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Topic: Recap

January 12, 2007, 3:56 PM

Posted in: The show in-depth

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Tim Conneally, BetaNews: As a first-timer at CES, I was naturally overwhelmed by it, but not because of its formidable size or the profusion of vendors, rather because it was just so mazy. The convention center alone required three separate maps to navigate, and only after a few laps around the show floors did they actually prove useful. You stop being lost when you start using landmarks, and you can't help but feel like a Sherpa when you help someone find their way by referring to something as the Pyramid of flat screens or the Ruins of the coffee bar. I'm quite sure, though, that Himalayan mountain men never use the word "kiosk."

This show became less about technology for me and more about lines. The queue for registration was tremendous, the lines for food service were absurd, and don't even ask about the wait for a cab or the shuttle to your hotel. At the Bill Gates keynote, five people would come up to me and ask if Nate's seat was taken every time he went up to take a photograph. Every single time.

Topic: Michael Dell Keynote

January 9, 2007, 4:04 PM

Posted in: The show in-depth


Michael Dell had a keynote address at CES Tuesday morning. With all due respect to poor Michael, he had a lot of competition, and we weren't listening to it right up front - something else was going on that had our attention, so I hope he forgives us. Mr. Dell reportedly used a lot of his time on stage to announce some new top-of-the-line XPS desktop and notebook combos, as Ed Oswald reports.

Topic: Bill Gates keynote

January 8, 2007, 12:03 AM

Posted in: The show in-depth

Scott Fulton, BetaNews: While the P.A. system and the streaming video feeds worldwide played tracks from Pickin' on Pink Floyd: A Bluegrass Tribute (our Sharon Fisher picked out the tracks), about a thousand attendees, by Nate Mook's count, waited anxiously for Microsoft to announce whatever they were going to announce. Meanwhile, in the press aisles, Microsoft's handlers were passing out copies of releases stating what it is they were about to have seen after 90 minutes had passed. Ninety minutes later, it isn't as though the world had changed, but perhaps the CES show did. Maybe we're talking about Vista now more than we thought we would.