Thursday, 19 January 2012

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES) – 2012 S&D




Las Vegas has dubious distinction of being the den of Great Gamblers. Across the world the name brings images of moneypots being won or lost at the casino resorts of this city.

HiTech is kind of gambling into the newer technologies with projections, business trend studies and not-so-future products. So Las Vegas, hosting CES is an interesting message in itself.


Over the years, there have been great product introductions but at the same pace there have been news that CES has been curse for product companies. Add to it that Apple has never officially participated in CES and this year was the last that Microsoft presented itself in it.


Here I bring at one place, some interesting subjects discussed in CES2012.
If you just want to glance through the subjects discussed and dissected, here is it, without flipping your mouse to numerous pages and uncounted clicks.

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Kids Go Mobile
Vinci, Leapfrog, Playbase, Nabi, Vita. Kiddie tablets are multiplying faster than the kids they aim to teach. They range in price, size, and capabilities, and they're all pretty cool.
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The Impact on Telecommunications Industries of Cloud Computing
How will cloud computing affect the way broadband network providers manage their intellectual property, utilize network resources, and provision new services?
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Planet of the Apps
The proliferation of apps has created exciting new opportunities and challenges. How can you integrate the hottest thing in mobile into your existing offerings? App developers share success stories, explore the pros and cons of free versus paid models, and reveal the secrets behind a viable and profitable app strategy.
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It's Not Just Tech, It's About Aspiration
Tech is not the sell, lifestyle is. Meet a panel of athletes, consumer trend experts, journalists and executives who really get it.
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 The Apps: The Smartphone and Tablet -- Entertainment, News, Music, Games, Location-Based, Communication and Community
Apps are proving to be the most transformative mobile and computing experiences to date. They are user communities and petri dishes for understanding the needs, likes and personalities of modern consumers. Not just an experiential innovation, apps represent a monetization platform with endless possibilities.
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Hypertargeting: Ad Net Words, Ad Serving and Ad Targeting
Consumers know what they want and, thanks to increasingly elegant platforms and software, so do marketers. Now content and advertising partners must refine to its most relevant the information they provide to consumers. Discover how hypertargeting and hyperselecting, from the client and server sides, are delivering a more satisfying, sophisticated consumer experience.
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Landing a Big Chain Retailer
Retailers -- storefront, online and catalog -- are inundated by product companies hoping to sell their wares. How does a product company get a buyer to purchase its products? A leading expert demonstrates proven methods that grab a retail buyer's attention and ultimately close the sale
Karen Waksman (www.productforprofit.com)
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The End of the Couch Potato: How is Technology Motivating us to Stay Fit and Healthy?
While many devices have entered the marketplace, we need to ask whether they are accomplishing what they need to. With obesity skyrocketing, what can we learn from the tech leaders who are helping consumers get off the couch, stay engaged and improve their own health?
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The Personal Cloud and Digital Locker
Consumers increasingly see physical media as an inconvenience, yet early data show they are not ready to move everything to the cloud. Hear the latest consumer research on the transition to the cloud, and enhance your knowledge of the business challenges and opportunities created by the digital locker.
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Connect2Car: Connecting Automotive and Consumer Electronics Lifestyles
By 2017, over 13 million vehicles with connected-vehicle platforms will be sold globally. The big challenge for automakers and the aftermarket will be to integrate new systems and apps into the car as soon as consumers adopt them. How will automakers capture the millennials who consider driving a distraction?
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Taming the Reputation Monster
We've never been as vulnerable to technology's malicious possibilities and human foibles. A cell phone can save a kids' life or destroy it. A tweet can strengthen or wreck a marriage. Now that we carry the Internet in our pockets and on our TVs, safety and privacy feel more elusive than ever...are they?
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Leadership Opportunities for Women on the Web
Online entertainment is filled with strong women leaders, either creating their own series or pushing the medium further through events and educational programs
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IP&TV World Forum at CES
IP delivered TV now Ubiquitous and Pervasive. OTT is now a mainstream delivery mechanism, and broadcasters and cablecos are seeking to harness the interactivity of IP to enhance their services. Multiscreen and On-the-Go TV are now must-have services, and App Stores are being delivered through Smart TVs and peripherals. How will CE companies negotiate the threats and opportunities presented by this rapidly developing market?
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The Social Experience: Personalized Communication, Personalized TV, Personalized Apps, Personalized Commerce
Smartphones and tablets have transformed and redefined how consumers relate to their communications experience: it's now a completely personalized interaction. As consumers address commerce, communication or TV - as apps or as transactions - they are all part of a greater social experience. Phones and computing have been altered forever.
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Advertising Strategy, Expenditure and Analysis: Broadcast and Cable vs. the New Platforms - Broadband, Social Networks, Mobile, VOD and PVR
In this challenging economy, agencies and brand managers need the biggest bang for each buck. Do they choose traditional or new media? How do they allocate among print, TV, cable, broadband, social media, search, ITV and mobile? Explore the advertising choices made in 2011 against tough times and among competing platforms.
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Video: Three Screens and Beyond
