Venetian

Gambling on the Pocket Casino

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 7, 2011 at 1:34 pm PT

I found one of the more interesting wireless devices not on the show floor, but on the casino floor at the Venetian. Called the Pocket Casino, it’s a handheld device a bit bigger than a smartphone that can be used for real gambling–poker, blackjack, slots, even football. $40 worth of real gambling ensued.

D@CES: What Happens to Twitter's Dick Costolo in Vegas Stays on ATD

Kara Swisher in D at CES on December 15, 2010 at 5:10 am PT

Here comes our second D event at the Consumer Electronics Show, which is slated for January 6 to 9, 2011. D@CES will, natch, be focused on the consumer electronics arena, and the big trends impacting it. On the hot seat: Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and Dean Hachamovitch, who heads the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft.

D: All Things Digital @ CES: Live-Streaming Interviews With Hastings (Netflix), Rubinstein (Palm) and Rubin (Google)

Kara Swisher in News on December 21, 2009 at 8:30 am PT

D: All Things Digital is packing up our wagon and taking it on the road right after the holiday, with a special “mini” session at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Organized by The Wall Street Journal, the interview event will take place Friday, Jan. 8, 2010, at the Venetian hotel. Because space is limited, we will be live-streaming the entire thing on the site, starting 3:30 pm PT and ending at 5:30 pm. On the ATD red-hot seats: Reed Hastings, CEO, president and chairman of Netflix, to be queried by MediaMemo’s Peter Kafka; Jon Rubinstein, chairman and CEO of Palm, talking to BoomTown; and Google VP of Engineering Andy Rubin, who will be interviewed by Walt Mossberg.

Meet "Kevin the Sad PR Guy," Our 2009 Booth Babe

John Paczkowski in News on December 31, 2008 at 12:41 pm PT

The International Consumer Electronics Show will kick off next week shrouded in a nimbus of recessionary gloom. Show attendance is expected to be down eight percent this year, according to Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, who expects 130,000 attendees to flood the convention this year–11,000 fewer than last year.

Meet “Kevin the Sad PR Guy,” Our 2009 Booth Babe

John Paczkowski in News on December 31, 2008 at 12:41 pm PT

The International Consumer Electronics Show will kick off next week shrouded in a nimbus of recessionary gloom. Show attendance is expected to be down eight percent this year, according to Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, who expects 130,000 attendees to flood the convention this year–11,000 fewer than last year.