CES 2005 news
CES: HP, Panasonic to support each other's DVD technology
Jan. 05, 2005
HP and Matsushita Electric (Panasonic) have agreed to support each other's favored rewritable DVD technologies in some of their respective products, they said Wednesday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in ...
Vonage to offer wireless phones
Jan. 04, 2005
Vonage on Tuesday announced it has partnered with two companies to offer wireless telephone handsets for its VoIP service.
CES: Seagate to launch CF form-factor hard-disk
Jan. 05, 2005
Seagate will begin offering a Compact Flash card form-factor hard-disk drive from February this year, the company said Tuesday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
CES: Sharp shows off 65-inch LC HDTV
Jan. 05, 2005
Sharp Electronics will release a liquid crystal high-definition TV wider than 50 inches some time this year, a company executive said Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where the company will show ...
CES: Logitech to preview 'smart' Harmony 880 remote
Jan. 05, 2005
Logitech on Wednesday announced that it will display the Harmony 880, its new universal remote control, at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The show officially kicks off on Thursday.
EV-DO services, devices highlight CES
Jan. 18, 2005
If it's mid-January, you know it's time to forget about all the holiday stuff and head to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show. Attending CES is like pressing a "reload" button where you forget about all the ...
Staying happy and cool at CES
Jan. 17, 2005
The inside scoop on the best products at the show from SanDisk, Archos, Buffalo Technology and Maxtor
CES: Slush on ground, slush in the market
Jan. 17, 2005
If nothing else, CES underscores the enormous market opportunity for personal technology and small office/home entertainment gear. Savvy business vendors will figure out a way to ride the wave.
Big CES Box of Fun
Jan. 17, 2005
A full roundup of all the cool digital cameras, projectors, monitors, TVs, portable storage, digital audio players and more from CES 2005
Microsoft's Longhorn may blend Tablet PC, Media Center
Jan. 13, 2005
Microsoft plans to drop the "Home" and "Pro" tags with the next release of Windows, codenamed Longhorn, and is looking at shipping a single product that includes the features found in today's Windows XP Media Center and ...
CES: Samsung phones convert words to text
Jan. 12, 2005
For people fed up with pecking out text messages on their mobile phone, Samsung may have an answer. The South Korean electronics maker has developed what it is calling the world's first mobile phones that can convert ...
Consumer show meets net world
Jan. 10, 2005
Beyond the high-end home theater speaker systems, paper shredders, advanced sewing machines and electrical adapters, the Consumer Electronics Show 2005 last week was, at least in part, about taking networks to the next ...
CES: Fiorina shows off HP's '05 wares
Jan. 07, 2005
The "digital revolution" is all about providing users with easy-to-use affordable technologies and products that help them to share their lives with others through media, HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina said Friday in ...
CES: AMD chooses Turion as brand name for mobile chips
Jan. 07, 2005
Advanced Micro Devices Monday is expected to unveil Turion, its new brand for mobile processors in thin-and-light notebooks, company executives said this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
CES: New spec brings video to electric sockets
Jan. 07, 2005
While it can be difficult for technical novices to configure a wireless network, most people have figured out how to insert an electrical plug to a wall socket. The HomePlug Powerline Alliance is counting on that ...
CES: TI's digital TV customers showcase new DLP chipset
Jan. 07, 2005
Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are the first customers to demonstrate digital televisions using Texas Instruments' new 1080p DLP (digital light processing) chipset, TI announced Thursday at the International ...
CES: Broadcom secures WLANs in one push of a button
Jan. 06, 2005
Wi-Fi silicon vendor Broadcom plans to release new Wi-Fi security software that allows users to easily set up secure home wireless networks with access points from Linksys and devices from HP, the companies are expected ...
CES: Sony plans Vaio PC for handling HD content
Jan. 06, 2005
Sony is developing a version of its Vaio RA desktop PC that will have a storage capacity of 1.6T bytes and be geared towards storing, editing and distributing high-definition digital video, company officials said ...
CES: Gates pitches Microsoft for 'digital lifestyle'
Jan. 06, 2005
In his ninth keynote speech at the annual International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bill Gates did not unveil any new Microsoft products, opting instead to promote the company's existing products and ...
CES: Goodbye Comdex, hello CES
Jan. 06, 2005
In just a few years, the giant Comdex conference, a showcase for the latest in computer technology, has given way in Las Vegas to the giant Consumer Electronics Show.
CES: Electronic Arts, Vivendi sign on for Blu-ray Disc
Jan. 06, 2005
Electronic Arts and Vivendi Universal Games, both major game software makers, are due to announce later Thursday their support for the Blu-ray Disc optical disc format.
CES: Home sensors could keep grandparents at home
Jan. 06, 2005
Amid a vast sea of digital televisions, super-thin mobile phones and gaming consoles, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that consumer electronics comprises much more than just digital entertainment. Intel is making ...
CES: TiVo plans CableCard DVR, upgrades
Jan. 06, 2005
TiVo on Thursday announced that it plans to introduce a new digital video recorder (DVR) with built-in CableCard technology.
CES: Samsung announces big TVs, 80-inch PDP model
Jan. 05, 2005
Samsung Electronics announced Tuesday a range of big-screen, flat-panel televisions that make use of some of the latest advances in display panel technology.
CES: BenQ unveils WLAN smart phone with camera
Jan. 05, 2005
Consumer electronics maker BenQ is showing off a new mobile phone with 802.11b wireless networking capabilities and an integrated 1.3-megapixel digital camera with zoom and flash.
