Posts Tagged ‘ces’

A funny thing happened at Sprint’s CES invite-only event tonight. Online media after online media were conveniently left off the list… after receiving personal invitations.
It’s pretty clear what happened here. Dan Hesse was there, and someone realized that online journalists and bloggers would ask tough questions. PhoneNews.com has lost count of the number of times [...]

I’ve been in Silicon Valley for the past six months, and, well, it’s been a bumpy ride. From apathy to a lot of companies ready and willing to zap our cash at MechaWorks… yeah, the economy is still pretty bad out here.
And, with that, we’ve started looking at other options. One of those, is Las [...]

I didn’t really understand what all the fuss was about, when people told me that covering CES was so physically draining. I mean, CTIA is a three day show, and it fills the Las Vegas convention center, so a show one day longer shouldn’t be a big deal. Oh, how I was wrong…
I have no [...]

You may have already read the open letter that I wrote on CentralGadget.com. You might be asking what broke today?
Well, for starters, our server went down at 5 AM. Just for point of reference, I finally got settled into my room and went to bed at 3 AM. Two hours sleep… so you might say [...]

This year, CES decided to issue some people blogger badges, and some people press badges. I guess since this is my first year directly covering CES, they didn’t see me on the list, and churned out a blogger badge. As you may know, I’ve long resisted referring to PhoneNews.com as a blog. For one, the [...]

Sorry, I won’t be at CES ‘08. I didn’t realize that Macworld Expo and CES didn’t overlap this year (it is the first time they haven’t overlapped… that I can remember right now).
Not foreseeing that, I already locked in other plans for next week… oh well, hopefully this will stick and I can attend all [...]