Some random thoughts as we enter the final day of the show:
Power Corrupts: The big fights in the press rooms at trade shows used to be scrambling for a computer or phone line connection. Now that many press rooms have gone wireless, the only thing we're fighting for is power connections. Note to organizers -- more power strips needed!
Cleaning up Vegas: The CTIA wireless show is at the Sands convention center, which is a bit smaller than the normal Las Vegas Convention Center where many of the major trade shows occur. At the Las Vegas Convention Center this week? ISSA Interclean 2002, an industrial cleaning trade show. I guess they have trade shows for anything.
Always take advantage of downtime: At one point the entire Sands Convention Center lost its T-1 link, which caused great consternation for the press people trying to update their Web logs (::ahem::), as well as all of the people trying to check their e-mail at the free e-mail kiosks outside the show. For the first time ever, I was able to get near one of those kiosks. That didn't stop one show-goer, who was still at the kiosk plugging away. He figured that if he couldn't get connected to the Internet, there was still Solitaire.
How to tell if you're in over your head (Part 1): At a late afternoon session on the ins and outs of EDGE wireless technology, a slide popped up on the screen with the following sentence: "Direct IQ modulation is sensitive to EVM degradation due to on-frequency coupling." I suddenly felt like Homer Simpson.
How to tell if you're in over your head (Part 2): After the fifth hour of playing Three Card Poker at Treasure Island (and your 7th Corona), you start cheering when you get a pair of 10s.
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