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@ CES: Sling Media Generates Buzz On The Floor - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 11 Jan 2007 11:32 PM PST

A change in my 6 a.m. travel plans—I swear, I only had one glass of wine at BlogHaus—gave me a few hours to spare in Las Vegas and a chance…

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@ CES: PodTech’s Bloghaus: To See It Is To Believe It - 6 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 10 Jan 2007 11:30 PM PST

As I write, I’m at one end of a vast conference table strewn with cables, laptops in every size and make, and enough cameras to set up an eBay shop.…

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@ CES: Nothing Beyond Belief But A Lot Of Potential Realized - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 10 Jan 2007 11:10 PM PST

Walking the floor Wednesday afternoon was like playing a game of “I Spy”—acrobats, a macro Zen Micro, air guitar players. But what caught my eye tech-wise?  Screens, for one. The…

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@ CES: Another Stop On The Executive Circuit - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 10 Jan 2007 10:42 PM PST

Media and entertainment execs have been here in full force. A News Corp. contingent led by Rupert Murdoch and including Peter Chernin and Peter Levinsohn, toured the floor Tuesday morning,…

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@ CES: Living The Good Life At The Zune Lounge - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 10 Jan 2007 03:34 PM PST

Don’t know if it was intentional but Microsoft, which has its usual massive presence in the central hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, created a Zune lounge in the…

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Interview: Leslie Moonves, CEO, CBS Corp. - 8 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 09 Jan 2007 11:45 PM PST

While the crowd at MacWorld was waiting for the gospel by Steve, I was backstage during the Michael Dell keynote chatting with another man wearing a black turtleneck: Leslie Moonves,…

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@ CES: More On CBS Interactive Deals: Virtual Star Trek, Video Sharing—And Clipping - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 09 Jan 2007 08:20 PM PST

While CBS CEO Leslie Moonves was sharing the CES stage with what he called in deadpan fashion “the Angelina Jolies and Brad Pitts of the interactive world,” the company announced…

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@ CES: The Moonves Equation: CBS + YouTube + Sling + Second Life - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 09 Jan 2007 06:23 PM PST

I’m at the CBS keynote behind a batch of CBS execs, sandwiched between Sling Media’s Jason Krikorian and Jason Hirschhorn. CEO Leslie Moonves quickly got to the purpose of this…

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CES Newswire Day 3: Zune Games; AOL Music; USBTV; MSN Direct HD - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 09 Jan 2007 05:49 PM PST

-- Zune to Add Games By Next Year: Microsoft will introduce video games for its Zune music player within 18 months...Peter Moore, a VP in the company’s Xbox business said…

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Sprint-CableCos JV To Deliver Mobile TV Through MobiTV Service - 1 Comment
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Tue 09 Jan 2007 02:25 PM PST

If Verizon is launching its service, and Apple is announcing its phone, why should others be left behind: The Sprint-Cable Companies Joint Venture is gearing up to extend the video…

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@ CES: Interview: Marco Boerries, SVP-Connected Life, Yahoo - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 09 Jan 2007 09:47 AM PST

This time last year, as Yahoo announced its Connected Life strategy with Tom Cruise and Ellen DeGeneres on hand, Marco Boerries took the stage to introduce Yahoo Go, most notably…

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@ CES: Iger Keynote: Disney.com Relaunch Plans; Piracy Of All Kinds - 5 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 08 Jan 2007 10:09 PM PST

Disney CEO Bob Iger’s keynote is underway, kicking off literally with an intro for “Monday Night Keynote.” Only a few minutes in and we’ve seen a snippet of an upcoming…

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CES Newswire Day 2: MotoMusic; Real-Tivo; Tivo-Comcast; VongoTV - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 08 Jan 2007 05:31 PM PST

Day two of the CES craziness has just begun: -- RealNetworks Ties Up With TiVo, Nokia: Deals with Nokia; TiVo, and Reigncom, which makes the iRiver music players, are all…

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@ CES: Viacom Brass, Elvis, More Make The Flickr Stream - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 07 Jan 2007 11:38 PM PST

You never know who or what will show up in our CES photos. Neither do I—some pictures that look great on the small camera LCD turn out to be downright…

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@ CES: The Microsoft Keynote Hell & Some Content Deals - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 07 Jan 2007 09:05 PM PST

I expected to be in line hell before the Bill Gates keynote – they did try to make it better this year by changing venues and serving beer and wine—but…

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CES Day 1 Content Newswire: AOL-Bravia; BitTorrentTV; CinemaNowPMPs; LG Combo; UrgeToshiba - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 Jan 2007 06:22 PM PST

CES has started in earnest today and Staci is on the ground there...here’s our full dedicated coverage of things that matter. Some bits of news coming out of the show…

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@ CES: V Cast TV Launching Q1; Composite Channels, Some Simulcast; FiOS Next Gen - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 07 Jan 2007 02:12 PM PST

It’s a clear, bright, chilly Las Vegas afternoon and a couple of hundred people are sitting in a blacked-out pseudo TV studio watching Verizon roll out the next phase of…

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@ CES: Let The Games Begin; Storage, Connectivity, Movable Content Among Key Players - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 07 Jan 2007 01:06 AM PST

This is my third Consumer Electronics Show for paidContent.org and my fourth overall. (Yes, I know I’m a pretender compared to a lot of you true CES vets.) So am…

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Sling Media To Launch Its Internet To TV Video Device/Service SlingCatcher - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 06 Jan 2007 01:46 PM PST

There have been speculation on this service ever since the company filed some patents earlier last year, and at CES next week, Sling Media will announce its official plans for…

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Microsoft’s Bach Is At The Center Of “Connected Entertainment” Strategy; Gates Wants More—Faster - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 04 Jan 2007 10:34 PM PST

It’s as traditional as the Bill Gates keynote on the eve of CES: the careful parceling out of interviews and tidbits. The latest but surely not the last installment is…

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CES 2007: Heading To Las Vegas—And Uncertainty - 3 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Thu 04 Jan 2007 09:53 PM PST

I’m not the gambler in my family but I’ve already won one roll of the dice: checking for rate changes a few times brought me an affordable (for CES) room…

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