Content must stretch across multiple consumer platforms -- Smartphones and tablets in hand, connected TVs and Blu-ray players at home. Track premium video's progress across multiple screens in and outside of the home, and get the inside track on consumer demand and business opportunities at each point in this expanding ecosystem.
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Moving to an all-IP Network: What Does it Mean?
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Leading-Edge Memory Solutions for Next-Gen Mobile Applications
As mobile designs become thinner and lighter, smaller memory form factors are required to power mobile application performance. Discover tomorrow's NAND and Mobile DRAM solutions, with an emphasis on performance, power savings and sleek form factors. Learn about leading-edge memory solutions, including eMMC, Universal Flash Storage, eSSD and eMCP.
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Video Everywhere - Technologies and Platforms - Enabling the Next Generation of Over-the-Top TV
Consumers are accessing video on TV and DVD, over broadband, in downloaded clips and more. Call it "Everywhere Video" or "Over-the-Top Video" -- by any name it means that content is accessible virtually everywhere. See how the proliferation of new TV technologies and cable interactivity are pushing video to an even wider audience.
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Social Television - The Merger of Content, Social Interaction and the Video Platforms
TV and social media have officially hooked up. Shows share viewers' tweets, celebrities encourage real-time interaction, and the online big guns -- Facebook and Twitter -- are intertwined with TV as never before. TV as a social-media community is exploding. See what's next.
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The Hyperconnected Consumer: Mobile Device and Mobile Network -- Integrating the Full PC Experience into a Personal Communications Device
What was considered an absurdity two years ago is a fait accompli: the tablet-smartphone, individually or together, is America's must-have accessory. Its mini-computing platform offers a full range of communication and entertainment: texting, watching content, watching friends, social networking-... How do you define the tablet-smartphone culture, and what's ahead?
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Games on Emerging Platforms: Games on Tablets, Connected TVs and… Refrigerators?
Companies like EA Sports may move toward providing all of their titles for a fixed price on multiple platforms linked by the same social gaming ecosystem. What are those platforms? This expert panel discusses the most promising new gaming devices, from Roku boxes to Google TVs and Apple iPads.
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Untethered Fitness - Mobile Devices and their Apps
Mobile devices and their apps are changing the way we work out, getting us out of the gym and on the road. Our panel of experts will tell us why their devices are giving us more bang for our buck and why "no pain, no gain" is an outdated philosophy.
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Technical Support, Customer Service, and the Lifecycle in the Digital Home
With the rise of complementary, interconnected devices, the need for tech support has grown exponentially. This gives OEMs, retailers and broadband and independent providers an unprecedented opportunity to forge loyalty-driven, long-lasting consumer relationships. Learn about changes in tech support, their impact on customer satisfaction, and the role of the cloud.
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Cameras and Camcorders: Adapting in the Age of Smartphones
The rapid pace of smartphone innovation has disrupted the market for cameras and camcorders in profound ways. Consumers increasingly opt to use their phones to shoot and instantly share photos and videos. Experts size up these new market realities and predict what the future holds for cameras and camcorders
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Infringement, Rogue Websites, and Copyright Crackdowns: How to Catch Tuna Without Catching Dolphins
In response to growing concern about copyright infringement, many urge increasingly harsh government action against "rogue websites" and other unauthorized purveyors of copyrighted material. Others claim that these proposed solutions injure legitimate companies and consumers. Is there a reasonable middle ground? How do we target pirates while protecting innovation and legitimate Web commerce?
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IP&TV World Forum at CES
IP delivered TV now Ubiquitous and Pervasive. OTT is now a mainstream delivery mechanism, and broadcasters and cablecos are seeking to harness the interactivity of IP to enhance their services. Multiscreen and On-the-Go TV are now must-have services, and App Stores are being delivered through Smart TVs and peripherals. How will CE companies negotiate the threats and opportunities presented by this rapidly developing market?
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Essentials of Social Success: Winning Strategies, Tools, Tips and Tactics
If you examine the brands that are truly succeeding at social media, you find consistency in essential philosophy, strategy and tactics. This session features the underlying tenets (as well as specific activities and tools) that almost universally enable success.
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Venture Funding, Investment and Mergers: Leadership in the Entertainment and Technology Space - Broadband, Social Networks, Mobile and Games
Join a group of influential players in the media, entertainment and tech finance worlds for an enlightening look at emerging growth areas in our industry. They reveal where the value and opportunities are, who's investing and whether we're headed for a bubble or sustained hypergrowth in the convergence space.
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Programming Your YouTube Channel to Succeed
Join some of YouTube's rising stars and Premium channel creators as they share some of the best practices that will lead to success and financial rewards on the largest video sharing site on the internet.
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Producers: Being Creative in Producing a Live-Streaming Show
Live streaming shows are all the rage but how do you create a live show that people can't get on TV? Join a panel of IAWTV producers who get the streams out in new creative ways.
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How to Catch Internet Pirates…Without Breaking the Internet
The hottest technology policy issue of the Fall is the debate over how best to deal with foreign "rogue" websites. These sites pose a challenge to US businesses by offering illicit downloads of movies, music and more. Last year, Congress introduced legislation to deal with these websites - but many claim the bills were so broadly drafted as to hamper legitimate businesses and harm the structure of the Internet. The result was an internet-driven backlash involving technologists, VCs, entrepreneurs, civil libertarians, and millions of Internet users.
