CES

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The company making the biggest splash at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week was not even there: Apple Computer Inc., which debuted its highly anticipated multimedia iPhone at its Macworld show.

While all eyes may have been on San Francisco and the launch of the developer-unfriendly Apple iPhone, the real game changers were demonstrating their strategy at CES 2007, in Las Vegas.

Only a few months after Blu-ray and HD DVD hit the shelves, the Blu-ray Disc Association has the audacity to declare Blu-ray victorious as "the premiere high definition DVD format of choice".

Lauched during Motorola CEO Ed Zander’s CES keynote speech, Yahoo wants you to get excited! Their ‘Go’ mobile service gives phones an information rich web portal designed for small screens and seemingly giving you the information you want quickly and efficiently with as few clicks as possible.

It's official; we're gonna need a bigger lounge room.

Bill Gates presented what could well have been his second last CES keynote earlier today. Among the offerings were previously undisclosed Vista and Vista Ultimate features, the latest PC, Tablet, UMPC and smartphone designs, Xbox 360 advances in games and IPTV, a new Windows Home Server, some details on the Ford and Microsoft Sync collaboration and a glimpse into the connected home of the future. Bill Gates’ dream of the connected home and the connected life is slowly coming true through Microsoft software and hardware.

Microsoft’s first response to the wave of Xbox 360 Zephyr rumors is no different to the response Apple gives when asked about new products: an elaborate ‘no comment’. Details within…

Battery life is always the first feature to get compromised in most ultra-portable PCs -- as soon as you add either a hard drive or a wireless connection, your available power evaporates like clothes from a stripper. Can Seamless Internet's S-XGen ultramobile break the curse?