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Trade show freebies: a user guide
Blog With summer supposedly here and the trade show ‘open season’ officially running, I thought it would be prudent to offer this user guide to what I like to call ‘show-scooping’ in order to make sure you come away from your chosen exhibitions with...
[July 24, 2009, 13:14]
Trade show freebies: a user guide
Blog Comment As far a I can remember, extra bags are NOT difficult to come by at trade shows. "So go with me please on my show scooping mission - and if you’re really clever, take an extra bag along too!
[July 24, 2009, 14:31]
Trade groups steal antitrust show
News The trade groups endorse a wide-ranging split they claim will reel in Microsoft's predatory behavior while saving government attorneys from having to scour the company's every move to ensure it's not breaking antitrust laws.
[May 25, 2000, 8:36]
Trade show freebies: a user guide
Blog Comment I think Adrian may have meant a bag type bag instead of a plastic one?
[July 25, 2009, 23:30]
Trade show freebies: a user guide
Blog Comment I've certainly picked up some very nice canvas ones in the past.
[July 26, 2009, 3:00]
Trade show freebies: a user guide
Blog Comment light-hearted - but worthy of an in depth analysis - freebies are not to be sniffed at!
[July 26, 2009, 14:47]
Trade show freebies: a user guide
Blog Comment Excellent post Adrian, made me smile and nod in agreement! Freebies are an excellent source of branding and customer relations, as everyone knows, we all love a freebie! especially if you are female like me!
[July 27, 2009, 6:05]
Trade show freebies: a user guide
Blog Comment It was just a Friday, slightly-lighthearted type of a blog chaps. But I tell you what. I needed an extra light bag at JavaOne this year and only one stand had free bags. So there you go. It's a serious subject after all.
[July 26, 2009, 14:04]
Comdex organiser fears bankruptcy
News With its flagship Comdex conference set to begin in just three days, trade show promoter Key3Media warned on Thursday that the company may soon need to file for bankruptcy protection. In the statement, the company said its financial advisor...
[November 15, 2002, 10:20]
News Roundup: Computex takes over Taiwan
News The Computex trade show in Taiwan has played host to controversies around the latest chips from Intel and AMD, and has seen the introduction of products that could find their way into your PC soon. Monday, 4 June A 1.4GHz Athlon processor and...
[June 11, 2001, 11:33]
Microsoft to Oracle: Cease and desist
News Trade-show keynote speeches are a sure soapbox for vendors to dis their competitors. Microsoft's lawyers sent us a letter threatening to sue us," Ellison told the trade-show audience. But the letter didn't stop Ellison from reiterating that claim...
[October 27, 2000, 8:32]
All change at CeBIT
News The IT trade show first opened its doors in Hanover, northern Germany, 21 years ago, and will do so again between 15 and 21 March 2007. Although Longbottom acknowledges that CeBIT is still probably the largest IT trade show in the world, he also...
[March 12, 2007, 11:47]
CeBit America called off
News Trade show CeBit America 2005 has been cancelled, despite growing enthusiasm and a shrinking field of competing shows. Hannover Fairs USA sells floor space to American companies for the CeBit show in Hannover, Germany -- the world's largest...
[August 3, 2004, 8:40]
Fiorina warns tech gloom is spreading
News Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina opened the CeBIT trade show on a sour note Wednesday, predicting that the technology spending slowdown that has afflicted the United States is migrating to Europe.
[March 21, 2001, 15:39]
TechXNY refocuses on corporate IT
News The autumn 2003 trade show season will begin to heat up this week with TechXNY. The conference, which includes the three-day PC Expo trade show, will take over Manhattan's Jacob K. Despite some signs that the technology industry is recovering...
[September 15, 2003, 11:00]
Physicist remakes universe in computer's image
News Physicist Stephen Wolfram took the stage Wednesday at the Comdex Fall 2002 trade show, evangelising a computing-centric view of the universe that might sit better with the technology industry than it has with some other audiences.
[November 21, 2002, 7:34]
CeBIT boss expects good turnout
News The turnout for the CeBIT 2002 trade show in Hanover this March will at least match last year's attendance, Klaus Goehrmann, head of expo organisers Hannover Messe, told Wirtschaftswoche. For 2002, the trade show expects to tally at least 800,000...
[January 3, 2002, 10:53]
Wireless gadgets lift off at CTIA
News At the industry's biggest trade show, a lot of proud executives were on their hands and knees. The line for the rafts was among the longest on the trade show floor, partly because it took about a minute for Siemens, as a courtesy, to inflate each...
[March 21, 2002, 9:14]
Gates woos cable companies to Microsoft middleware
News Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, speaking at the opening session of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's annual trade show, outlined his company's new software for bridging cable television and interactive digital technology.
[June 10, 2003, 7:21]
