karl
January 8th, 2013, 02:55 PM
Pity the poor tech journalist. Every January he - it's usually a he - has to go to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show. Pressed among hordes of people who actually work in the world's most innovative industry, the media is forced to traipse the marbled halls of the Mandalay Bay and the Venetian Hotels, stopping only to queue for a free lunch, and listen to top executives from major corporations such as Samsung, Sony, Panasonic and Intel spoon-feed them the latest news.
So arduous is this traumatic experience, some new media have had to write explanations of why they're not making the trip. They say that software matters more than hardware now, and the products that were announced in previous years have typically died a barely noticed death or failed to appear at all.
See full story here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/ces/9789072/CES-2013-why-the-worlds-biggest-tech-show-still-matters.html
So arduous is this traumatic experience, some new media have had to write explanations of why they're not making the trip. They say that software matters more than hardware now, and the products that were announced in previous years have typically died a barely noticed death or failed to appear at all.
See full story here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/ces/9789072/CES-2013-why-the-worlds-biggest-tech-show-still-matters.html