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Live from the Consumer Electronics Show: Day 1

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

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Robert J. Elisberg

The convergence of the Internet, TV and movies is not only ever-more pronounced this year, it's becoming a mature industry.

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The Consumer Electronics Show Gets Underway

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 01.08.2009 | Business

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<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

It's not a coincidence that the porn industry meets in Vegas at the same time as the annual tech fest, when the town teems with guys who spent the best years of their lives with their hands on their joysticks.

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Blu Ray Faces Fuzzy Future

New York Times | Matt Richtel and Brad Stone | Posted 01.05.2009 | Business

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The biggest news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last January was not the birth of a new product but the death of one. A decision by Wa...

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Laptop Monitor Illuminated By Sunlight Uses 75% Less Power Outside

Treehugger.com | Posted 12.24.2008 | Green

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More news of cool items to be shown off at CES. LG is unveiling a display that is illuminated by sunlight while outdoors, which means it helps decr...

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Moonves Says "TV Model Ain't Broken": MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer December 11, 2008

Shelly Palmer | Posted 12.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Verizon, Strike, Zune, Microsoft, Les Moonves, Wimax, Lte, Jeff Zucker, Mediabytes, Cbs, Simon Baker, Ces, Steve Ballmer, Sag, Shelly Palmer, Dick Lynch, Tv Model, Phone, Media News, The Mentalist, Nbc, Media News
Shelly Palmer

In reaction to Jeff Zucker's comment that the old TV business is dying, CBS exec Les Moonves is adamant that "the model ain't broken. The model work...

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Memo to Detroit: Change Now or Die

Steve Parker | Posted 11.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Boeing, Chevy Volt, Saturn, Chrysler, Gm, Alan Mulally, Ucla, Gary Shapiro, Rick Wagoner, Epa, W. Edwards Deming, Ford, Cars, Cerberus Capital Management, General Motors, Ces, Robert Nardelli, William Clay Ford, Nhtsa, Japan, Plug-in Hybrids, SUV Sales, Business News
Steve Parker

Most Americans think you have brought this disaster upon yourselves, with inferior, irrelevant products the past 35 years.

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Beyond "The Big Test": A Brilliant Idea to Improve Schools

Dan Brown | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living

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Dan Brown

If a brilliant idea slapped us in the face for how to help public school students achieve more, would we recognize it? Today, schools' everyday funct...

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The Writers Workbench: CES 2008 - Ohm Where Heart Is

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 01.30.2008 | Entertainment

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Robert J. Elisberg

Early January is actually the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. The time of the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. Yes, it's a madhouse circus. But it's Disneyland for adults.

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CES: The Final Roundup

SeekingAlpha | Eric Savitz | Posted 01.13.2008 | Business

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So that's it. The Consumer Electronics Show ended Thursday in Las Vegas. Not much happens Thursday; it's the day for exhibitors to cruise each other's...

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Gizmodo Blogger Banned From CES

Portfolio | Sam Gustin | Posted 01.11.2008 | Business

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A blogger for Gizmodo, a part of Gawker Media, has been banned from the Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest annual event in the tech industry, afte...

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CES 2008 Key Take-aways

Shelly Palmer | Posted 01.11.2008 | Business

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Shelly Palmer

Wireless HD, BluRay, IP-enabled television monitors and very, very thin flat screens dominated the consumer electronics show this year. I could write a book about what I saw this week.

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CES Attendees Are Packing Gadgets, Hand Sanitizers

Los Angeles Times | Alex Pham | Posted 01.10.2008 | Business

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The Consumer Electronics Show is packed with gadget freaks, but also with hypochondriacs. Take 140,000 sleep-deprived, overworked people, cram them i...

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CES: Thin, Big Screen TVs Were The Star

New York Times | MATT RICHTEL | Posted 01.10.2008 | Business

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The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week was an unabashed display of high-technology gadgetry. Televisions, enormously wide and remarkably...

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CES: Same Old Show, Some New Ideas

New York Times | David Pogue | Posted 01.10.2008 | Business

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One million exhibitors. Sixty million attendees. Four trillion booths spread across an area the size of Rhode Island. Those aren't really the specs f...

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Comcast Plans Ambitious Increase Of On-Demand TV Shows, Movies

Fortune | Tim Arango | Posted 01.08.2008 | Business

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Comcast, the nation's largest cable television company, will outline an ambitious plan Tuesday to set up two new paradigms for how people will watch m...

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Microsoft Xbox Live: Actually A Real Business Now

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 01.08.2008 | Business

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Microsoft (MSFT) devoted most of its CES presentations to a sexy but small sideshow--the Entertainment and Devices division--but some of the Xbox stat...

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Bill Gates Works Out WIth McConaughey, Raps With Jay-Z, Auditions For Spielberg In CES Video

Gizmodo | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business

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OMG, I can hear the fanboys battling already. Here's a video from last night's CES 2008 keynote, Bill Gates' last for the foreseeable future. And I kn...

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Panasonic Unveils 150-Inch Plasma TV

Engadget | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business

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Although we got to see some pics of this beast under wraps, there's nothing like seeing it in person. The gigantic HDTV was unveiled at Panasonic's ke...

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Walloped Toshiba Whimpers About Saving HD DVD

Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business

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Still reeling from Warner Bros.'s decision to abandon its its HD DVD format for Sony's Blu-ray, Toshiba did its best to put on a brave face at a CES p...

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Gates Pushes Idea of Windows Everywhere

AP | BRIAN BERGSTEIN | Posted 01.07.2008 | Business

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LAS VEGAS — Microsoft Corp. might not be the unbeatable giant it once seemed to be, but Chairman Bill Gates made the case Sunday night that its ...

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GM Working On Cars That Drive Themselves

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 01.06.2008 | Business

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Cars that drive themselves -- even parking at their destination -- could be ready for sale within a decade, General Motors Corp. executives say. GM, ...

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Preview: Las Vegas' Greatest Gadgets Show

Forbes | Rachel Rosmarin | Posted 01.02.2008 | Business

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Kevin Costner, Yoko Ono, Mary J. Blige and Danica Patrick will be hawking products at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week--but they'l...

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