toshiba – Steve Blum's Blog

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6 January 2010 by Steve Blum
CES2019, consumer electronics, ibm, iptv, new stuff, set top box, sony, toshiba

The set top box is on the run, harried away by television manufacturers. Toshiba sounded the hunting horn this morning, unveiling its Cell TV product line. Don’t be fooled by the name, it’s a classic case of branding in a vacuum. It has nothing to do with mobile phones. It’s a computer morphed into a set top box and wrapped with a big screen TV. The set top box is the TV.

Spot the set top boxToshiba calls the chip that powers it the Cell TV Broadband Engine, which was developed in a joint venture with Sony and IBM.… More

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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