Archive for January, 2009

Dr. Paul Liao’s Thoughts on Free Markets and Tech Policy

By Jason Oxman
With the swearing in of our nation’s first Digital President, the technology community has taken center stage as a driver of economic recovery through innovation. One of the more thoughtful leaders in our industry, Dr. Paul Liao of Panasonic, offers an important codicil to the innovation agenda:  embracing free markets to deliver [...]

Friday, January 30th, 2009

I, For One, Welcome Our Netbook Overlords…

by Jack Cutts
For those of you who have been living under a rock for most of 2008, “netbooks” have taken the consumer electronics world by storm. While I could wax poetic about the differences between a netbook and a laptop, suffice it to say that a netbook is a small laptop and let’s leave [...]

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Free Local Radio Should Buy Sirius XM

By Dave Wilson
Seriously. According to Yahoo Finance, Sirius XM’s enterprise value right now is under $4 billion. This means free local radio broadcasters might be able to buy all of the stock of Sirius XM, buy out those with minority ownership interests, and pay off Sirius XM’s debt for about $4 billion. If $4 [...]

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The First Digital President

By Jason Oxman
Our nation welcomed its first Digital President on Tuesday and I was thrilled to be part of the crowd of nearly two million who braved temperatures in the teens to watch it all happen.  Well, watch some of it happen – despite setting out at 9:30, I didn’t actually reach Pennsylvania Ave. [...]

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

A Greener Gadgets 2009 Conversation with Jill Fehrenbacher and Marc Alt

By Tara Dunion
1. How are you planning to build off the successful Greener Gadgets event you launched last February?
Jill: Last year’s Greener Gadgets Conference was a ton of fun – and there was also a huge learning curve because it was the first event of that size that we had ever put on.  [...]

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

William Kamkwamba, An Inspiring African Inventor

By Brianne O’Leary
Technology and Emerging Countries is a fairly new but very vital part of the Consumer Electronics Show, the program looks at the important role that technology does and can play in economic development across the globe. Technology and Emerging Countries took place for its second year at the 2009 International CES. The [...]

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Star Sightings at the International CES

  By Brianne O’Leary
I have a confession to make. I am a celebri-holic. Instead of flipping through tabloids this past week to get the latest scoop on Brangelina or Heidi and Spencer I had the opportunity to have celeb spottings of my very own at the International CES. My first brush with fame came on [...]

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

150 Down to 1… Last Gadget Standing

By Colleen Lerro
I made it to the Last Gadget Standing SuperSession at CES on Saturday and had a blast. Bloggers in the NetShelter Network reviewed more than 150 products and narrowed the list down to 10 that faced off to be named the last gadget standing.
Check out the top 10.
Each company got just four [...]

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

SHARP’s MLB Night – Next Time I Need a Study Guide

By Allison Carney

I had the honor of attending SHARP’s (CES) Invitation only MLB event this week at Encore’s new Club XS. Sarah Szabo and I checked in a little late, but were given an envelope with different colored index cards inside with baseball stars names printed on them.
What could these cards be for we [...]

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Sound Matters

By Laura Hubbard
I have been in Vegas for five days, running around the show floor from press conferences to sessions and it was a welcome change to start this morning in the High Performance Audio area of CES. After the incredible experience of seeing Diana Ross live in concert last night, it was amazing [...]

Saturday, January 10th, 2009