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...Comdex, for those non-techie types lucky enough to have never attended, is the annual computer convention, the largest of its kind. It is a vast, sprawling mess that swallows the Las Vegas convention center along with several surrounding hotels (Microsoft, for example, took over twenty floors of the Marriot down the road). Attendance was down this year - from 200,000 to around 125,000. Perhaps it was fear of flying. Perhaps it was the rumor that terrorists were planning to release smallpox at the convention. Perhaps it was the metal detectors and bomb-sniffing dogs that patrolled every entrance...
...writing this column in Las Vegas airport, and believe me, the plane back to San Francisco can't come fast enough. It isn't the slots, the showgirls or even the prospect of a Rat Pack revival at the Sahara that is making me flee Sin City. It's Comdex...
...most popular products at last week's Comdex computer show in Las Vegas...
...VEGAS Every autumn, as sure as leaves fall and sitcoms get canceled, 200,000 geeks descend on this city for COMDEX, the biggest high-tech trade show of the year, to get a preview of next year's whizzy gadgets. We tagged along, and here's what...
...life into their country's sagging economy. Son lured a couple of Silicon Valley veterans to run Softbank Technology Ventures, the San Jose partnership that has become the heart of his Internet empire. And so the shopping spree began, as Softbank scooped up the trade-show group that organizes Comdex, the computer industry's biggest convention, and Kingston Technology, a memory-board maker. Son bought all of Ziff-Davis Publishing and its television and Internet assets for $3.2 billion, a price considered at the time a few degrees north of insane...