Word: comdex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gerstner could be a key partner in shaping a future DVD format. In May, through Idei's personal connections with Rupert Murdoch, another Sun Valley buddy, Sony announced it would cooperate with News Corp., Fuji Television Network and Softbank, the Japanese company that owns Ziff-Davis and the comdex computer shows, in a venture to start JSkyB, a 150-channel satellite broadcasting service in Japan...
There was no blotting the bleary enthusiasm of the quarter-million conventioneers who overwhelmed Las Vegas last week for the annual computer hype-athon known as COMDEX. Teetering local phone systems that tumbled nightly at 7, double-booked hotel rooms and taxi lines that lasted longer than a Siegfried and Roy show seemed much less inconvenient when viewed as proof of the rightness of the computer revolution. Surely, the logic went, this many people can't be wrong. Even the sobering news that cash-starved CompuServe (which carries TIME online) was scrapping its failing Wow service didn't spoil...
INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PC COMDEX's hottest technology appeared to do the impossible--import the legendarily clunky Windows desktop operating system to handheld computers from the likes of Casio, Compaq and Philips. The NEC Mobile Pro HPC runs fist-size versions of Microsoft Word and Excel on a 5-in. screen...
FASHION FORWARD No surprise that COMDEX attracted folks who are really attached to their computers. But literally attached? Yup. Rockwell, VIA and Xybernaut each offered "wearable" PCs. Xybernaut's Mobile Assistant II weighs 2 lbs., slips around your waist and runs on battery power...
...more TIME reporting from COMDEX, visit time.com/comdex