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Tale of the Tablet
This panel of public- and private-sector representatives will discuss the complexities the technology industry faces as its consumers become increasingly mobile and the measures to keep these devices secure constantly changes. The panel will discuss how manufacturers can continue producing the most up-to-date programs without impeding security. You'll hear from the manufacturers and app developers who are working furiously to create the latest programs to work across multiple operating systems and the government divisions and software security developers who are striving to protect consumers with new security applications. The panel will also consider what responsibility the industry should have in assisting consumers to apply the stringent cyber security measures at home, and how government collaboration or oversight can factor in to the solution.
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Internet Video, Advertising & Marketing: The Next Generation of Consumer Reach
Internet video has finally gained the acceptance of the advertising and marketing industries. Available on a PC, mobile device or TV, and predicted to dominate consumer media in a few years, it's a maturing delivery system for an increasingly elusive audience - just the answer marketers have been waiting for.
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High Tech U
Digital tools and services are turning the ivory tower into High tech U. Preview the innovations that are recharging teaching and learning in the global education marketplace.
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Game On
Social gaming has become a big business almost overnight, with millions of people playing an ever-expanding roster of games through social media and on smartphones. Gaming authorities evaluate the impact on the market for home-based and portable game consoles and explore new opportunities and potential challenges.
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Trends in U.S. Consumer Broadband Pricing
How are broadband service providers changing their pricing strategies? Which providers are implementing cap-and-usage or cap-and-throttle plans? What are the differences between broadband offered by telco vs. cable providers? Is the affordability of low-end broadband tiers threatened?
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Branded Media Marketing - Across Platforms - TV, Film, Broadband, Mobile, Virtual Worlds, Music and Games - Reinventing the Commerce and Media Model
Breaking through the competitive cacophony vying for consumers' attention is more daunting than ever. Find out how the industry's TV, music, wireless, film and broadband marketing/creative teams are reinventing the world of entertainment, branding and marketing, with impressive results.
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Inventing TV 3.0 - Defining the Set Top, Connected TV, Streaming Media Adapter, Downloadable Consumer Experience
The rapid adoption of broadband is bringing streaming, gaming, PC options, interface innovation and overall flexibility to television. Advanced communication, interactivity and social networking comprise the new reality, and consumers want it all.
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The Price Tag for Broadband Universal Service
This session takes a look at the costs of true "universal" wireline and mobile broadband and the impact of the recent FCC order on USF.
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Directing on the Web
Directing content on the web can take many forms: whether using it as a stepping stone to learn the craft to making a career of directing in this new medium.
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High Tech Backpack
"No more pencils, no more books..." Is this old ditty coming true? Millennials are filling their backpacks with the latest digital technology. Peek inside and see demos of the newest device, mobile apps and online services that students are taking to college.
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Portable Power: The Quest for Longer Lasting Batteries
Having to continually recharge batteries is one of the great frustrations of living in the connected world. When will we see cell phone batteries that last days instead of hours? Experts provide a progress report on the alternative battery technologies that are closest to being commercialized.
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Cars Online
Integrating smartphone and wireless-assist platforms into automobile electronics is transforming the connected car. Drivers and passengers have vastly more entertainment and communications options - from hands-free texting to Pandora and more. Our panelists review innovations and options in car technology and their impact on driver safety.
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Digital Health Keynote: How Gaming and Social Media are Revolutionizing Healthcare
With 510 million people playing online games in 2010 and over 10 billion social networking accounts worldwide, it was only a matter of time before we saw them converge. What is it about this marriage that is increasing consumer engagement with life-modifying healthy behaviors yet unseen before, and is it the missing link helping consumers achieve simple, healthy living with better outcomes.
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The Communicator, the Entertainer, the Commerce Engine: The Social Experiential Network and Device
As mobile devices, access and interactivity give consumers a full broadband, always-on experience, mobile technology is transforming into a full lifestyle expression and symbol of consumer identity -- like jeans, sunglasses and coffeemakers. The apps, the devices and the networks combine to empower lifestyles that encompass communication, entertainment and commerce.
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The NexGen Entertainment Home Experience -- From the Smart and Connected TV to the PVR, Set-Top and PC Experience
The next generation of home entertainment hardware, software and services is more complex than ever. HDTV, Internet, games, music, movies, innovative two-way communication and telephony are vying for consumers' loyalty. Competitive companies that offer consumers more and richer content across various platforms hold the perfect formula for success
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Is Technology Changing the Doctor-Patient Relationship?
As preventable medical conditions such as obesity continue to grow so does the need for patient involved healthcare. The doctor-patient relationship is critically important to bridging the gap between passive patients and informed medical consumers. Innovative technologies are the enabling factor for this, but are they succeeding -- and how long will it be before we start seeing significant changes?
