Of course, we wouldn’t dream of concluding the first day of CES without a conversation with Gary Shapiro. The CEA’s president will talk about all that goes into such a massive undertaking, discussing changes, show predictions and how the future of the industry will shape the Consumer Electronics Show.
Check out our full CES 2013 stage schedule here!
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Own a smartphone? There’s a pretty good chance you’re carrying around a Qualcomm chip, as well. SVP of product management, Raj Talluri, will be joining us on stage to demo some of the The Snapdragon-maker’s latest and most exciting technologies. Following along live by clicking through after the break.
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Looks like the Mondo Spider isn’t alone in this world, after all. Turns out the folks over at eatART have designed him a robotic reptilian friend. We got a quick demo of the truly awe-inspiring Titanoboa, a 50-foot snake with a giant opening jaw. The serpent came into being last year, and while it isn’t quite ready done, it’s at least finished enough to slither the Los Vegas Convention Center parking lot, just outside of our trailer. Future updates should help old Titanboa with its sidewinding dreams. Check out its current state after the break.
Gallery: eatART’s Titanoboa
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Yes, we’re back in magical Las Vegas. And while it was tough getting it through airport security, for the second year in a row, we’ve brought our stage with us. Starting Tuesday, we’ll be spending the week talking tech with some of CES’s biggest and most innovative companies. You can lock into an on-going livestream of the week’s events after the break and check out a full schedule of interviews just below that (Note: All of the below times are listed in ET).
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Peter Chou has gone on the record with the Wall Street Journal blaming his company’s rough financial performance last year on insufficient marketing. Speaking about HTC’s competitors, and presumably about Samsung in particular, he described them as “too strong and very resourceful, pouring lots of money into marketing.” He was candid about the fact that, relatively speaking, he doesn’t have a great deal of cash at hand to counter rival publicity, but instead puts his faith in having more “unique products” — possibly referring to phones like the 1080p Droid DNA. Overall, he said that the “the worst for HTC has probably passed” and that 2013 will be “not too bad.” Which is about as cautious as optimism can get.
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You’ve probably already seen Samsung‘s infamous iPhone-mocking TV advertisement that pokes fun at the Apple fanboys waiting in line for the next iPhone, yet Samsung touts that “the next best thing is already here.” The ad ended up being named the most viral tech ad of 2012, but what does Apple CEO Tim Cook think about it? During his first TV interview since becoming CEO, Cook sat down with NBC‘s Brian Williams to discuss competition.
On last night’s Rock Center with Brian Williams, the host brought up Samsung’s TV ad and asked Tim Cook if the battle between Apple and Samsung was “thermonuclear war.” Cook subtly dodged the question by mentioning that the company “loves competition” and that “it makes us all better.” However, Cook made a quiet jab at Samsung by saying that he “wants people to invent their own stuff.”
Cook also addressed one of the main themes of the Samsung ad, where Samsung poked fun at the Apple customers and fans who were waiting in line for the next Apple product, while Samsung users were nearby showing off their Galaxy S III smartphones. Cook simply stated that the company loves its customers and that they’ll “fight to defend them with anyone.”
The entire two-part interview with Tim Cook is available now for viewing on NBC‘s website. We’ve already covered a couple of the talking points yesterday, including Apple’s plans to start manufacturing Mac computers in the US beginning next year, and that the television is something of “intense interest” for the company.
Apple CEO Tim Cook talks competition, addresses Samsung ad is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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January 30th, 2013 marks the beginning of a new era for RIM. It will put to rest those doubters who questioned whether the company could survive long enough to complete its painful transition away from BlackBerries past and onto BlackBerry 10. The question then becomes what the market will do with this wholly new OS — whether RIM can be more successful at regaining its former smartphone stature than Microsoft has thus far proven to be with its own mobile OS reboot. If there’s one person who has put more thought into that situation than any other its RIM President and CEO Thorsten Heins, a man who will be celebrating something else in January: his first anniversary at the top. How has culture changed at RIM over that year and what can we expect from the company in the weeks and months to come? Answers to those questions and more in our full interview below.
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We just had the opportunity to sit down with Design Head Peter Skillman here in San Francisco and get the lowdown on all things Nokia Here. A lot has changed since we interviewed him at Nokia World last year, including the launch of Windows Phone 8 and new Lumia devices. We talked about what Nokia Here brings to the table including LiveSight (a whole suite of applications including Drive, Walk and Public Transportation), the here.com full 3D WebGL experience and the Earthmine acquisition. Still, it’s the cross-platform aspects of Nokia Here — Android, iOS and Firefox OS support — that intrigued us the most, so we asked how this affects the company’s Windows Phone strategy (if at all). Join us for the full interview above.
