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It's that time again. This week CES 2009 will begin, and Orbitcast will be there in full force delivering up-to-the-minute live coverage of the world's largest technology event.
With Sirius and XM now a combined company there's no longer the need for two booths at CES (that is, if you consider XM's presence last year even a "booth," despite the hidden technology being incredible cool to see).
Since Directed Electronics and Sirius' relationship has gone sour, they're no longer sharing booth space together as they've done in prior year. Instead, it looks like they'll be utlizing a smaller space in the North Hall. When I last spoke with Mel Karmazin, he mentioned that the interoperable radios will be making a showing at CES - but that was a few months back, so there's no way to know, for sure.
Also absent from the show will be Delphi, which only had a corner dedicated to satellite radio last year anyway (and, I must admit, I'll miss the free beer).
Still, there will be plenty to see.
Last year, a very exciting keynote was delivered by GM CEO Rick Wagoner - marking the first time an automaker executive addressed the CES crowd. And while nothing about satellite radio was mentioned (though there was plenty of talk about OnStar), Wagoner did unveil the Cadillac Provoq concept car - also a first at CES. It was fun, exciting, and very flashy.
This year, the automakers' presence is a bit more humbled (for good reason). Still, Ford CEO Alan Mulally will deliver a keynote address and I'm sure we'll hear plenty about Ford Sync.I'll definitely be attending the the keynote to get a sense of innovation in the industry.
Blaupunkt and miRoamer will be announcing a partnership and unveiling in-vehicle internet radio - for the first time you'll be able to get internet radio in your car's dashboard. That, obviously, is very interesting to me and I'll be covering that in detail.
Also, Slacker will be in town, though off-site from the rest of the mayhem at the convention center. Without a doubt I'll be covering everything that Slacker has to announce.
HD Radio will be there, unfortunately. I'll be covering them as I did last year, under much duress.
There's other unaffiliated events in Las Vegas that I will be attending as well, such as ShowStoppers and Digital Experience, not to mention a Blogger party at The Venetian. At each event there will be several exhibitors related to the digital radio arena, so expect lots of coverage there as well.
I'll be sending live Twitter updates throughout, as well as having a constant 3G connection direct from the show floor (so as to avoid any issues like last year). So strap in folks! Orbitcast's CES 2009 coverage begins on Wednesday (Press day) and kicks into overdrive starting on Thursday
It's that time again. This week CES 2009 will begin, and Orbitcast will be there in full force delivering up-to-the-minute live coverage of the world's largest technology event.
With Sirius and XM now a combined company there's no longer the need for two booths at CES (that is, if you consider XM's presence last year even a "booth," despite the hidden technology being incredible cool to see).
Since Directed Electronics and Sirius' relationship has gone sour, they're no longer sharing booth space together as they've done in prior year. Instead, it looks like they'll be utlizing a smaller space in the North Hall. When I last spoke with Mel Karmazin, he mentioned that the interoperable radios will be making a showing at CES - but that was a few months back, so there's no way to know, for sure.
Also absent from the show will be Delphi, which only had a corner dedicated to satellite radio last year anyway (and, I must admit, I'll miss the free beer).
Still, there will be plenty to see.
Last year, a very exciting keynote was delivered by GM CEO Rick Wagoner - marking the first time an automaker executive addressed the CES crowd. And while nothing about satellite radio was mentioned (though there was plenty of talk about OnStar), Wagoner did unveil the Cadillac Provoq concept car - also a first at CES. It was fun, exciting, and very flashy.
This year, the automakers' presence is a bit more humbled (for good reason). Still, Ford CEO Alan Mulally will deliver a keynote address and I'm sure we'll hear plenty about Ford Sync.I'll definitely be attending the the keynote to get a sense of innovation in the industry.
Blaupunkt and miRoamer will be announcing a partnership and unveiling in-vehicle internet radio - for the first time you'll be able to get internet radio in your car's dashboard. That, obviously, is very interesting to me and I'll be covering that in detail.
Also, Slacker will be in town, though off-site from the rest of the mayhem at the convention center. Without a doubt I'll be covering everything that Slacker has to announce.
HD Radio will be there, unfortunately. I'll be covering them as I did last year, under much duress.
There's other unaffiliated events in Las Vegas that I will be attending as well, such as ShowStoppers and Digital Experience, not to mention a Blogger party at The Venetian. At each event there will be several exhibitors related to the digital radio arena, so expect lots of coverage there as well.
I'll be sending live Twitter updates throughout, as well as having a constant 3G connection direct from the show floor (so as to avoid any issues like last year). So strap in folks! Orbitcast's CES 2009 coverage begins on Wednesday (Press day) and kicks into overdrive starting on Thursday