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The Gaming Addition: Social Gaming, Apps and Game Networks -- Tablets, Smartphones, PCs and Consoles
For casual and hardcore gamers the growing power of the network is redefining the gaming experience and revolutionizing the industry's bottom line. More robust platforms, greater interactivity and the changing relationship between technology and the consumer have generated more complex designs and broadened definitions of gaming: as product, destination, community and commercial force.
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The State of Consumer Tech Retailing – Can Anything Move the Needle?
Consumer tech retailing has undergone tremendous changes over the last three years. The growing strength of online sales, consumers' ability to price-compare and shop on mobile devices, and ever-shifting category leadership are having a huge strategic impact. A panel of today's brightest retail analysts reveals what's ahead.
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Internet Evolution, Peering & CDNs for Non-Techies
What exactly are Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and what do they do? This session discusses how and why peering and interconnection between networks on the Internet have changed. You'll leave with a better understanding of the general architecture and benefits of CDNs.
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Smartphones: Hot Features and Trends
In the rapidly evolving world of smartphones, which new phones, features and apps will engage the public and open new vistas for the category? A panel of carriers, manufacturers and analysts identifies the hottest features and trends in hardware and software, and we look ahead to the game-changing innovations on the horizon.
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The Mobile Future: M2M and the Connected Life
Wirelessly connected M2M devices in the home can encompass security, energy management, health care, home automation and integrated media. This panel discusses technologies, products and services being developed, as well as the challenges and opportunities ahead in a connected world.
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TouchIt! -- Tablet-Smartphone-Gaming-PC- Roundtable on the Immersive Consumer Experience
Devices are revolutionizing consumer interaction and the creative possibilities for software and hardware developers. Touch screen, motion and immersive computing, tablets, smartphones and TV devices are barely out of the starting gate. If you're an innovator or executive, pull up a chair -- you won't want to miss this.
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Beyond the Flat Screen
The proliferation of screens drives the development of new technologies, but how fast will we see advancements? Experts review the latest advances in screen resolution, viewing angle, sunlight performance and power consumption in an effort to isolate new products and opportunities.
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The Television Ecosystem: Programming, Pay-Services, Advertising and Multiplatform Distribution - Revenue and Strategies
Television 3.0 is here. With integrated PVR, DRV, VOD, broadband, wireless, VoIP and mobile applications, it's the central component of the electronic experience. Gain insights into how media, entertainment and technology companies are competing for the hundreds of millions of global consumers gathered around "the set."
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Smart Cars Talking to Each Other - New Applications Using Vehicle-to-X Technology
Cars soon will be able to talk to neighboring vehicles, traffic lights, even to pedestrians using short-range Vehicle-to-X (V2X) technology, aka "Wi-Fi on wheels." V2X may open new safety and consumer applications for both mobile devices and cars. Find out what opportunities are ahead for peer-to-peer apps in automotive.
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Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth
Cloud computing, which has been growing quietly behind the scenes, is poised to take off as consumers and business users increasingly demand anytime/anywhere access to data, applications and entertainment on a variety of devices. Experts examine this phenomenon, including consumer and business trends and the potential for new revenue streams.
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Smart Appliances: Ready for Prime Time?
Refrigerators  with built-in computers. Ovens that download recipes. Washers and dryers that can be controlled from a smartphone and programmed to save money by operating during off-peak times. Are these products selling, and will 2012 be the year that smart appliances finally catch on?
Merging Content with New Technologies: Content Reinvention with the Next Generation of Tablets, eReaders and Mobile Devices
The content industry can reach countless consumers across multiple platforms in new and scalable formats using innovative monetization strategies and programs. The new generation of eReaders, tablets and smartphones is fostering an ever-expanding universe of content creation, consumption and, ultimately, a revolutionary business model for content creators.
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Is Mobile Making Us Healthier?
Our healthcare system is plagued by endless inefficiencies that cause costs to skyrocket. A myriad of app developers has stepped in, helping consumers manage their own health. How are healthcare providers, employers and tech companies advancing the mobile health movement?
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Shopping with Intel: Virtually and Physically
Mobile payments and near field communications are about to let us purchase goods with a wave of our magic mobile phones. Shopping will become a game with rewards for loyal shoppers. We look at the new meaning of shop until you drop.
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Educators & Entrepreneurs: Next Generation Partnerships
New partnerships are helping to fuel the creation and adoption of technology. But the transition to higher education 2.0 is far from complete. This dialog explores what's working, what's not, what's needed and what new partnerships offer.
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Subscription Wars
Subscription streaming services abound: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and mSpot for movies. Pandora, Rhapsody and Napster  Radio for music, to name just a few. Analysts and content executives discuss the current status and long-term prospects of the subscription market and identify the models that are most likely to prevail.
What's Hot in the Virtual Worlds
Scott Traylor, 360Kid, brings the latest data on virtual worlds - who's making great product and who's making good money. And we'll take a sneak peak at toys for 2012.

