Thursday, June 4, 2009
Palm: Likely to Stumble with Pre
On June 6, Palm (PALM) will release the Pre, a smartphone many hope will fuel a resurgence of a company long since fallen from grace.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Al Gore Opens His CTIA Keynote to the Press After All
Last week, PCMag.com’s Sascha Segan pointed out something unusual about former Vice President Al Gore’s keynote speech at next week’s CTIA Wireless phone trade show in Las Vegas: It wasn’t going to be open to the press, apparently at the request of Gore or his staff. It was a truly jarring bit of news. I’ve been attending tech trade shows for a couple of decades, and can’t remember a single other keynote that the media wasn’t invited to attend.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives
The cellphone is the world’s most ubiquitous computer. With the dominance of the cellphone, a new metaphor is emerging for how we organize, find and use information. That metaphor is the map.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
A Friendly DRM?
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem announced six new members at the Consumer Electronics Show, taking one more (small) step toward its goal of creating a standard way for consumers to acquire movies and other types of entertainment online.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Palm: Another Bear Cries Uncle; But Goldman Unswayed
The bears on Palm continue to cave after a furious rally in the stock following the company’s announcement of its “new newness,” the Palm Web OS and the Palm Pre handset.
Yesterday, the stock was upgraded by former Palm bears at Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. This morning, UBS analyst Maynard Um made a similar move. “The Palm Pre generated significant buzz at CES, surprised us to the upside and breathed new life into Palm’s stagnant portfolio,” he wrote in a research note. “Though the company still has challenges ahead, it’s clear the winds now appear to have shifted in its favor.”
Monday, January 12, 2009
CES: Introducing the Obama iPod Dock
When the popularity of Barack Obama meets the popularity of iPod speaker docks, you get…an Obama iPod speaker dock.
But Taiwan-based Ozaki, the company behind the dancing President-elect, didn’t stop there. The Obama dock is part of its iMini line, which fuses the technology of an iPod dock, radio, alarm and speakers–and fuzzy fabric.
CES: Broadcom Offers Chip for Cellphone HD Video Cam
In an interview with Tech Trader Daily, Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor said that the company has developed a chip that will allow cellphone manufacturers to put HD video cameras in their handsets. The chips will be available later this year, although McGregor said that one manufacturer was displaying a prototype privately at CES. He didn’t say which one.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
CES Survival Kit
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)
Friday, January 9, 2009
CES: Netflix on the Hunt
Reed Hastings is prowling CES for deals. Already, in the past year, the CEO of DVD rental service Netflix Inc. has cut at least a half-dozen partnerships with consumer electronics makers to make a Netflix service that streams movies and television shows over the Internet watchable on television sets via game consoles, digital video recorders and other gadgets.
CES: Live Blogging With Disney/ABC’s Anne Sweeney
I’m back at the Las Vegas Hilton Theater, where Anne Sweeney, head of Disney’s ABC Television networks is about to take to the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show. Consumer Electronics Association head Gary Shapiro comes on stage to introduce Sweeney. He plays a video showing snippets of ABC shows (”Ugly Betty,” etc.)
Thursday, January 8, 2009
CES: The High-Tech Art of Shredding
Do you like your documents shredded with a cross cut or micro cut? Here’s a hint: Shredders using the micro cut make the smallest cut, which slashes documents into such small pieces that it provides “maximum” security, while the cross cut shreds documents to provide just “enhanced” security.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Weekend Roundup: Solar, CES, Converter Boxes, More
Well, take a deep breath: The tech sector starts off the new year with a bang this week, with the Steve Jobs-less Macworld in San Francisco and the Bill Gates-less CES coming up in Las Vegas. I’ll be at Moscone West for the Macworld keynote by Apple marketing exec Phil Schiller Tuesday morning; later in the week, Tiernan Ray and I will be covering all the news from CES.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Digital Rights Misery: When Technology Is Designed to Fail
When I was reporting from CES in Las Vegas last January, one of the more interesting technology experiences I had was away from the show floor, back in my hotel room. After a long night and little sleep, I decided to watch a little television; apparently this is common in Vegas, as my budget hotel considered a 42-inch plasma TV to be normal furnishing for a room that omitted a couch and a comfortable chair.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Giz Banned for Life and Loving It: On Pranks and Civil Disobedience at CES
A Gizmodo writer has been banned from CES for a prank. But when I see some fellow press damning us for the joke, I feel sorry for them: When did journalists become the protectors of corporations? When did this industry, defined by pranksters like Woz, get so serious and in-the-pocket of big business? This is totally pathetic.
Monday, January 14, 2008
CES: Interview: Jeff Weiner, EVP-Network Division, Yahoo: You’ll See This Stuff in ‘08
When Marco Boerries and David Filo joined Jerry Yang on the stage of the Las Vegas Hilton Theater to show off new launches and upcoming concepts, the audience at their feet included most of Yahoo’s top management–among them Jeff Weiner, whom we last heard from here after he shook up the Yahoo Media Group. Weiner seemed a little taken aback by my comparison of Yang’s presentation with the one Terry Semel gave in 2006, particularly with how many elements of the strategy–for instance, Go, the three-screen approach to connecting–were still in place albeit evolving.
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