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I am back home and starting to decompress from the trip. Here is a Weekly Roundup devoted to interesting CES stuff. How can you do a news roundup during a CES week? well it won't be easy..but here goes nothing. Bill Gates Spoof of his last day was the highlight of the CES keynote, sad but true. Bill's...
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Further proof that I was in fact in Vegas is a video done by the Podtech.net folks during the first night at the Bloghaus during the keynote From the thumbnail preview of the video (even before you click it) you can see me sitting with my arm on the coffee table (in the grey'ish silver shirt and...
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The Neowin guys were filming as we sat around chatting with the Microsoft Surface folks in the Microsoft booth the other day at CES. Check out the video's of yours truly playing around with the device. (I am the guy in the blue stripe shirt just for reference) Water Demo I show Neowin some love via...
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Wow, a whole 4 hours of sleep and it was time to get up and get rolling again. I seem to have a knack for waking up at 5am. That and Robert set an alarm to get some deadlined work done. I didn't mind too much though since I needed to get yesterdays post and few things done before heading out. After...
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If you are into Ultra-Mobile PC's then you will be interested to know that here at CES Microsoft has been showing off the Origami 2.0 experience. This has already been delivered for testing to manufactures. Expect to see it on device soon. Here is a glimpse of the new experience: Additional Details...
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Yesterday was such a long day and today won't be any easier. I got up yesterday about 5am CST which is 3am PST or Las Vegas time. Quick shower and was on the road to the airport to catch my 7:20am flight. The flight boarded and left on time and we got into Vegas a few minutes early by flying low...
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Today Microsoft is announcing a very cool set of additions coming to Windows Home Server in the first half of 2008. Highlights of this upcoming Power Pack are: Windows Vista x64 Support Home Sever Backup to External Drive Improved Power Management Improved Remote Access and More Terry at Wegotserved...
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If you missed last nights keynote by Bill Gates, its ok. You didn't miss anything really new. It was a bit emotional for some given that it is his last keynote in his currently position. You got a lot of information about user base a little defense of Vista and glimpse at other vision like Live,...
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CES here I come. I am sitting in the Houston airport waiting to board my flight that leaves here in just under one hour. Today is going to be a crazy busy day and very long day. Once I get in I will be heading straight to the hotel to drop of my stuff. Then over to the convention center to pick up my...
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It looks like Warner Brothers had a little help in deciding to go Blu-Ray only in the form of 500 million dollars. Staring in May the studio that had been format neutral is planting its flag firmly in the Blu camp. Is this the death nail in the HD-DVD coffin? Yesterday to make matters appear worse in...
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Microsoft has put up a Microsoft at CES site that will allow you to stay up to date on the goings on at the show. Keynote Join Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman, and Robbie Bach, President of the Entertainment & Devices Division, along with their surprise guests for the opening keynote of CES 2008....
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Today in the mail I got a review unit of the HP Travel Companion 310. The 310 is a multi-purpose device designed to facilitate a number of roles for the traveler. It offers GPS Navigation, a Media Player, a Contact repository, Games, Bluetooth capabilities, and more. Here are my impressions from spending...
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HP is announcing a slew of things today and one that I have been anxious to take a further,longer, look at is the HP tx2000 tablet. HP took a lot of great feedback from the blogging community from the tx1000 and crammed it into this little guy. I had a chance to stop by HP's Headquarters with James...
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I caught over on Engadget that HP has announced a few updates in store for its Media Smart Server. Next month they will be adding a trial centralized AntiVirus product via McAfee. They will also be adding enhanced media streaming and the most important bit for all us home server geeks is that this update...
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We, meaning I, will be running around like mad at CES trying to get a glimpse of all the cool stuff and with so much to cover you have to know ahead of times some of what you want to hit. The obvious are the Microsoft booths and related partners, but to help guide me I want to know what you all are most...