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PC Giants To Grab Spotlight At Electronics Show
News When the mammoth Consumer Electronics Show kicks off Saturday in Las Vegas, household names in the PC world, such as Microsoft and Intel, will take centrestage. To be sure, the biggest consumer electronics names will be there too, but the energy...
[January 4, 2001, 11:18]
CES: Products To Watch
News As expected, Sharp Electronics said its Zaurus SL-5500 handheld computer will be available later in the first quarter. The debut of a hot new device or product category -- usually the talk of the annual show in Las Vegas -- often sets the tone for...
[January 9, 2002, 9:29]
It's Techno Time At Toy Fair 2000
News Most of those product lines will sound familiar to anyone who has been following the consumer electronics and computer industries over the past few years. You've got more and more consumer electronics being pitched to kids at a younger age," he said.
[February 14, 2000, 9:24]
CES: Samsung Chief Executive Unveils Home Gadgets
News During his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Korean executive showed off the Nexio S150 wireless handheld PC. Samsung chief executive Daeje Chin unveiled several new products in Las Vegas on Tuesday, as he spoke of the...
[January 9, 2002, 9:12]
Fiorina Warns Tech Gloom Is Spreading
News At its own CeBIT news conference, the Japanese electronics giant showed off a handheld computer called the MultiMedia Tool, based on the Linux operating system, that can play MPEG4 videos and MP3 music.
[March 21, 2001, 15:39]
Home Networking Buzzing At CES
News That is the vision to be presented this week at the massive Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. We're really a transitional generation," said Ron Goldberg, executive editor of E/Town, an Internet home electronics guide.
[January 7, 1999, 14:35]
PCs And Gadgets Battle To Be King Of The Living Room
News The debate over whether the gadgets or the PCs will win out took centre stage at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show on Tuesday as PC makers took on the consumer-electronics industry in a panel discussion.
[November 20, 2002, 11:29]
CES: Gates Wants Windows XP In Your Living Room
News At the Consumer Electronics Show, which begins late Monday in Las Vegas, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates showed off a prototype consumer interface for Windows XP, code-named Freestyle. Chief executives from two of the companies, Samsung and HP, are...
[January 8, 2002, 9:14]
Copyright Truce Excludes Key Voices
News The Consumer Electronics Association has long-opposed Hollings' bill, while supporting a different proposal to enhance Americans' rights to make "fair use" of copyrighted content without running afoul of the law.
[January 15, 2003, 15:45]
CES: Name Change And First Product For Rearden Steel
News After two years of secrecy, start-up Rearden Steel will jump into the home entertainment market on Monday by announcing its first products and a name change at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
[January 7, 2002, 15:27]
Samsung Hybrid Hard Drive Extends Laptop Battery Life
News Samsung Electronics says notebook users will get an extra half hour of battery life and be able to boot up their computers faster using its hybrid hard drive, which will come out in PCs in 2007. South Korean electronics giant Samsung showed off a...
[May 16, 2006, 9:35]
Intel Gives A Peek At Future PC Designs
News That means new technology will be needed to allow internal components, such as DVD drives, printers and consumer electronics, to be connected to the new legacy-free PCs. Consumer electronics giant Philips Electronics N.V.showed a 42-inch flat panel...
[February 25, 1999, 9:34]
Comdex 2004 Cancelled
News Computer trade show Comdex, once the biggest event on the tech calendar, has been cancelled this year, a victim of the growing interest in shows emphasising consumer electronics and specialist IT gear.
[June 24, 2004, 8:35]
Can Palm Pocket E-tailing?
News Palm CEO, Carl Yankowski, unveiled eWallet at the Computer Electronics Show on Saturday, an upcoming feature that will allow Palm users to buy products and services via their handhelds. Despite the new features, Palm will keep to its Bauhaus-like...
[January 8, 2001, 10:56]
AMD Highlights Standards In Live Push
News This week AMD will unveil its "Live" brand at the Consumer Electronics Show, which is about to get underway in Las Vegas. The brand - whose logo will be printed on a sticker on the chassis of a desktop or notebook - will indicate that the computer...
[January 4, 2006, 8:40]
LinuxWorld: Gadgets Draw The Crowds
News The crowds are down at this year's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, but there has still been a mob surrounding the Sharp Electronics booth showing the Linux-powered Zaurus handheld computer. Show attendance dropped from about 24,000 last year to 18...
[February 1, 2002, 11:22]
Mobile TV Moving Into The Mainstream
News The company will show off the technology at the Computer Electronics Show kicking off on 5 January in Las Vegas. Royal Philips Electronics says watching TV on mobiles isn't just an Asian phenomenon. The Dutch electronics giant now plans to bring...
[December 12, 2005, 8:50]
Instant Messaging Goes 3D
News Operating in secrecy for the past four years, the company is announcing several e-commerce and distribution partners at the Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, including Levi Strauss and Nike.
[January 8, 2003, 9:59]
New Microsoft Gadget Set For Debut
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will show off the device, known as Mira, during his eHome presentation this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Mira will be larger than a standard Pocket PC-based handheld and be closer in size to...
[January 7, 2002, 10:27]
Microsoft's 'Mira' Delayed
News Fujitsu, NEC, Philips Electronics, TriGem Computer and ViewSonic are among the manufacturers working on Smart Display machines. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates introduced the software, then code-named Mira, at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
[October 15, 2002, 13:36]
