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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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New Content Missing From New TV Services - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 10 Jan 2007 03:10 AM PST

Red Herring has a piece bemoaning the lack of new content from start-up producers on the new TV services such as mobile TV and IPTV. “It’s the same content packaged…

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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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Sprint-CableCos JV To Deliver Mobile TV Through MobiTV Service - 1 Comment
Posted By Peggy Anne Salz - Tue 09 Jan 2007 01:19 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: Microsoft Mobile: ‘Welcome To The Party, Apple’ - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 09 Jan 2007 12:52 PM PST

I happened to be in a meeting with Windows Mobile just after the iPhone announcement and couldn’t resist bringing it up. John Starkweather, group product manager for the Mobile &…

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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: Interview: Marco Boerries, SVP-Connected Life, Yahoo - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 08 Jan 2007 10:20 PM 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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Opera Ditches Google For Yahoo Search - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 08 Jan 2007 06:36 PM PST

This is a significant enough move that I wanted to point out separately from Yahoo announcements below: this is the first major switch in the nascent mobile search arena: Opera,…

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Yahoo’s Slew of Mobile Deals At CES: Yahoo Go 2.0, OneSearch; Distribution Deals - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 08 Jan 2007 05:56 PM PST

We mentioned last night about Yahoo’s efforts to revive and relaunch Yahoo Go, its mobile services suite..it has officially announced a bunch of deals today: -- First, it has relaunched…

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Robbie Bach Disses Apple Phone Idea, MVNOs - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 08 Jan 2007 05:52 PM PST

Robbie Bach, the president of Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division (responsible for Zune and Xbox) engaged in some Appple phone dissing today at CES...first, he said that it too is…

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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: Keynote Of Ed Zander, Motorola CEO—Yahoo And Music; WMG Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 08 Jan 2007 12:15 PM PST

The keynote of Motorola CEO Ed Zander was mostly a sales pitch, but that’s to be expected and it’s mostly to find out what one of the biggest handset manufacturers…

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Content Is King, Distributor Is Emperor - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 08 Jan 2007 09:40 AM PST

PCMag has covered the Rush to Mobile Video panel at CES, which included speakers from Fun Little Movies, MediaFLO, Motorola, MobiTV, Sony Pictures, Fox Reality and mSpot. There was discussion…

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CES Day 1 Content Newswire - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 08 Jan 2007 08:09 AM PST

--Nokia’s CES PR includes a tie-in with social network service Vox (part of Six Apart) that will let users of certain Nokia Nseries (the first being the N93i) phones update…

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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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Yahoo Go To Make A Second Go At It: New Version; More Aggressive Marketing - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 07 Jan 2007 10:54 PM PST

It is the CES PR offensive, and Yahoo is hoping to make another go (pun intended) of something that it announced at last CES with a big hoopla, and failed…

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