CEA has released consumer electronics sales and forecasts 2003-2008. For engineers to entrepreneurs, it covers sales, forecasts, consumer research and economic trends. The nonmembers can purchase the study from $999.

Meanwhile Midem, Digital Music Forum East (Feb 26-27), Digital Hollywood (Oct 27-30), Billboard, Sandbox Summit members to phone companies are all convinced along with the banks that you will soon be able to show pictures, talk about bank accounts, watch videos, and collaborate with others as well as songwrite all on the go.

Words like "target", "platform" have migrated into the news. Web 2.0 has terrific resources and convenience for those who want to use it. CES has speaker docks from Vestalife's Butterfly to Sennheiser's MX-W1 stereo sound high end ear phones for wireless users who need integrated charging capacity to multi-country adaptors.

It's an international gear show starting today in Anaheim and a smaller, hand held world for video cameras to your music library. (HD radio is proprietary to iBiquity Digital Corp and working with NPR)

Got to www.ebrain.org to find it.   Watch from innovation from storage to ram, to strings to peripherals in Anaheim.  It will be great to see how these new speeds, stands, creativity, and functions impact players, sound engineering, and recording.