Archive for the ‘CES Las Vegas 2007’ Category

Get into the Seagate car at CES

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Seagate was showing off — at the recent Consumer Electronics Show — when it spotlighted innovative Scion to demonstrate the kinds of entertainment and navigational systems that’ll soon be arriving in cars. Join Rob Pait, Seagate’s marketing manager for global consumer hard disc drives, as he gives us a tour of the Seagate-powered Scion.

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Get great video with DivX’s CEO at CES

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Jordan Greenhall, CEO and co-founder of DivX, sits down with me at the Consumer Electronics Show. If you haven’t seen the latest from DivX, you should. Its new Stage6 video system brings dramatically better quality than, say, YouTube. Here Greenhall tells us a little bit about what else DivX is up to.

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Seagate’s Home Entertainment Booth at CES

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Here we meet with David Burks who is the senior manager of consumer electronics marketing at Seagate and get a look at what Seagate is doing for home entertainment. Love that media storage farm!

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Looking for Investments at CES

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Jim Jones is a managing director at Scale Venture Partners, a venture capital firm which invests in emerging tech and healthcare companies. Jim’s focus is on semiconductors and consumer electronics, so we met with him last week at CES to see what he was seeing on the show floor.

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From CES: Retrevo Gang, Day 3 - Gadgets galore

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Here, on the final day of the Retrevo Gang from the Seagate booth at the Consumer Electronics Show, Vipin Jain, Retrevo’s CEO, and Andrew Eisner, Retrevo’s biggest gadget freak get together to wrap up what they saw on the show floor with me.

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From CES: Retrevo Gang, Day 2 - Apple and more

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Every day at CES last week we met with the Retrevo Gang - folks from Retrevo, the consumer electronics search engine, who held court and talked about the latest news - Apple iPhone and other gadgets. On the second day, San Jose Mercury News tech columnist Dean Takahashi dropped by for a chat with Vipin Jain, Retrevo’s CEO, and Andrew Eisner, Retrevo’s biggest gadget freak.

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Just walking through CES

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

We wanted to see how long it’d take to walk through the main hall at CES from one end to the other. Along the way you get a sense of just how big this is. Keep in mind you only saw one floor in this walk and there’s an entire other conference hall (which alone is far bigger than Mac World) that you haven’t seen yet.

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Seeing the Seagate Booth with Jim Druckrey

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Jim Druckrey tells me about what Seagate is trying to do with its booth at the Consumer Electronics Show and gives me a quick tour of its new products and branding. By the way, if Jim’s face looks familiar, this might explain why.

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The Great and Grand Mary Jo Foley

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Maryam Scoble ran into Mary Jo Foley at the BlogHaus, where she talked about why her name was once feared on the Microsoft Campus, why she covers Microsoft topics and what she is working on now.

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Retrevo Gang: best and worst from day 1 of CES

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

Every day from CES we’re meeting with staff members from Retrevo, a consumer electronics search engine, to hear what they are seeing at CES. They are walking miles to find you the best (and worst) of new gadgets from the floor at the Consumer Electronics Show.

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