Adventure Travel and Sports
We Know Where You Are - Location based technologies free us to take chances we might otherwise not, they let us communicate our whereabouts to friends, and they create social networks of like-minded enthusiasts. We talk with the creators of some of the coolest locators around.
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iPad-Tablet-SmartPhone Advertising - the Premium Advertising Platform
The tablet is giving advertisers a premium mobile partner, with extensive reach to and interactivity with consumers. Tablets complement and reach up into the TV platform and down into the smartphone. Tablet advertising has made smartphone advertising more valuable. In so many ways, tablets are changing mobile advertising forever.
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To 4G or Not to 4G
Now that the major carriers have launched 4G networks, how will they leverage the increased capacity and speed? Will 4G relieve the spectrum crunch or accelerate the need for additional spectrum? Wireless experts assess progress in the 4G market and address how long it will take carriers to recoup their massive investment
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Multiscreen Universe: TV, Tablets, Broadband, Smartphones and IPTV - Strategies for ConnectedTV Technology and Content
The age of "all video, all the time" is here - yet the conversion to an all-video culture was so quiet that the implications are just entering the nation's business and intellectual conversations. Hear from a group of technology and communication experts whose experiences define how the multiscreen universe works.
Writers: Writing Your Web Series 
Many in the Hollywood industry are touting web series as "today's spec scripts". Even with all the DSLR cameras, Final Cut Pro's, and other DIY tools at your finger tips, writing and story crafting remains one of the most vital and yet most overlooked steps in the process. Watch as the IAWTV presents an exhibition version of its Writer Group Workshop as 2 brave IAWTV writers present their web series scripts and receive feedback from both professional screenwriters and executives in the digital space.
All for One, One for All: Showcase of the Best 'Design for All' Products and Services
Strategy or serendipity? "Universal design" means products that are "ageless" -- great for consumers from 18 to 80. Panelists showcase companies that have reaped the rewards of a "design for all" approach and explain how you can apply these lessons to your product development and marketing plans.
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Connecting the Real World with the Digital World: Harnessing the Power of MEMS
MEMS devices - tiny micro-electromechanical systems that provide intelligent sensing and actuation - let us interact with the digital world in ways we could only imagined in past years. Discover MEMS's amazing capabilities and fire questions about motion sensing, user interface control and multiband mobile-phone design with our panel of MEMS industry
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Window to Tomorrow's Connected Home
Smart Grid development has spurred innovation in home appliances, controls and electronics. Companies are now unveiling the next generation of products and devices designed for life on the Grid. The panel discusses what consumers can look forward to in functionality, timing and total home integration.
The Impact on Entertainment Industries of Cloud Computing
How will cloud storage and distribution affect the ways in which content rights-holders manage their intellectual property (IP), realize new cost savings, and implement new business models? This session is a must for anyone working with IP.
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Data Liberation: Making Health Data Intelligible for the Consumer
Consumer adoption requires easy-to-digest feedback systems. What does all of this data mean and how are we going to manage the information? We'll sit down with some of the companies who've made outstanding contributions to making data digestible, fun and, most importantly, something we can act on.
The Power of Connecting: Creating Longevity and Good Health for Silvers and the Businesses That Serve Them
Studies and books like The Blue Zones show us we will live longer if we stay connected to family, friends and community. The same goes for good business relationships. Panelists discuss how successful partnerships for intergenerational learning, accessibility and safety can create new revenue streams. Panel ends with an important message of the power and influence of family caregivers from Caring.com.
Tablets: Where Do We Go from Here?
Nearly two years have passed since Apple released the iPad, and competitors are lining up to ride the wave of its success. Can this amazing growth trajectory continue? What devices are being affected and how? Which services are emerging (or fighting to survive)?
