CES tips for rookie reporters
My first trip to what was then called the Consumer Electronics Show in 1998 feels like it happened so long ago, I can’t guarantee that my voice didn’t crack as I was introducing myself to people. But...
View ArticleComparing IFA to CES
BERLIN–I’ve been to CES 15 times and I’ve only attended IFA once, so I don’t have an enormous amount of experience with this trade show to compare it to the one that’s been welded to my calendar since...
View ArticleTrade shows may have ruined Las Vegas for me
LAS VEGAS–I’m writing this from a hotel room a little before 7 a.m., and I did not just get back from the casino floor. Instead, I got back after a couple of receptions for the CTIA 2013...
View ArticleThings I did not get around to doing in five days of CES
LAS VEGAS–Another CES is in the books for me. I’m departing a day later than most people, and I still did not have time to cross everything off my to-do list. I’m not going to say I missed all these...
View ArticleCES 2016 travel-tech report: Where did the battery anxiety go?
Something bizarre happened at this year’s CES, my 19th in a row: Neither my laptop nor my phone ever got into the red-line zone that leads me to start frantically searching for a power outlet. My phone...
View ArticleHow I booked my CES lodging (and did not get ripped off, I hope)
No business-travel lodging decision is trickier than CES. The usual affordability of Las Vegas hotels evaporates as properties on the Strip send their rates into the stratosphere for this massive show,...
View ArticleWeekly output: wireless for less, Alexa in lunar orbit, learning in AR and...
I didn’t realize this until adding up the numbers, but I have now covered CES 25 times–24 times in person, from 1998 through 2020 and again this past week, plus last year’s virtual version of the show....
View ArticleBlack Hat pitches increasingly resemble CES pitches
When I’m spending a sunny Saturday in front of my computer, the usual reason is that it’s beastly hot outside. But today I have an additional, also seasonally-specific reason: I’m overdue to look over...
View ArticleWeekly output: Starlink, spectrum coordination, flight delays (x2), T-Mobile...
About one year later than I’d planned, I’m flying to Las Vegas Tuesday to cover the Black Hat information-security conference. Two big factors in my deciding to go ahead with that trip this year: My...
View ArticleConference VOD: one half-decent thing we’ve gotten out of the pandemic
LAS VEGAS The Black Hat security conference that wrapped up here once again left me wishing I could clone myself for a few days. Its info-dense schedule put as many as nine briefings in the same...
View ArticleWeekly output: LinkNYC, Google renews RCS plea, Chris Krebs at Black Hat, 5G...
After a week on the West Coast, including four days in Las Vegas for the Black Hat security conference, I now have two weeks of not going anywhere. Which is good! 8/8/2022: LinkNYC begins deploying 5G...
View ArticleWeekly output: security attitudes at Black Hat, American Airlines bullish on...
With our kid going back to school a week from Monday, this is my last week of day-camp-commute driving for the year. 8/16/2022: As Black Hat security conference turns 25, a lesson: security doesn’t...
View ArticleWeekly output: Qualcomm’s automotive ambitions, MEF Connects USA, corporate...
I went to my last Nats game of the year Saturday–a 13-4 trouncing of the Phillies that reminded me of better days in the past and, I trust, the future. We also had tickets for Sunday, but with rain...
View ArticleWeekly output: Verizon admin-fee increase, mmWave 5G smart repeaters, White...
In addition to the work you see below, I also spent most of Tuesday afternoon volunteering at a vaccination clinic–about a week and a half after getting my bivalent booster at the same clinic....
View ArticleCES tips for rookie reporters, 2022 edition
This January will mark my 25th trek to CES and will be my 26th CES overall, counting the 2021 virtual edition of the show. A quarter of a century of CES practice may not have taught me how to escape...
View ArticleWhat has and hasn’t changed about CES over my quarter century of attendance
LAS VEGAS Wandering past restaurants and bars in a series of casinos this week has stirred up the usual weird Vegas memories for me: not of great meals or fun nights out with friends, but of the...
View ArticleWeekly output: FuboTV rate hike, Varjo, NextGen TV, Washington Apple Pi,...
You can imagine how much I appreciate having this holiday weekend follow CES. I came home last Sunday morning exhausted and with a cold–but fortunately not Covid, as verified by three negative tests...
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