Rebecca Day, Senior editor of Consumer Electronics Daily and contributing editor to Communications Daily and Washington Internet Daily, joined Warren Communications News in 2010. She’s a longtime CE industry veteran who has also written about consumer tech for Popular Mechanics, Residential Tech Today, CE Pro and others. You can follow Day on Instagram and Twitter: @rebday

After a 2020 back-to-school season disrupted by many closed classrooms due to COVID-19, 2021 isn’t shaping up to be any more normal, Nikki Baird, vice president-retail innovation at e-commerce shopping platform Aptos told us Friday. The National Retail Federation predicts…Subscribe to Read >>

TrendForce scaled back its annual smartphone production forecast for 2021 by 5 million units to 1.35 billion, citing the “intensifying COVID-19 pandemic in India and Vietnam in April and May.” Samsung, with manufacturing in Vietnam and India, had a 23.5%…Subscribe to Read >>

Roku partnered with NBCUniversal on a home screen experience designed to give customers “easy access” to the media company’s 5,500 hours of streaming coverage of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics via the Roku platform, the companies said Tuesday.Subscribe to Read >>

Always-on connections and smart home technology are delivering multiple and unexpected benefits for property managers, Vickie Rodgers, Cox Communities vice president, said at a virtual Parks Associates conference Wednesday. Parks data shows 70% of property managers have adopted smart home…Subscribe to Read >>

Summit Wireless CEO Brett Moyer pushed product breadth and a low barrier to entry for the company’s Wireless Speaker and Audio Association home theater technology, on a Thursday virtual investor road show. Summit hopes to broaden the customer base for…Subscribe to Read >>