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CES 2007

Taglocity 2.0: A Better Outlook

Sometimes Outlook is a necessary evil. Personally I prefer Thunderbird if I’m going to be using a desktop client, because it’s less cluttered, not to mention free. Still, when I’m at the office working as a contractor for a professional services firm, Outlook 2007 … Read More »

Bring Spotlight To The Cloud With Precipitate

If you are a heavy user of either Google Bookmarks or Google Docs, you now have a way of searching your content via the OS X built-in Spotlight tool. Written by Stuart Morgan and available for free (open source, in fact!), this simple application makes … Read More »

 
 

Firefox 3.0.2 Fixes Security Issues & OS X Bugs

The Mozilla crew have updated Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 to address security vulnerabilities and (in the case of version 3) bugs & usability issues, including fixes for Mac-specific bugs. Firefox 3 had five security issues including two critical ones that could lead to … Read More »

Vid-Biz: ThePlatform, Funding, ZVUE

ThePlatform to Deliver Video for Three Major Cable Cos.; Comcast-owned video platform to provide video to web sites from Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and Cox Communications. (The Wall Street Journal) Agent Video Intelligence and MyToons Get Funding; video surveillance company receives $9 million Series B round … Read More »

Our first NewTeeVee Pier Screening of the year is coming up soon (be sure to get your free ticket before they run out!), and we’ve assembled a great panel of judges for the event. The theme of the night is “pilots,” as in pilot … Read More »

Lunch at Pieros- gadgets on the way stay tuned

I’m boarding my plane for CES in a few short minutes, but can’t get one particular thought out of my mind. Last year, Apple completely deflated the CES balloon with … Read More »

CNET has the ultra-portables

One of the most popular categories of technology at the CES each year is the ultra-portable device category and this year was no exception. OQO announced it’s Model 02 at CES and they were everywhere, the SX-Gen from Seamless Internet was all over the place, Samsung … Read More »

CES 2007 impressions and gear review

The big show (CES 2007) has come and gone and I am back home and I have been giving a lot of thought to the gear I took to the show and how it performed in the field.  It is important to realize that this show … Read More »

What happens in CES stays in Vegas

Earlier this morning an email from Arnie Berman, a good friend of ours, and chief technology analyst with investment house Cowen & Company had me cracking up. He used the headline “CES ’07: What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas” to describe the big show, which … Read More »

Tablet Kiosk’s new Sahara Slate PCs

We met over lunch with the Tablet Kiosk folks yesterday and they’ve got some exciting news. Availability of their new Sahara line of slate PCs is just weeks away and … Read More »

Active vs. touch: what I learned at CES

You know what I learned the most about at CES this week? It wasn’t about a new UMPC, a hot new handheld nor was it about some software. What I … Read More »

More Must Reads

At the Bill Gates keynote, we got first word of the new Windows Home Server that HP will first offer; more OEMs will follow. I chatted with a Microsoftie on the floor about the WHS because as much as I like the product … Read More »

James is in the air returning home and I think 90% of the show is too. Hopefully, they’re not all on the same plane. Since I’ve got the day to myself, … Read More »

CES is winding down — I’m looking forward to getting some sleep (kicking it at Bloghaus tended to go a bit late . . . OK way late) and getting out of Vegas. There’s only so many days of smoky casinos, bad carpeting and … Read More »

It’s clear by the new Origami Experience that the Microsoft team does listen to user feedback. We were floored when we got the above picture from Sears Young on … Read More »

Hey, maybe everyone else will too based on the conversation we had at the S-XGen booth. We flipped, folded and even fondled the unique Windows Mobile … Read More »

Kevin and I had a fantastic day today between cruising the CES show floor, attending Lunch@Pieros and seeing some cool gadgets, appearing on KPRC 950 Houston talk radio with Michael Garfield, the HighTech Texan, attending the Tablet PC meetup where over 100 people converged … Read More »

This is going to sound odd, but I have to repeat something James said earlier tonight: "The best software I’ve seen at CES is the new Origami Experience … Read More »

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves’ keynote at CES managed to squeeze in more Web 2.0 buzz words, and viral videos references than I’ve heard all week — the Numa Numa kid, diet coke and mentos, Second Life, YouTube, wikis, avatars, mashups. Well, CBS has been proactive … Read More »

This whole iPhone thing is very confusing. How will Cisco Systems and Apple reconcile the brand? This was a question that was also on the minds of those who were in attendance at the Cisco Q&A for press at 11:30, right after the John Chambers keynote … Read More »

Steve Jobs is a great storyteller. If he were a fiction writer, he would stand shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Tom Clancy and John Grisham. Mesmerizing in prose, master of the climax. Today’s performance at the Macworld Keynote was no different. We hyper clicked, … Read More »

