• Is that a fridge in your pocket?  CES gee whiz

    Here’s a really compelling show-and-tell on how mobile technology is integrating into our home appliances.  Through your cellphone and this fridge, you can manage your groceries, use it as a remote bulletin board, operate your washer and dryer, and even stream video from your TV set.  We’re going to see the Android mobile OS in…

  • Is CES still relevant?  Robert Scoble’s take

    The Consumer Electronics show is huge — some say too huge.  Too many companies, hawking too many of the same things, with too many people trying to communicate at the same time with too little internet access.  And yet, it’s a place for influencers to gather.  I’ve been connecting with a number of business, academic…

  • Survival gear for CES

    Big headline so far: this is the golden age of TV if anyone can figure out how to make sense of the fragmented mess of multiple platforms, social, search and discovery and a useful interface.  And that’s just for the screens that we know and love.  Cos’ here comes the car as the fourth (or…

  • Samsung bust, boom!

    We deliberately flew into Las Vegas early so that we could attend the Samsung press conference where they were to “push the boundaries.” We stood in line for 45 minutes with what seemed to be at least a thousand other journalists, only to be stopped at the door. The event was “at capacity.” And even…