Topic: Live commentary from CES 2009 events
Betanews' CES team is on the ground at literally all the major venues this week. Keep checking back to find out what's new, when it's new.
So has the nation's transition to digital television gone completely off track, and is it time for the incoming Obama administration to call time out? Kevin Martin, Chairman of the FCC, speaks directly to CES 2009.
Posted January 10, 2009, 4:30 PM ET
It's not necessarily the PC processor company any more, as Intel's Atom processor for netbooks, and its media processors for CE media equipment, take more of a starring role at CES.
Posted January 9, 2009, 4:02 PM ET
Last year, the Blu-ray press conference was all about how the format was beating HD DVD. With its direct rival now gone, the format needs to show at CES 2009 how it will overcome other adversaries: price and streaming content.
Posted January 8, 2009, 6:42 PM ET
With perhaps the entire company on the line, Palm has one more shot at glory with the likely introduction of an entirely new smartphone line.
Posted January 8, 2009, 2:19 PM ET
Its enterprise brands have all been succeeding quite nicely -- Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, Office, SharePoint. But in the consumers' mind, Microsoft took a beating last year. How will Ballmer recover?
Posted January 7, 2009, 8:49 PM ET
It's Sony's answer to the netbook: its latest very slim P-series Vaio. But even that is taking a backseat to none other than Jeopardy!, another Sony property, complete with Alex Trebek live and in person.
Posted January 7, 2009, 7:41 PM ET
No longer "Matsushita," and given a big boost with the pending acquisition of Sanyo, how will the world's most recognized brand in consumer electronics, geographically speaking, react to this sluggish economy?
Posted January 7, 2009, 5:46 PM ET
In an era when HDTVs are being measured in terms of pinky-width, Samsung promises to squeeze that figure even more, while adding new interactive features to its displays' built-in IPTV functionality.
Posted January 7, 2009, 5:19 PM ET
Known worldwide as an infrastructure company, Cisco now plays a bigger role in the CE field for being the parent of major consumer router manufacturer Linksys, and for finding its way into the IPTV infrastructure.
Posted January 7, 2009, 4:00 PM ET
Toshiba's press conference at CES 2009 this morning featured announcements in the areas of LCD TVs, DTV/DVD combos, and standalone DVD players.
Posted January 7, 2009, 3:03 PM ET
Speaking to an overflow crowd in Las Vegas Wednesday morning, executives from Korean CE giant LG Electronics were expected to highlight built-in Internet connectivity in new HDTVs.
Posted January 7, 2009, 11:45 AM ET
UPDATED At a press conference at CES 2009 Tuesday evening, Asus introduced the Eee 131, its first netbook with a built-in 512 GB hard drive. Asus has been working closely with Microsoft, so that it will run Windows 7.
Posted January 6, 2009, 6:38 PM ET
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