CES-Consumer Electronic Show

Las Vegas, Nevada
January 2006

Of course, there are gazillion things to see in the twenty football fields' worth of exhibit floor space but the focus of our coverage was on mobile and wireless offerings. The following is a slice of the highlights we saw at the show:

Prominent presence of online search companies: Google and Yahoo. Both companies conducted high profile keynote sessions and had exhibit booths. - Both Google and Yahoo are in tight competition to capture the mobile/wireless market. Yahoo!Go offers search, IM, contact list, email, and photo sharing on phones, TVs and PCs. It will be on Nokia and Motorola Series 60 phones offered by Cingular. Google will have an icon on Motorola phones to do one click searches.
Google announced their video store. That is hot! They are fast becoming a giant media company, both with branded content such as CBS TV classics and with unbranded content generated by users uploading their videos.
Given all that we saw, Microsoft Vista, seemed too little too late by the time it comes out late this year.
Sharing Kodak moments (photos on your desktop or on online galleries) while you are Skype'ing was interesting.
Many mobile phones with built-in MP3 players everywhere. There are even mobile phones with 3D surround sound!
Intel booth had the MP3 car with some sort of WiMAX future capability. Where is the beef?
Intel is also branding the Viiv technology, which is supposed to market their dual core processor for home digital entertainment. Nothing close to Intel Inside!Many iPod wanna be's in all possible colors of the rainbow
Several mobile TV demonstrations using various technologies
It is true TV's are getting bigger and cell phones are getting smaller. Samsung demonstrated the world's largest plasma TV display at 102 inch wide. At $200K, it is a bargain!
Yes, Kodak V570 Dual-Lens digital camera: one lens is a 3x optical, the other an ultra wide angle lens. The wide angle lens lets you take in a lot more width, we are told 70% more, than a normal lens. Combined with in-camera panoramic stitching, one can get a 180 degree picture in just three shots.
And much more!