Asian stocks rose Thursday, led by consumer electronics companies, after Sony forecast record profit and Hewlett-Packard predicted that sales would top $100 billion for the first time.

The nation’s top electronics retailer didn’t pick Silicon Valley, India or another high-tech hub to build its hospital for personal computers. It chose the Kentucky countryside, known more for race horses and bourbon distilleries than geeks and microprocessors.

Monte Carlo, (France), May 13: Major Indian consumer electronics companies are preparing to participate in a big way, surpassing the previous fair’s numbers, in the Internationale Funkausstellung 2007 (IFA 2007) later this year, the world’s largest consumer electronics fair in Berlin, Germany.

The largest German organiser of international events has confirmed that Dubai is their fastest growing market as they open six exhibitions targeting consumer electronics, professional lighting, kitchens and bathrooms, gardens, landscaping, hardware, tools and toys.

The very latest from the world of consumer electronics wowed thousands of visitors today, at the opening of the long-awaited Hometech Middle East 2007, the biggest trade show of its kind in the region.

Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) saw its revenues grow 36.1% on year to reach NT$84.53 billion (US$2.53 billion) in April amid a steady growth in orders for consumer electronics products, according to company spokesman Edmund Ding.

Jim Woods submits: The frequently fickle but always fascinating consumer electronics market requires constant vigilance if you want to keep up with all the latest action. Our most recent look at it was during the week of March 8-15, 2007, when we surveyed 3,266 Alliance members on their consumer electronics spending habits [… ]

Chains are running out of areas that can support big stores. The new big electronics store is going small. As consumer electronics get smaller and competition intensifies, retailers are reacting by shrinking their new stores.

NEW YORK, BUSINESS WIRE — In today’s consumer electronics products, hardware IC features play little role in protecting copyrighted content.

NEW YORK—-In today’s consumer electronics products, hardware IC features play little role in protecting copyrighted content. Popular digital rights management schemes that depend on secure software implementations such as Windows DRM, Fairplay, and AACS are routinely targeted and hacked.