CES

That CBS/CNET/Dish Story Won’t Go Away

Peter Kafka in Media January 31, 2013 at 12:22 pm PT

Pebble Smart Watch Starts Shipping (Well, Less Than 500 of Them)

Liz Gannes in Product News January 23, 2013 at 7:45 am PT

Dish Toots Its Own Horn, Since CBS Won’t

Peter Kafka in Media on January 20 at 1:46 pm PT

And the New York Times is happy to help.

Overheard at CES

It’s metadata-powered evolutionary media and entertainment.

– From “Overheard at CES: Mumblings of the Tired and Extremely Nerdy,” on The Verge

Voices

CBS Quashes CNET Award for Dish’s Ad-Skipping DVR

Keach Hagey, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on January 14 at 2:38 pm PT

CNET disclosed Monday that it had originally picked Dish Network Corp.’s controversial ad-skipping device to receive its top award at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, before CNET’s parent company, CBS Corp, forced it to reverse course.

Voices

Internet of Things: Hype or Reality?

Anders Gustafsson, CEO, Zebra Technologies in Voices on January 14 at 9:30 am PT

The market for Internet of Things is said to be in the billions of dollars.

Sinofsky Comments

I have owned every iphone released (and every ipad and galaxy and kindle). It is far better to actually use a product day in and day out so before CES I started using it and will use it for a month or so. Just prior I was using my 920. In Office I spent a long time using SmartSuite or Google Docs for the same reasons.

– Steven Sinofsky, commenting on a post by Bijan Sabet, entitled “Why Don’t Microsoft Alumni Use Their Own Products?”

This Year You Don’t Have to Work at Microsoft to Get Steven Sinofsky’s Take on CES

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 13 at 3:17 pm PT

The former Windows boss just published his trip report for CES, offering his observations on what was hot — and not — at the just-concluded trade show.

Voices

CES Is So Infectious (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on January 10 at 1:30 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.

Voices

Gangnam Bandwidth, American Style

Blair Levin and Ellen Satterwhite, Gig.U in Voices on January 9 at 3:07 pm PT

For most Americans, five years from now, the best network available to them will be the same network they have today.

Windows 8 Tallies 60M Licenses, on Par With Windows 7 Rollout

John Paczkowski in News on January 8 at 4:15 pm PT

Note: 60 million Windows 8 licenses does not mean there are 60 million Windows 8 machines in use today.

News Byte

“Internet of Things” Companies Band Together

Liz Gannes in News on January 7 at 4:05 pm PT

“The Internet of Things” might not be not as flighty as it sounds. Smart-gadget makers today announced at CES they are creating the Internet of Things Consortium to promote their emerging industry and discuss best practices. Founding members include Active Mind Technologies, BASIS Science, Coin, Kease, Logitech, MOVL, Ouya, Poly-Control, SmartThings and Ube.