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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...
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Comparing 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...
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Packing and planning for CES
Here we go again: Tomorrow morning, I’m going to board a plane and fly to Las Vegas for my 16th consecutive year of covering CES. I should have the packing routine down by now–if you’re going to the...
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Post-CES travel-tech recap, 2013 edition
Last week was a little busy. I flew to Las Vegas to cover CES, walked several miles each day trying to stay on top of show events, wrote and spoke at length about it, ran into Vint Cerf (who, no...
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Trade 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...
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CES tips for rookie reporters (2013 edition)
Will this January really mark my 17th trek to CES? I’m afraid so–I’ve been going to Las Vegas every winter for the annual gadget gathering since 1998. What was then known as the Consumer Electronics...
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CES 2014 journalism-tech report
For once, I made it through a CES without my phone dying. But it was close: Wednesday night, I arrived at a party with my phone showing 2 percent of a charge left. One of the hosts asked if I wanted a...
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Why yes, I did get your CES pitch. Again.
As I started working on this post, my phone buzzed and its screen lit up with a predictable subject line: “Are you going to CES?” Of course it did. And of course I am. This January will mark my 20th...
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Things I have learned from 20 years of CES
January 1998 brought something new to my schedule: a flight to Vegas (Southwest from BWI through Midway) and four days at the Consumer Electronics Show. I’m pretty sure that at the time, I didn’t think...
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CES 2017 travel-tech report: My devices are showing their age
I took the same laptop to CES for the fifth year in a row, which is not the sort of thing you should admit at CES. I’m blaming Apple for that, in the form of its failure to ship an affordable update...
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