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If there’s one thing we love about the current state of mobile devices, it’s the innovation that’s being ushered in by forward-thinking brands like event-specific handheld device group FanVision. With the FanVision Controller, these folks are bringing in in-depth information about the event they’re covering with a device that’s interactive, not just a tiny display, and connected to their data source via UHF. Believe it or not, the signals they’re working with are an older technology than the mobile data your smartphone uses, but here at each live event they work with, it works one whole heck of a lot smoother.
We had a chance to speak with FanVision’s VP of marketing mister Kevin Weinhoeft who was quick to tell us that the easiest way you can describe this device is to imagine you were at home watching the big race with a taste for all the data you could swallow in and around the track. You’d have to have your television, a computer, a radio, and maybe even your smartphone to get the same content you’re able to get sitting at the live event with a FanVision Controller. The first person he told this story to made the case: “you must have been in my living room last time I watched a race, that’s what I was doing exactly.”
This device has live statistics, live cameras, and replays of events on the track right after they occur. UHF connectivity makes the dedicated network at the track possible and isn’t interrupted by the massive amounts of data being blasted around with everyone else’s smartphone. Weinhoeft spoke on how the device was made also to be relatively rough and tumble, too, not fragile like a smartphone or a tablet.
“FanVision was designed to work in the elements. Whether it’s really cold weather or whether it’s really hot weather or whatever else. Now it’s not waterproof, by any stretch of the imagination, but – we’ve had a lot of races where there’s rain or moisture or whatever where of course we don’t have any issue with the device going down because it’s getting a little bit of rain on it.” – Weinhoeft
Everything you look at when you’re at a race on the FanVision device is curated by the dedicated FanVision staff at the race. FanVision works with the cameras that are on-site and the information that comes direct from the source, updating every statistic and element as it changes.
“We’re not doing any kind of production, we don’t have people with cameras that are in the pits or in the garages or anything like that. We’re taking content directly from, as an example, in Phoenix, we’re taking the SprintVision content that’s being fed to the track. So we’re not – in essence – taking ESPN’s content. And as a matter of fact, the radio broadcast for this weekend will be MRN. So if we’re at an IFC track, it’s MRN radio, and if we’re at an SMI track, then it would be PRN radio.”
Then there’s the video – from the on-track cameras to the in-car cameras, you’ll be getting more up-close-and-personal than you’ve ever been before, right on the FanVision Controller device. Weinhoeft makes it clear that the content they’ve got here is everything you’ve ever had on your television at home, the smart device in your pocket, and more – and right as it happens.
“The one thing, of course, we have is the live race. The second thing that is constant is that we have the fastest instant replay that’s in production. What does change from race to race is the in-car cameras. We do have 8 in-car cameras for a cup race and typically for nation-wide as well. So the in-car cameras can change. As an example, last week, all of the in-car cameras for Cup were chase drivers. That’s how the content can change from week to week.
One of the other things you’ll see on the device is Driver Cards. Basically all the details about the drivers. All the information on the drivers is updated in real-time as well. So lets say, as an example, maybe the driver had a crew chief change. If the driver would have a crew chief change, then that data would change inside the Driver Card.
Another thing that would change is on the Twitter Feed. We have specific Twitter feeds on the device, but as we move from track to track: this weekend it would be the @PhoenixRaceway handle. as opposed to a track from earlier in the season.”
Then there’s the digital scanner – made to let you in on the radio feeds that are blasting back and forth across the track between crew chiefs and racers. Right out in the open, there for you to catch. If you’d love to get in just about as close as you possibly can without literally being in the pits (like SlashGear’s own Vincent Nguyen will be this weekend, mind you, at the Advocare 500 Sprint Cup Series race), you’ll need to listen in to the words being spoken by the crews using your own lovely radio scanner – built right in to the FanVision Controller.
“One of the biggest features on the device is the scanner. Because it’s digital, there’s no frequencies the fans have to program in. So they just select their drivers and they go.
The thing that goes with that, too, is instant replays. So you can listen to the last conversation between the driver and the pit. So as an example, something happens on the other side of the track and the drivers’ got to go to the garage, well, you can go to that driver’s Card and you can listen to their last conversation.”
We’ll be having a look at this device when we’re live at the Advocare 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup race this Sunday as well as the following schedule of in-person events:
1. Pace Car Ride at speeds of 120+ MPH
2. Tour of NASCAR garage
3. Driver’s Meeting
4. Meet and Greet with General Motors Racing’s Chevrolet program manager for NASCAR’s top-tier Sprint Cup Series Alba Colon
5. AdvoCare 500 race (312 laps, 312 miles) Sunday, Nov. 11, 3 p.m. ET on ESPN with LIVE coverage here on SlashGear from Vincent Nguyen!
Be sure you check out the SlashGear main news feed and our Twitter as well @SlashGear to stay up-to-date on all things technologically awesome in the automotive universe! Have a peek at our brand new NASCAR tag as well to keep crusing on this particular track!
FanVision displays NASCAR live event action over local network UHF is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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