Walking into Moscone Center in San Francisco, I was reminded most of Comdex in the Nineties.
Two other companies announced plans to put speech-recognition software onto handheld devices this week at Comdex.
Iris scans and fingerprint readers, however, are not the only authentication options in evidence at Comdex.
"Comdex is a showcase of our abilities, " said a spokesman for Compudyne Winfosystems Ltd.
The 1394 Trade Association, composed of representatives from various companies, will hold forth at Comdex.
If the lights of Las Vegas grow dim around that time, Comdex visitors will know why.
At Comdex next week Be will show version 4 of the BeOS for the first time.
One of the companies visiting Comdex with the Singapore Trade Development Authority was disappointed with his experience.
National Semiconductor originally introduced the WebPad wireless tablet concept at the Comdex Fall show in Las Vegas in 1998.
But Iomega, not to be caught napping, offered its response Monday at Comdex.
The disconnect between the two is part of the reason Comdex went under.
So we plan to come to Comdex over the next few years till Dubai is on every businessman's lips.
Digital and PC cameras are expected to be hot items at the upcoming Comdex trade show in Las Vegas.
Nevertheless, Comdex has been good and we want to come back next year.
But over time, Comdex became so broad, so over-crowded and so unwieldy that it basically collapsed under its own weight.
My one experience attending COMDEX stood in such stark contrast to CES that it informs this post, 15 years later.
Measuring less than an inch thick, subnotebooks -- most of which were introduced well before Comdex -- also stopped traffic.
In his blog, Meckler has compared Fred Rosen , CEO of Comdex producer Key3Media , to the captain of the Titanic.
Comdex was owned by what later became known as the Interface Group, a company that produced conferences and expositions around the world.
The empire: Ziff-Davis magazines, Comdex computer shows, Kingston Technology, all through Softbank.
The tech industry is so gloomy that even Comdex seems downright dour.
Some analysts have said the focus on wireless technology at Comdex this year is proof that the PC hardware show is no longer relevant.
Particularly since the demise of Comdex that it helped to accelerate, CES has been positioned as the launchpad for all consumer technology in North America.
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At the time of that meeting, Comdex was considering creating a show-within-a-show at CES, perhaps taking over the Venetian and trying to recruit 3, 000 attendees.
Fresh off the launch of the Tablet PC that has dominated his Comdex speeches for the last two years, Gates turned attention toward smart displays.
At a meeting in mid-January, 1995, Son made an offer, and the next month Comdex was sold to SoftBank for more than eight hundred million dollars.
PAN, which was demonstrated at the Comdex trade show in 1996, showed how two people could transmit business-card details to each other electronically, via a handshake.
Verbatim will also introduce new 4X-certified CD-RW media at Comdex.
Even Jupiter CEO Alan Meckler has recently started publishing a surprisingly personal blog about Jupiter's effort to launch a trade show to rival Comdex, the troubled annual technology trade show.
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