Interesting Take-aways from CES 2010
The 2010 International CES, which ran from Jan. 7 to 10 in Las Vegas, was full of new and exciting technologies and products, as well as much-needed optimism and hope. The attendance was calculated at more than 120,000, up from the 2009 98,495number. The event also attracted 330 new exhibitors. Gaming, ebooks, 3-D HDTV, advances in OLED, green technologies, Internet TV, mobile DTV and digital entertainment were major themes of this year’s CES.
Huffington Post has a list of the “Best Products” of the CES, and one on which you don’t want to see your name, “Worst products”.
FCC Chairman and CEA Presdent and CEO discussed net neutrality, universal broadband access. VentureBeat
At his keynote address, Ballmer talked about how Microsoft will transform home entertainment through the Xbox 360 gaming console, a new tablet-style Windows PC, interfaces that respond to users’ gestures and more. “From the largest screen on the wall to the smallest screens in people’s pockets, we are delivering the entertainment people want,” he said. Reuters, CNN
LG, Samsung, Panasonic and Sony all showed 3-D-capable TVs, but current prices may not generate huge demand. Yahoo!/The Associated Press. Panasanic’s won Best of CES Award.
The vice president of research at CBS, David Poltrack, said that broadcast companies were taking a look at the benefits of “TV Everywhere” business model for another source of potential revenue stream, TVNewsCheck.
There were a number of E-reader demos from established players as well as some new names indicating a hot and crowded market, The Huffington Post.
Paul Otellini, Intel CEO, detailed his company’s vision of the connected home. “Computing is no longer confined to your computer — it’s everywhere,” he said during his keynote address, The Wall Street Journal.
Qualcomm Paul Jacobs outlined company’s vision in his keynote speech. The company’s Brew platform received backing from AT&T and Sprint to add to its Verizon Wireless support, The Wall Street Journal.