Five important technologies this year

Andrew Nusca: This year's ICES is a wrap, and while many proclaimed its demise due to a considerable reduction in attendance at the event, it was still an impressive display of technological prowess. Simply stated, it's still a foot-destroying affair.

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Intel unveils tablet Classmate PC design
Intel signs up PC makers around the world to create local versions of the new, swivel-screened model of the netbook for schoolchildren.
- Christopher Dawson: New Classmate PC all about 'ecosystem'
Hands-on with Lenovo's dual-screen W700ds
Andrew Nusca: Lenovo’s dual-screen W700ds, or "the beast," as Lenovo informally calls it, may not exactly be portable, it’s a power user's dream machine.
SSD-only business notebooks the 'new wave' of 2009
Andrew Nusca: Business notebooks will soon be all SSD. Or, to quote Steve Weinger, Samsung’s senior marketing manager: "SSD-only is the new wave of 2009."
Hands-on with Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system
Sean Portnoy: According to Iomega's Jeff Graham, the cloud and physical storage can coexist peacefully, and in fact in many ways need each other.
Recession could be good to us, AMD says
Andrew Nusca: AMD's Pat Moorhead says his company is positioned well for this economy,” referencing its new product focus with regard to the current recession.
Hands-on with Linksys by Cisco Wireless Home Audio system
Sean Portnoy: With its past purchases of Linksys and set-top-box maker Scientific Atlanta, Cisco hasn’t exactly been subtle about its intentions to be a major player in the connected home.
Palm's home run announcements
Sam Diaz: The odds are against a comeback but the early word out of Vegas is that Palm has hit a home run with Pre, its newest smartphone, and webOS, its new operating system at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. Palm Pre gallery
- Palm gets in game but doesn't change it
- No ‘touchy feely’ in Palm VIP lounge
- What happens with Palm OS 5 applications?
pureSilicon debuts 'world's slimmest' 1TB SSD

Andrew Nusca: Four of the drives deliver 4TB in the same space as a standard 3.5-inch HDD, so server footprint requirements and energy consumption is reduced.
Toshiba's Cell TV prototype can record six HD streams at once

Sean Portnoy: The company is displaying a prototype at CES that combines a 3,840×2,160-pixel (or 4k) LCD along with a set-top box that can record up to six HD programs at once.
World's highest ultra-high definition LED TV?

Andrew Nusca: Samsung clearly aimed to blow out all the superlatives aimed at its 82-inch TV which sports 3840 x 2160 resolution. But Toshiba appears to have it tied, at least.
Fujitsu's water-cooled notebook

Andrew Nusca: At the Fujitsa booth, the buzz was about the company’s water-cooling technology for notebooks, currently on the Japan-only Lifebook N7010.
Best digital camera announcements so far

Janice Chen: Most camera companies saving their big announcements for PMA but there are some good ones including Sony’s Web-browsing camera, a return of Polaroid, and a beauty from Samsung
Hands-on with Netgear's new streaming media devices

Sean Portnoy: Home networking companies aren't yielding the living room to Web Widgets just yet, as Netgear demonstrated to me this afternoon at the Netgear booth.
Intel recruits big names for its Widget Channel Internet TV

Sean Portnoy: Intel's TV strategy rests upon (though not completely) on getting its Widget Channel platform into new set-top boxes, and it has a few heavy-duty partners of its own readying products. Gallery: Intel's new logos.
Sony adds Internet Widgets, eco Bravia

Along with adding 240Hz refresh rates and its InternetLink features to more sets, the biggest news was a new series of energy-efficient TVs that fall under the new Eco line of Bravia TVs. Gallery: Howard Stringer's keynote
Sean Portnoy: Panasonic introduces 3D plasma TV

Sean Portnoy: Panansonic upgrades its HDTV lines, plus its 3D Full HD Plasma Home Theater System, which consists of a 103-inch set and Blu-ray player that can display separate images for the left and right eyes. And yes, those goofy glasses.
World’s thinnest plasma TV

Andrew Nusca: NeoPDP technology allows an ultra-thin 50-inch PDP just 8.8 mm (or approximately 1/3 inch) thick. It also happens to have the world’s highest moving picture resolution of 1080 lines, too.
Samsung’s 117-strong HDTV 'wings of glory'

Andrew Nusca: Not much to say here except how confident Samsung is in their booth and their HDTVs. See the photos.
Sony announces P Series ultra portable notebook at 1.4 pounds

Matthew Miller: Sony's Vaio P Series ultra-compact notebook has some good specs and an interesting design that may just have me putting my MSI Wind up on eBay soon.
OQO announces model 2+ with OLED and Intel Atom processor

The OQO model 2+ does have an OLED display (seems to be a popular theme at CES this year) and more for a full PC in your pocket.
Ballmer unveils Window 7 beta

Mary Jo Foley: At CEO Steve Ballmer's first Consumer Electronics Show keynote. Microsoft forgets about Zune and focuses on Windows 7, with beta bits now available for download. Gallery
- Ballmer's first CES keynote: "Vaguely satisfying"
- Five things Steve Ballmer won't tell you about Windows 7
Six new Samsung HD camcorders, 64GB internal SSD, YouTube cam

Samsung’s new H-Series of full-HD digital camcorders has been announced. The HMX-H106, Samsung’s new flagship full-HD digital camcorder, is billed as the world’s first to feature an internal 64GB SSD.
- Samsung's new plasma and LCD HDTV lineup
- Samsung's new Blu-ray players and home theater systems
- Meet Samsung’s iPod killer, the touchscreen P3
- New Samsung megazoom, 16.6mm-thick digital cameras [day 2]
Three Pioneer Blu-ray players due in April

The $250 BDP-120 player comes with BD-Live, a 1GB flash drive, fast disc loading, USB expandable memory that includes bus-powered hard drives.
Sharp premieres Aquos LCD, Blu-ray HDTV combo

Sharp today introduced their first AQUOS LCD TVs with built-in Blu-ray Disc players. All-in-one fans unite!

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