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Live from CES Unveiled, pre-press day, Tuesday 6 January 2009

6 January 2009 by Steve Blum
apple computer, asus, blaupunkt, boxee, broadcom, CEA, CES2019, consumer electronics, hd radio, igo, Intel, lenovo, msi, novatel wireless, powermat, sigma, truphone

Last to first, real time tweets from Las Vegas…

Tethering is deciding battle between mobile carriers & CE industry. CE guys don’t get it, think it’s a tech problem. It’s the money!
Novatel Wireless hasn’t signed any carriers yet. Expects to Real Soon Now. If they do, it’s a significant market signal re tethering.
Novatel Wireless also into tethering. Selling gizmo combining mobile data card, embedded Linux, WiFi tethering. Serves 5 users at once.
Blaupunkt has Internet car radio.

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Live from Showstoppers Media Event at MacWorld 2009

5 January 2009 by Steve Blum
boingo, consumer electronics, drobo, macworld, newber, showstoppers, skype, stellar information systems, truphone, uclick

Last to first, realtime tweets from Showstoppers event at MacWorld in San Francisco, 5 January 2009…

Advice to Truphone: go ahead, stick it to The Man!
Truphone guy sez he’s heard about something called hacking somewhere but doesn’t know what it means. Really..
I will try Truphone next week from New Zealand, if I can figure out how to load it on my hacked iphone.
Drobo showing usual data back up stuff, it’s good but expensive, now offering a Linux NAS.

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