Fletcher Heald will hold a webinar on the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Aereo decision (CED June 26 p1), the law firm said in a blog post Friday (http://bit.ly/1n4wkew). The webinar is set for Sept. 10 at 1 p.m. EDT, the firm said.

Bose’s OE2 corded headphones, in white, were the Amazon Deal of the Day Friday, selling for nearly half off at $79.96. Bose discontinued the black version, said Amazon. The OE2i phones, with a mic for the iPhone and iPad, were discounted by 56 percent, also to $79.96 at Amazon.

CEDIA will observe its 25th anniversary at its September Expo in Denver. The association plans an anniversary celebration as part of the Expo, giving special recognition to founding members, it said. CEDIA has grown “from just a small group of 50 visionaries to more than 3,500 professional member companies, representing 22,000 professionals,” said Don Gilpin, executive director.

Sprint launched another version of the HTC One Friday. The HTC One E8, available in white or gray, is offered with Sprint Easy Pay, which allows qualified customers to buy the phone for $0 down with 24 monthly payments of $20.84. Features include Android 4.4.2, a 5-inch display, 2.3 GHz processor, 13-megapixel front and 5-megapixel rear cameras, Wi-Fi Calling and HD Voice. The phone can be a 3G/4G hotspot, Sprint said.

The voluntary agreement two years ago between CE makers, the pay-TV industry and green advocates like the Natural Resources Defense Council on energy standards for set-top boxes (CED July 24/12 p6) has saved U.S. consumers around $168 million on energy bills and 842,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide, said NCTA in a blog post Thursday (http://bit.ly/1lyFTXV). The information on energy saved comes from an annual report (http://bit.ly/1tP3svy) on the impact of the agreement by an independent administrator hired by the agreement’s participants, said a CEA news release on the report. Under the agreement, 85 percent of set-tops bought by pay-TV providers in 2013 met the EPA’s Energy Star 3.0 efficiency levels, using 14 percent less energy than previous models, NCTA said. The agreement has also led to software updates being deployed to enable light sleep for set-tops already in homes, an auto power-down feature in 90 percent of direct broadcast satellite boxes and energy efficiency information being posted by pay-TV providers for all new boxes, NCTA said. The more efficient boxes “save consumers money on their electric bill, reduce pollution, and work even better than the old ones used to,” said Noah Horowitz, senior scientist at the NRDC.

Consumer Electronics Daily won’t be published Monday, Sept. 1 in observance of the federal Labor Day holiday. Our next issue will be dated Tuesday, Sept. 2.

Hisense is sponsoring Lotus F1 for Grand Prix races in Italy, the U.S. and Abu Dhabi through the rest of the year, with cars sporting the Hisense logo on the side pod and air box of the Lotus E22 race car, the companies said Thursday. Lan Lin, Hisense vice president, said the company plans to use “proven partnerships that can deliver” as a way to grow brand awareness globally. Sports marketing is key to Hisense’s worldwide brand awareness strategy, it said, saying the company also recently sponsored German football club, FC Schalke 04.

Seattle startup Stand For Stuff landed a U.S. patent (8,789,802) for an adjustable floor stand that makes any tablet useful for reading and watching movies while lying in bed or exercising, or for wheelchair users, the company said Thursday. The patent (http://1.usa.gov/1wJmCrl), issued July 29 and assigned to Stand For Stuff, lists three Seattle-area inventors and describes a “protective case” that enables a person who “does not want to or is physically unable to hold a tablet computing device to interact with an inserted tablet computing device.” One of the inventors, Marty Springer, devised the SwingHolder for his wife, who has difficulty holding things for a long period of time due to a medical condition, the company said: “Making use of his engineering background, Springer assembled a product that would allow her to read on her iPad comfortably for as long as she wanted.” The product sells for $199 at Amazon.

With its introduction Thursday of the Samsung Gear S “next generation smart wearable device,” Samsung is expanding “the smartphone experience to the wrist,” the company said (http://bit.ly/1C4GfKD). In wearables, it also marks Samsung’s return to its use of the Tizen platform. Last month, a DisplaySearch blogger complained that Samsung was sending mixed messages on its choice of operating systems for wearables, having alternated use of Tizen and Android Wear on previous introductions. However, Samsung defended its use of multiple operating systems in wearables because it has found consumers “care more about the user experience” than an OS preference (CED July 25 p7). With Thursday’s introduction of the Samsung Gear S, “people can seamlessly make and receive calls directly from their wrist, or get calls forwarded from their smartphones,” Samsung said. Its two-inch curved “Super AMOLED” display (360 x 480) lets users read messages and notifications “at a single glance” with features such as “conversation view” and “condensed font,” it said. Its “customizable screen options and changeable straps empower users to express their own taste and style,” Samsung said. The Gear S will debut globally in “phases” starting in October, Samsung said, pricing undisclosed.

The IEEE Standards Association plans an Internet of Things workshop Sept. 18-19 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, to “provide an open, engaging platform to discuss opportunities, impacts and challenges around the convergence” of IoT technologies, the group said Thursday (http://bit.ly/1pMY3oH). A “special focus” at the workshop will be on the need for “more interdisciplinary approaches to the design of products and services for IoT markets,” it said. “From smart cities to smart homes to eHealth to cleaner transportation, standardization in IoT will provide economic opportunity to these areas and many more by increasing interoperability and fueling the economy of scale,” it said. The group “is one of the driving forces behind IoT standardization and will continue to contribute to the advancing of IoT by participating and hosting of IoT workshops, events and projects,” it said.