Wow, there’s literally a radio show going on right behind me in this room; Michael Garfield is interviewing someone from Palm as I quietly blog this. Just before meeting James here at … Read More »

A friend of ours who slaves for a big hedge fund called and point out the really low volume of trading (lower than Friday) on both NYSE and NASDAQ. Maybe its because Wall Street doesn’t give a damn about CES? Motorola and Nokia outlined their grand … Read More »

The madhouse that is the opening day of CES is over and one thing is clear – CES has become more and more about mobile devices. Yeah, it’s always been a well tread topic at the show, but as faster and bigger wireless networks come online … Read More »

Last night we gave you a rundown on who we rubbed shoulders with; after that and during the day today we saw more great folks, many of which I’ve been wanting to meet in person for some time. It’s amazing that in this sea of people … Read More »

OK, maybe not the biggest ad ever, but the biggest ad I’ve seen here at CES so far. Microsoft is pulling out all the stops for Vista this year; as I was walking … Read More »

We hit up the HP booth and found this demo unit of the new HP tablet chained to a table. Of course, we had to play with it, as evidenced … Read More »

…and all we got was this lousy picture. Seriously, James and I hit up the UTStarcom booth early today to see some of the new phones we’ve been hearing about, but … Read More »

Seldom has a company gotten more ink for delivering so little as OQO, a San Francisco start-up that is building an ultra-ultra portable PC that is increasingly becoming pointless. “Our main goal is to reinvent the PC in a pocketable form,” Jory Bell, Oqo co-founder … Read More »

Like clockwork, every twelve months Bill Gates gets up on stage and delivers a keynote at the CES, outlining his vision of the future, demoing products and PowerPoint-ing his way through a wide array of products. He takes a few well deserved swipes at His Jobsness. … Read More »

Technically, it’s not day 2 of the CES but day 2 of my own trip here to Las Vegas to attend the biggest consumer electronics show in the world.  I have spent the past 2 days attending the Microsoft Vista RTM Lab which has shown … Read More »

Verizon herded a group of press into the Palms this afternoon to talk about its mobile and broadband-based TV strategy, which it has been spending billions on to compete with cable and the other phone companies on the video front. True to speculation, Verizon Wireless announced some … Read More »

We’re seated for the Gates keynote; not sure if we’ll be able to blog during this. As big as CES is (140,000 folks expected), we’re already running into folks we know. … Read More »

I woke at 5 am (Eastern time) and hit the road 30 minutes after that. After 6.5 hours on a plane, a hairy taxi ride, quick hotel check-in and badge pickup, I finally hoofed it down the strip to the Venetian for the Bill … Read More »

Someone at NetGear must get a raise for planning the first press conference of Day One of CES, there by ensuring maximum impact for somewhat marginal product releases, a few upgrades and one meaningful product – Digital Entertainer HD – that would become … Read More »

CES 2007: A casino conference room full of pale gadget fan-boy bloggers, doe-eyed PR reps, and pre-market electronics, means one thing — I’m in Vegas for the next few days for, what else, CES. The desert is cold, and Barry Manilow’s face is everywhere. I … Read More »

Friday afternoon at Sling Media’s HQ in San Mateo, we got a look at a prototype for one of the first entrants in the bring-Internet-video-to-the-TV race: The SlingCatcher, a sort of Slingbox-in-reverse that should hit the retail shelves sometime this summer, priced at $200 or … Read More »

CES 2007, Las Vegas: First Modeo gave us details of its mobile TV launch at CES, then Samsung said it is working on its own mobile TV technology, now reports are saying Verizon Wireless and Qualcomm will announce the launch … Read More »

Well, I am now in Las Vegas for the CES 2007 and will be blogging about fun stuff as I run across it.  The show doesn’t start until Monday morning but I will be attending Bill Gates’ keynote address on Sunday night.  I came out early … Read More »

As if there weren’t enough mobile TV standards waiting in the wings, Samsung is planning to announce another mobile TV broadcast technology at CES called Advanced-Vestigial Side-Band, that will use digital signals from local TV broadcasters. The Wall Street Journal has some details, and … Read More »

Modeo, the mobile TV company owned by Crown Castle, plans to announce on Monday that its service is live in New York city, in what the company is calling a ‘beta commercial launch.’ There’s a bit of hand waving involved, as the beta service is … Read More »

Yesterday it was an auto-WiFi startup using pre-CES week to get some ink. Today it’s auto navigation startup Dash Navigation‘s turn to try to get some pre CES-juice by announcing a partnership with Yahoo for local search for its Internet-connected service. … Read More »

Belkin’s cable-free UWB hub has been ‘almost to the market’ for the better part of a year now. Belkin even put out a release in December that said it would be available mid-December. Now Belkin says in an email that the product will be … Read More »

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