OTC Hearing Aids: Why So Slow?

Ended soon Half a year has passed since over the counter hearing aids became available for sale. Where do things stand today? Not as far along as we’d have expected for a market estimated at 25 million customers in the U.S. alone. Is this category simply slow out of the gate or are there problems…

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Bluesalve Partners Strengthens Team With Noted Industry Veterans

Ended soon Ashburn, VA, April 17, 2023 - Bluesalve partners today announced that consumer technology veterans Rich Bira and Ryan Tykwinski have joined the firm. The prominent consulting group has recently grown by double digits in serving the challenging IoT and smart home markets. The additional team members’ unique skills will increase bluesalve’s capacity to deliver…

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Bluesalve at ISC West 2023

Ended soon I have not seen ISC West’s official attendance figures as I write this, but my guess is that the words “record breaking” will be part of that announcement. From the perspective of both an attendee and a person who invested a significant number of hours working an exhibitor booth (our client DEN Smart…

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Bluesalve at TecHome Builder Summit 2023

Ended soon The TecHome Builder Summit is an annual event that brings together builders and technology companies to share and learn best practices for integrating technology into their customer’s homes. It focuses on opportunities for builders and multifamily companies to make tech a win-win-win for homebuyers/residents, builders/multifamily companies and their vendor / trade partners.  This…

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What (I Hope) We Learned About the Future at CES 2023

Ended soon I have long maintained that one should never underestimate the power of a random encounter in a trade show aisle. Humans are wired for interaction, and it was great to be back at a live show with a big crowd to experience the universe of consumer technology. Following 2021’s interruption and last year’s…

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NETGEAR

Ended soon NETGEAR Case Study Expanding Channel Extensions NETGEAR® (NASDAQ: NTGR) has pioneered advanced networking technologies for homes, businesses and service providers around the world since 1996, and leads the industry with a broad range of award-winning products. The company is dedicated to delivering innovative and advanced connected solutions ranging from mobile and cloud-based services…

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Caster and bluesalve partners to Offer Full-Service Technology Consulting Services

Ended soon Contact: Caster Communications, Inc. at 401.792.7080 Newport, RI and Ashburn, VA – January 3, 2023 – Caster Communications, Inc., and bluesalve partners, LLC have partnered to elevate and streamline end-to-end technology consulting services from the foundry to the frontline. Targeted at companies developing hardware and software for IoT, XR, AI, custom and consumer electronics, enterprise,…

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Rolling Into CES 2023: Meet a Few of Our Clients

Ended soon As we head into 2023, the new year begins, as always, with our favorite trade event, the annual Consumer Electronics Show. This year, we’re pleased to be helping some of the most forward-thinking companies in our industry present technologies and solutions that we believe are real difference makers. Here are just a few…

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Brand: Anchor of the New Omnichannel

Ended soon Over the past several years, tech retailing has undergone a dizzying course of changes. Just when pundits were finally getting tired of reporting a retailpocalypse, COVID came around to wreak additional havoc on brick and mortar – while ringing up record online sales of CE products for a nation working and playing from…

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Year Zero: Moving Forward With Matter

Ended soon This month’s launch event for the Matter interoperability standard was an undeniable high point in the nearly 50-year history of the smart home. Through the decades, we’ve seen plenty of smart technologies come and go, so some skepticism about Matter is probably inevitable. It’s also a mistake. We came back from Amsterdam feeling…

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