LAS VEGAS — The technology on display at the Consumer Electronics Show each year provides a glimpse, or at least a hint, of what’s headed to our living rooms. One underlying trend at this year’s show promised to hasten the end of “television” as we know it. Capping an evolution underway over the last several… Read More…
LAS VEGAS — Microsoft’s Windows 8 may be getting a bashing in some corners of the tech media, but to see the crowds jamming the Intel booth at the Consumer Electronics Show, it’s clear that the new operating system is a curiosity, at least. Ultrabooks, the new generation of slim, lightweight Intel-based Windows 8 laptops,… Read More…
LAS VEGAS — Panasonic today introduced a remarkable 20-inch 4K tablet at CES 2013: a tablet so new it doesn’t yet have a name, and so big it might not fit in your bag. The prototype, described by a Panasonic spokesman as “pre-production,” is an Intel-based Windows 8 tablet with 3840 x 2560 pixels: “beyond… Read More…
Breaking news: Steve Ballmer is bald. Just kidding about the breaking news part, unless you’re obsessed with keeping track of CEO’s and their haircuts. But for real, Microsoft’s CEO rocked a new haircut yesterday at the CES. In fact, he didn’t just get a haircut — he got all of his hairs cut. Linda Thomas… Read More…
Hanson Hosein was once embedded with the U.S. military in Iraq as a correspondent for NBC News. So it means something when he describes his experience at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as something he doesn’t want to soon repeat. I’ve never been in a war zone, but I’ve been to CES, and… Read More…
Ben Rudolph was back in Redmond today with a far better outcome than most people who spend a week betting in Las Vegas. “I think it was cool for us to literally put our money where our mouth is — to show the world that we believe in the product that we built,” the Windows… Read More…
ION Audio’s Guitar Apprentice generated lots of attention from national press at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. It’s a guitar shell that holds an iPad, helping people learn to play guitar using a special app in combination with a light-up fretboard. Turns out another company had the same idea – and it has the attention of the U.S. Patent Office. Behringer,… Read More…
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, BuddyTV is previewing an upcoming update to its BuddyTV Guide iPad app. The update from the Seattle company integrates new social features into the experience, such as the ability to invite friends to watch and chat about shows together. BuddyTV CEO Andy Liu gives us a run-through… Read More…
Posting from Las Vegas: Augmented reality has made progress on smartphones, with apps letting people layer information and graphics over a view of the real world. A startup from the Seattle region is looking to take the next step toward an AR future with special contact lenses that make it possible to view objects… Read More…
Posting from Las Vegas: Microsoft is promoting Windows Phone here at the Consumer Electronics Show with a publicity stunt that mixes competition with good-natured humiliation. And so far it’s working out pretty well for the company. At the company’s CES booth, Ben Rudolph of the Windows Phone team is challenging users of other smartphones to… Read More…
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