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Apple at CES? Not According to CES.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

In a blog post reporting on a journalists’ dinner with Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Electronics Association, the Wall Street Journal’s Ben Charny reports that that Apple plans to attend the Consumer Electronics Show next January for “the first time in memory.” Big news! Except, as former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block says, Shapiro said [...]

CES Gets Small

Monday, January 12, 2009

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Over at VentureBeat, Dean Takahashi is reporting that this year’s Consumer Electronics Show drew 110,000 employees, down 22 percent from last year’s event. The official, audited attendance figures won’t arrive for a few months, but unless they’re sharply higher it looks like this may have been the smallest CES in a decade or more. For [...]

Another Day, Another Keynote: Live Coverage of Steve Ballmer at CES

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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I’m liveblogging as Steve Ballmer does the Consumer Electronics Show keynote. C’mon and join me….

Dueling Keynotes: Phil Schiller at Macworld Expo vs. Steve Ballmer at CES

Saturday, January 3, 2009

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(if you came here looking for our live coverage of the Macworld Expo 2009 keynote, head over here.) Next week will see two tech trade show presentations by guys who are following very tough acts: Phil Schiller’s first (and last) Macworld Expo San Francisco keynote and Steve Ballmer’s first (and probably not last) Consumer Electronics Show [...]

Next Week: Two Big Keynotes, Twice the Live Coverage

Thursday, January 1, 2009

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As usual, this year will kick off with two of the biggest tech shows of the year, Macworld Expo and CES, scheduled so tightly that they overlap. But for the first time, Macworld Expo’s keynoter will be Apple marketing head Phil Schiller and CES’s will be Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. If nothing else, it marks [...]

Toshiba Introducing 512GB Solid State Drive

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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Solid state drives are finally moving into capacities that are useful for today’s modern applications. Toshiba said Thursday that it would be introducing a 512 gigabyte 2.5″ SSD at CES 2009 in January. The flagship SSD would be complemented by smaller capacity 64, 128, and 256GB drives available in the company, which would come in [...]

Maybe They Should Call It the Compact Electronics Show

Monday, December 1, 2008

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For tech journalists, the busiest week of all is the first full one of the year. It starts with San Francisco’s Macworld Expo, which involves a whole lot of hoopla about a handful of products (Apple ones, naturally). And then it segues into the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, at which no single product [...]