CES 2009 — GigaOM

CES 2009

Adobe will on Tuesday release developer betas of Flash Player 10.1 for the web and AIR 2 for the desktop. Both runtimes are to be released to the public in the oh-so-very narrow and specific time frame of “the first half of 2010.” Key to plans… Read More »

If you have been following my adventures with the Viliv S5 Premium UMPC then you are aware I have been so impressed with the little PC that I have ordered one for my own. I am getting a tremendous amount of good use out… Read More »

 
 

Day after CES closes, nobody here Read More »

Today is travel day as we leave the pretend world of Las Vegas and head back to the real world.  We’ll be offline and in the air for much of the day but meanwhile I’ve thrown together a bit of a wrapup of the big CES… Read More »

Today is a day to wind down from the CES 2009 grind and for me that means installing the newly released Windows 7 beta.  I got an install DVD from someone at the Tablet meetup yesterday so today I’m installing it under Parallels on the… Read More »

Long-time reader Hector Gomez drove hours to meet up at the tablet gathering in Vegas. Hector had some cool gear with him, the MSI Wind running Windows 7 and the sweet little Kojhinsha SC3. Thanks for coming out Hector! Read More »

http://www.youtube.com/v/gZH-0vAJ5ps&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01 We finally found the right time to get over to the Sony VAIO kiosk, so here’s a short, 11-minute preliminary hands on with the P. Very first, limited impressions: this is a well designed device. The P certainly doesn’t feel like 1.4-pounds when… Read More »

Tablet & Touch meetup in Vegas will start soon

One of the events held during the CES week each year that is our favorite is the Tablet PC meetup.  This year it’s being held in the CntrStg suite and you can attend with us as it’s being streamed live.  It starts at 3 PM Pacific… Read More »

http://www.youtube.com/v/94k1hWUfmFo&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01 We were exhausted from walking on day 2, so our daily wrap video didn’t happen until this morning. There were more MIDs, UMPCs and netbooks sighted yesterday. We also spent a good amount of time talking with AMD, who powers the HP dv2:… Read More »

Heavy traffic put Windows 7 beta download on hold yesterday, but we’re hearing reports that things are humming along nicely now in Redmond. Here’s the link in case you missed it: you can find both the 32- and 64-bit versions. Early reports… Read More »

The CES 2009 is still going although it’s obvious today that a lot of attendees have had enough and are not attending today.  Kevin and I will be seeing a few things today that we’ve got on our short list of things we must see first-hand. … Read More »

If you haven’t had enough of the Palm Pre just yet or want to see what we saw at the invite-only Press Event, today’s your lucky day. Palm is hosting a video recording of the event and the beauty of it is that you… Read More »

More Must Reads

I like this concept from Celio because it leverages the smartphone platform, and more importantly, your data. They showed me this working mock-up. Look close because the automobile dashboard is solely a representative picture. It’s the 7-inch touchscreen display that’s real. That screen is… Read More »

We heard that subsidized Dell netbooks were coming and now they’re here. For a limited time, anyway. Dell just announced that from now until the end of January, you can nab a Dell Mini 9  for $99 after a $350 rebate. Of… Read More »

Here at the Microsoft Windows Mobile booth. Where’s the flash? The cool new devices? Read More »

I spent some time at the Intel booth this morning at CES and was glad to see them with an entire display of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs).  Intel has been pushing MIDs for a while and it is good to see a fair number of units… Read More »

Yesterday AMD announced that it was building a specialty supercomputer to deliver gaming through a computing cloud. Aside from the coolness of being able to play your video games on an iPhone, pause them, and pick them up at home, the news bolsters the cloud… Read More »

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