convening a full council meeting this month to try to make a final decision on Samsung’s complaint against adverts for passive 3D TV run by LG Electronics in early July.

It’s that time of year again, folks, when the great and good of the consumer electronics industry jet off to Las Vegas for the annual tech fest that is CES (January 10-13).

THE UK’s Advertising Standards Authority, the quasi-official body tasked with keeping adverts “legal, decent, honest and truthful” is convening a full council meeting this month to try to make a final decision on Samsung’s complaint against adverts for passive 3D TV run by LG Electronics in early July.

Products and services are “soft launched” to save corporate face when they are not really ready for launch, but a competitor has got in ahead. UltraViolet, the much-vaunted, long-awaited, still-unproven, new standard for movie downloading and “digital locker” cloud storage to rival tried and tested iTunes, is now soft-launching on Boxing Day.

If you are planning to sell Nokia’s new flagship smart phone, the Lumia 800, be prepared to do some hefty homework.