Before closing the book on this year’s CES, I thought I’d post some final pics from the booth. Some of these photos are mine and some come from the official Motorola Flickr stream. Enjoy. Here are several colorful versions of the new Motorola CPEi 775 WiMAX/WiFi modems. This is the Motorola CCE Storefront app shown [...]
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Even as President-elect Obama aims to digitize health records within five years, the commercial and academic sectors are working at other ways to improve the health system through technology. MIT, for example, is working with the video industry on an application for providing medical reminders to patients through their TV sets. Very few people take [...]
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I’ve heard many people say that CES 2009 was evolutionary rather than revolutionary. The follow-on is that with no break-out products, the latest gadget extravaganza was rather dull. While I agree with the first premise, I heartily disagree with the second. When I think back to CES 2008, netbooks were barely on the radar, only [...]
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Lots of folks covering lots of TV news this week. The NCTA blog has a piece up on the launch of the first retail tru2way TVs, and Jeff Baumgartner prognosticates on tru2way in 2009. Plus, Comcast hit the 1,000 mark for HD content offerings. And Nielsen reports that nine million homes are still not ready [...]
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Yahoo and Intel previewed their Widget Channel today, a “television application framework optimized for TV and related devices.” Essentially, the two companies are showing how to bring a wide range of new applications to TV via widgets, and they’re advocating for an open standard in order to fill out a “TV Widget ecosystem”. (Analysis up [...]
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