CES 2008 cabbie interview: more info than Gate’s keynote?

“So, what is new?” is the first question I get as I get into the taxi from in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center.  I had been trying to reply that question for the past four days.  I’ve seen seas of LCD TVs (most black, shiny and look virtually identical).  There has been lots of HD networking products, lots of talk about Blu-ray (not lots about HD-DVD, ha).  More and more iPod

docks than seems essential, but who am I to complain.

What I saw and heard a lot about is manufacturers working on technology they don’t know what they (or we) will do with.  Like Microsoft’s PopFly, a mash up for Silverlight.  According to a MS spokesperson, “we don’t have a revenue model for it yet”.  There was some push for mobile TV (ala Korea) but I am […]

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