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Live from CES Press Day, 7 January 2009

7 January 2009 by Steve Blum
australia, CES2019, cisco, consumer electronics, ericsson, flacks, german, Intel, japanese, lg, linksys, microsoft, netgear, new zealand, sony, t-mbile, t-mobile, tagolog, toshiba, verizon, vodafone

Last to first, real time tweets from Las Vegas…

Bill Gates is the UrGeek. Love or hate him, he’s an original with historic scope. Heroic in classical sense. Ballmer…
Listening to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO. Microsoft will rule the world. Honest.
Sony shows great respect for mobile telecom carriers. Has WiFi Walkman in pipeline, but no 3/4G product that would cause consternation for Sony Ericsson’s mobile carrier customers.
Sony sez not in negotiations for NZ/Australia mobile carrier deals for netbook, sorry Lifestyle PC, but GSM deals in Europe are locked.

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Cisco is here to help. But whom?

7 January 2009 by Steve Blum
CES2019, cisco, consumer electronics, linksys, t-mobile

Cisco builds stuff for service providers. They’re at CES primarily to talk about their latest effort to extend their brand into the consumer realm, but there’s no doubting they’re network guys to the core.

Interesting comment from their service provider group SVp & GM Tony Bates: they’re deploying technology that makes service provider networks video aware. Of course, it’s with the consumer’s best interests in mind. If a service provider knows that video is streaming through it’s network, it can take steps to optimize the consumer’s experience.… More