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Electronics Retailing in the 21st Century
Today's successful brick-and-mortar retailer must be innovative and nimble to survive in the fast-paced world of electronics retailing, where change is the only constant. Industry experts share tools and strategies for integrating popular social networking applications, e-commerce and other marketing initiatives into traditional channels. The payoff: capture more consumers' attention and dollars.
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The State of Games Industry
As the gaming business transition to a digital future, industry leaders face strategic questions: What does it take to make a game successful across platforms? What emerging gaming platforms will dominate? How do you make money in a complex gaming universe where new digital platforms compete for customers' time and pocketbooks?
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New Generation of Low-Power Memories Intended for the Smartphone and Tablet Markets and Relative Positioning
We will review the new standards of low-power memories and how they meet the requirements from the smartphone and tablet markets.
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The Future of Enhanced Advertising: Addressing Brands, Message, Technology, Media and Entertainment
As consumers integrate broadband into every aspect of their lives, Hollywood and Madison Avenue have exciting new opportunities to experiment with all forms of electronic messaging. Find out how this quantitative shift in the creative process is transforming advertising, entertainment and the devices themselves.
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Consumer Impact: Case Studies in Quality of Life
Get an inside look at new technologies that are improving consumers' lives and revolutionizing the way we live - in mobile health and disease management. Learn insights from leading healthcare companies on how technology is profoundly altering the landscape of consumer health.
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Making Smart TV Smarter
Internet-enabled smart TVs redefine traditional television in exciting ways, yet the category hasn't built significant market momentum. How connected do consumers want their TVs? Will connected TVs be just another content distribution channel or the hub of home entertainment? Discover what's ahead for this emerging category.
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Next Generation Storage Solutions: UFS Standard and its Features
Get an overview of JEDEC's recently published Universal Flash Storage standard, a multigigabit-per-second, high-speed interface for embedded mass storage and removable mobile device cards. Gain an understanding of UFS architectures and how to approach the UFS standard; how UFS interacts with the MIPI Alliance's M-PHY and Unipro 1.4 specifications; and SCSI.
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Video Anytime Anywhere: Video Across Platforms - Television, Internet and Mobile - Understanding the Value Proposition
At their cores the broadcast and cable industries have always been a video-delivery technology. With video central to how consumers experience their daily lives - whether by broadcast, cable, mobile or broadband - television's video infrastructure is ideally positioned to respond to the way consumers now communicate.
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Defining the Smart-Home Market
After years of false starts and hyped expectations, the connected home has begun to deliver on the promise of centralized control and convenience. How big is the market, and where do smart appliances and energy management fit in? Experts look at the products and trends driving smart-home innovation
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Consumer Demand for Energy as a Service
Broadband has opened the home energy market to companies beyond traditional utilities and energy-service providers. Using data from our Residential Energy Management research service, we unearth the untapped possibilities for providers and manufacturers in the energy sector and share how market forces and consumer demand are creating new, value-added services.
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On the Road, On the Go: Mobilizing Your Product Development Efforts to Keep Up with the Fastest Growing Population Group
Consider this: Seven of the 13 cars you'll buy in your lifetime will be purchased after you're age 50. More "alpha" boomers (age 55 to 64) own an iPad or smartphone than any other age group. Panelists discuss how to grow market share in competitive industries by courting independent, age-defiant Silvers.
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What Makes a Great E-Book?
72% of apps sold on iTunes are bought for kids. Staggering. Our Kids@Play team shares its top apps and ebooks
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The Evolving User Interface: What's Next?

