Dean’s top ten picks for the best of CES - VentureBeat
Mon, Jan 12th, 2009
It’s never easy to pick the top ten new products and technologies at the International Consumer Electronics Show. This year, there were more than 20,000 product from 2,700 vendors across 1.8 million square feet of space. I saw every one of them. That’s right. And these are my picks for the best of the show, in order of preference.
1. The Palm Pre smartphone revived interest in the aging Palm platform...
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brettbum: My new Palm Pre crashed again while on phone w Palm support-recalling smug Palm Developer @CES He smirked at reset button question :)Mon, Jun 29th, 2009 1:14 PM EDT· Reply · View Tweet
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