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Baby’s First CES (plus the Gates Keynote)
I flew into Las Vegas today for my first official trip to CES. Somehow, I'm not sure how, I've managed to avoid going to...
CES Diary: Digital Experience
I went from the keynote directly to the Digital Experience show over at Caesar's Palace. Pepcom, who put on the show, offered us media...
Wales Waves Wikia Search
What bigger way to kick off a new year than by announcing that you are creating an open-source, socially driven alternative to search engines...
Gates Bids Farewell to CES
LAS VEGAS—In what might have been his final keynote address at an International CES event, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates opened the 2008 expo with...
Why the Most Sophisticated Supply Chains Fall Apart in the Last Few Links
In what is surely a retail tech addendum to Murphy's Law, the more sophisticated and elaborate a retailer's supply chain strategy is, the more...
Sears Closes Part of Site, Concedes Purchases Revealed
On the heels of admitting that it was using spyware on one of its e-commerce sites, Sears officials said Jan. 4 they were temporarily...
How Much of a Guarantee Is Best Buy’s Guarantee?
Retail marketers have always been in love with the word guarantee, without feeling the need to embrace its meaning. CRM vendors, for example, have...
Hosted Storage Saves Silicon Valley Data
LA HONDA, Calif.—Naturally, eBay data mining engineer Dave Worthington and his wife, Carolyn, dread weather-related power outages in their sparsely populated village in the...
JVC Unveils “Thinnest” LCDs, TV with iPod Dock
LAS VEGAS (Reuters)—JVC on Sunday unveiled an LCD TV less than 3 inches thick, calling it the worlds thinnest flat-screen television, as the Consumer...
Red Hat Committed to Open Source
BOSTON (Reuters)—Red Hats new chief executive said on Friday that the company will continue to pursue a business model under which it makes its...