How we interact with computers and personal electronics evolves as button-pushing gives way to voice commands, gesture control and taps, and swipes on a touch screen. What's the next big change, and when will mind control finally enter the mainstream? UI experts share their visions for the future.
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The Future of Tablets: Segmentation, Forecasts, and Implications for Related Products

This session takes a detailed look at the tablets market in 2012-2015, and how its development will impact consumer electronics and related industries. We will analyze demand growth drivers, market segmentation, target demographics and growth forecasts. The session will feature an overview of unique factors shaping demand in developing countries.
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The Content Industry and Digital Distribution: Who's Winning, Who's Losing, and How It Can Work For You

As traditional content providers and gatekeepers struggle to compete with the digital marketplace, consumers are eagerly embracing new streaming services, content lockers and websites that let them manipulate digital content. Explore which new business models work in the new digital environment, who benefits, and what the future will bring.
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Using Music in Your Web Series

Great web series aren't just about having cool video shots. People see with their ears and no music or off-tone music can make a great looking web series feel cheap. Join industry leaders as they discuss the different and affordable ways you can have studio quality music in your web series.
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Working with Brands and Content Creators

Are you a brand looking to deliver your message through web series content? Are you a video producer looking to help brands reach an audience? Join brands and content creators as they talk about what works and what doesn't work in the online video space and lay out the future of brand and product integrations in serialized web series.
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Contextual Media and Advertising: Transforming and Redefining the Relationship Between the Consumer, Advertising and Media Platforms

All media and the information they deliver are increasingly contextual. Some refine messaging more precisely than others, but the personalization of news, commentary, programming, advertising and commerce is plowing ahead. Learn how media, advertisers and content creators are managing a complex universe containing hundreds of millions of individual preferences.
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The Consumerization of IT: How Consumer Innovation Is Influencing Business

To what extent are innovative products like the iPad being integrated into company IT networks? Is it a bona fide trend? If so, what are its ramifications? Panelists discuss the challenges and security concerns of using consumer products in a business environment and identify other consumer products with enterprise potential.
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How to Build A Strong Community of Consumers and Evangelists

Technology is easy, people are hard. Very few companies have the know-how to attract and grow a community of evangelists around their products. Top community managers share their experiences and strategies for building an engaged fan following.
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From 'Me' to 'We' Generation: Acquisition and Retention through Serving Older Customers

Today there are 100 million Americans over age 47. An aging population can produce a windfall for companies, is yours ready to serve them? Panelists discuss the trends in customer service for an older audience, how to acquire and retain an aging customer base, and how to drive revenue.
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Retail Strategy: Going Local - Are Coupon Services Worth the Risk

Groupon, Living Social and other daily deal providers have been a hot topic for the past year. Some businesses have found great success in featuring their services on these sites, while others have lost their shirt or have gotten no response. This session will outline the opportunity and pitfalls in offering photo services as daily deals.
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From Dewey to Digital: Are e-books, Tablets and Digital Content Coming of Age?

Is 2012 the year that e-books and digital content take hold in academe? Or will the printed textbook continue its reign? Casey Green leads a lively, provocative discussion of the promise, potential, and market realities of moving from Dewey to digital in higher education.
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Kids@Play Keynote: The Gamification of Everything

Asi Burak, Co-President of Games for Change, looks at kids and the tools they'll use to design their own worlds. Game-ification is year's buzzword when it comes to raising smart kids. But who said life's a game?
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Adventure Travel and Sports

We Know Where You Are - Location based technologies free us to take chances we might otherwise not, they let us communicate our whereabouts to friends, and they create social networks of like-minded enthusiasts. We talk with the creators of some of the coolest locators around.
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What's Cooking? Technologists Eye the Future of Entertainment

Hollywood gets the credit, but the real work gets done in Burbank, home to Disney, Warner, Universal, NBC, Deluxe, Technicolor and more. What are the best and brightest brains of Burbank developing that will change the movie and home entertainment experience? The Burbank Think Tank comes to CES with an exclusive panel discussion amongst senior-level technology executives.
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Over-the-Top Video, TV, Tablet, Smartphone, PC - Connecting into the Future

Over-the-topTV - television plus set-top, broadband connection and numerous CE devices and services - is removing barriers to the viewing experience. Consumers can now demand from TV the personal and enhanced video services they get from a computer. With all video, all the time, broadcasting and cable are changed forever.
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How To Get a Digital Studio's Attention

Rob Barnett, founder and CEO of My Damn Channel, along with a panel of experts, guide you through the pitching process at a digital studio. From your first submission to producing a web series, this panel will cover tips for the best ways to be seen and succeed as well as an overview of the partnership process.
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Usage-Based Pricing for Broadband Service: What do Providers Anticipate for the Future of Broadband Pricing?

What's a service provider to do? Is tiered/usage pricing the new normal? Where's the balance between QOS for all broadband users and the abusive few? Is it fair for light users to pay the same as bandwidth hogs? Hear from service providers regarding future broadband pricing strategies.
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The Connected Healthy Kitchen

Homebuilders, appliance makers, social and digital media companies, and nutritionists are using technology to make science-based, consumer-directed health a reality. The win is personal health as well as lowered health care costs. The trends present significant opportunities for both early-stage companies and global brands to take part in the healthy, connected kitchen.
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Welcome and The Evolution of App-Enabled Mobile Devices and their Impact on Storage Architecture

Today's tablets and smart phones are only the beginning of for mobile productivity and entertainment devices. JEDEC is driving new storage standards that enable this emerging high-growth mobile computing platforms. Get ahead of the fast-approaching sea change in mobile storage architecture.
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Technology Innovation in Higher Education: Disruptive or Destructive?

