Long line for Gates
Lining up for the Bill Gates keynote. — Each year I write about the insane lines and crowds at CES. The only place I don't have to wait is the women's bathroom because the female to male ratio is a...
Bill Gates Looks Ahead at “Next Digital Decade”
Microsoft announces new entertainment partnerships with Disney-ABC Television Group, MGM and NBC Universal. — At the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill...
How Techmeme Homepage Changes Over Time - Video
It's amazing to see how blog stories make it to the Techmeme homepage, stay there for a couple of minutes (or hours) and then get replaced by fresh news. — The following video clip captures 50 hours...
Exclusive: Windows Mobile 7 To Focus On Touch and Motion Gestures
Microsoft is currently developing Windows Mobile 7, the first revolutionary change to its mobile device operating system. Recently, I was given a document by a source inside Microsoft that details th...
CES: Sony plays up its huge lineup of gear
Just got out of the Sony press conference. I've dashed off some stuff that will appear in tomorrow's CES story but here's a look at what I wrote. — Sony Chairman and chief executive Sir Howard Stri...
Breaking News: NBC Universal Selects Microsoft and Silverlight to Power Olympics Video
Just received news out of NBC Universal that they have selected Microsoft to host the online video portal for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The site will be available at NBCOlympics.com and will be powe...
Philips partners with Rhapsody for digital music
LAS VEGAS—Dutch electronics group Philips is forming an alliance with digital media company RealNetworks to offer online music using Philips' music players, the two companies said Sunday. — Philips,...
What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media
I was reading a Goldman Sachs research report on the radio business on the plane back from Australia. I came across this chart of EBITDA multiples versus EBITA growth rates for various media categori...
Saddest Sight in the World: HD DVD Sponsored Bags at CES
Oh, poor HD DVD. Toshiba pays big bucks to stamp its name and the HD DVD logo on every journo bag they hand out at CES. But Warner's bitchslap has sent them home to cut their wrists and cry in the c...
@twitcrit: instareviews
So here's what I'm trying — and I'm grateful for any help in doing it better: — The idea is that Twitter users can share instant reviews of what they're watching — TV shows, movies, concerts, anythi...
Press Center
Products Events — BenQ Reveals its First Mobile Internet Device at 2008 CES — Giving users a full interactive Internet experience anytime, anywhere by combining the advantages of notebooks and sma...
Amazon launches software downloads
Online retailer Amazon has launched a software download section. And when we say launched, we mean, they've built a software downloader application which you can currently use to download a handful o...
Fujitsu intros a handful of concept designs at CES 2008
Fujitsu isn't just updating old laptops, you know. The company currently has scores of mad geniuses sweating away on new, bizarre, and possibly unnecessary concepts, too. For your viewing pleasure w...
Spin, Click, Groove
Full-Color Controller, Wireless Receiver Allow People To Manage Digital Music from the Palm of Their Hand — LAS VEGAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Today Logitech …
MapReducing 20 petabytes per day
Googlers Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat have an article, “MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters”, in the January 2008 issue of Communications of the ACM. — It is a great introductio...
Telecom Firm in China Sets Sights on U.S. Market
‘Opaqueness’ in Firm's Ownership and State Ties Raises Security Concerns — SHENZHEN, China — From a fortress-like corporate campus in this southern city, retired army officer Ren Zhengfei is buildin...
CES gadget: Sony re-enters the GPS navigation market with some cool features
Sony is introducing a couple of new global positioning system navigation (GPS) devices at its press conference today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The so-called nav-u car GPS navigat...
Casio's new ambition: Fast-frame rate camera
Casio is unveiling a radical departure from its basic point-and-shoot camera roots Sunday, the $1,000 Exilim Pro EX-F1 that the company says can shoot 60 still images per second or movies at 1,200 fra...
SAMSUNG Expands Its Q1 Ultra Line With New High-Performance UMPC
Q1 Ultra Premium UMPC Features Intel Core Solo Pentium CPU, Named 2008 CES Innovations Honoree — Samsung Electronics America, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Corporation, a global leader in digi...
Information overload in the Facebook-ABC presidential debates?
MANCHESTER, N.H.—It sounded like a good idea at first: Let Internet users be part of, virtually speaking, the Democratic and Republican presidential debates on Saturday evening by posting comments on ...
Saddest Sight in the World: HD DVD Sponsored Bags at CES
Oh, poor HD DVD. Toshiba pays big bucks to stamp its name and the HD DVD logo on every journo bag they hand out at CES. But Warner's bitchslap has sent them home to cut their wrists and cry in the c...