Is disruptive innovation improving American higher education - its affordability, access, quality and relevance - or undermining what has made it great? What happens when innovations that sound good in theory are implemented in higher education?
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Finding, Growing, and Cultivating an Audience Online

One of the ways that online entertainment continues to elevate creativity in production is in its ability to directly interact and move to action it's audiences. But where does one find that audience and keep them coming back again and again? This panel offers guidance from some of the most successful audience-builders online entertainment has to offer.
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Usage-Based Pricing for Broadband Service: What do Providers Anticipate for the Future of Broadband Pricing?

What's a service provider to do? Is tiered/usage pricing the new normal? Where's the balance between QOS for all broadband users and the abusive few? Is it fair for light users to pay the same as bandwidth hogs? Hear from service providers regarding future broadband pricing strategies.
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Telecommunications Industry Benefits and Drawbacks of Cloud-Delivered Content: New Opportunities vs. Infrastructure Challenges Keynote

What advantages do cloud-based solutions applied to popular entertainment properties bring to broadband network operators? How does the on-demand, always-accessible nature of cloud-based entertainment delivery challenge conventional distribution systems? Will older distribution methods disappear?
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Retail Strategy: The Business of Video

People love video, but few are do-it-yourselfers. From video-to-DVD transfer to editing to slideshows from stills, there's a huge need for professional expertise. Some retailers have earned huge profits from offering video services. Learn how you can get into the business in a few simple steps.
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Mobile Payment Basics: How the Technology Works

A wireless ecosystem promises to turn your phone into a credit card. How prevalent is this new pay-as-you-go infrastructure, and what opportunities and obstacles exist for retailers seeking to offer a mobile payment option? Learn more about the technologies, including near-field communications, driving the implementation of mobile payment.
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In-Car Entertainment

An exploration of how in-car entertainment, spanning music, video, apps, and more, is being transformed. What are opportunities to be a part of this innovative space? How is advancing technology helping automakers improve the driving experience? How are car owners responding to the new options available?
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Entertainment on Consoles: Reinventing the Media Hub of the Living Room

Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii are the choices of hard-core game fans and families alike, but these consoles can do so much more. Right now they're used to stream entertainment and access other Internet services. What will game consoles do in the future, and what other entertainment services can they deliver?
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Spotlight on 3D Content

Consumers frequently report "lack of content" as an obstacle to widespread 3D adoption, but most industry conferences focus on technical aspects or integration of 3D into consumer electronics devices. Join leaders from the content side to hear of their plans for the future of 3D content to the home.
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Mobile Payment Basics: How the Business Works

The market for mobile payment is expected to grow dramatically in the coming years. How do smartphones work as electronic wallets? How will mobile payments affect retailers, manufacturers and consumers? Key players share real-world experiences and explore the pros and cons of contact-less payment, including security and privacy issues.
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Trends and Technology: HD Video Everywhere

HD video isn't just for Hollywood's elite anymore - the devices are embedded into our smartphones and compact point-and-shoot cameras. Gigabytes of HD video are filling people's hard drives, but what innovations are helping people make the most of this technology?
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3DTV: From Theater to Living Room

As 3DTV evolves the industry strives to stay relevant. First came moves from active to passive to autostereoscopic, followed by extensions into gaming platforms and tablets. Will 3D be the linchpin in living rooms or just another feature? A point-counterpoint dialogue assesses the current challenges, including content quality and content availability and health concerns.
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Product Refurbishment and Reuse in the Developing World: What is its Current and Future Role in the CE Industry?

In developing nations, refurbishment and reuse activities are a major part of local CE industries. How do refurbishment operations meet local consumer demand? How do they affect the environment? Will new, lower-priced technologies put these operations out of business, or could they become global go-to locations for operations like warranty repair?
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Perfect Pitch: How to Successfully Engage with Bloggers and Influencers

Connecting with the people who drive the conversation online is becoming more and more important in the age of digital media. Learn how to successfully reach out and cultivate relationships with the people who are right for your organization and products.
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Green Standards for Consumer Electronics: How Many Labels Will Be Enough?

New green standards for consumer electronic products are coming. Should different types of CE have different standards and labels or share a common mark? Are new labels the best way to educate consumers about green attributes, or are there better options? Manufacturers and green standard developers weigh the alternatives.
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Trends and Technology: Imaging Apps on Smartphones - Good, Bad or a Waste of Time?

Photography apps are one of the top downloads in the iTunes store. They're changing the way we take photos, but are they mere novelties, or the gateway to a truly connected photography experience? Hear how photo app developers are pushing the envelope of technology to create smarter images.
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The Content Industry and Digital Distribution: Who's Winning, Who's Losing, and How It Can Work For You

As traditional content providers and gatekeepers struggle to compete with the digital marketplace, consumers are eagerly embracing new streaming services, content lockers and websites that let them manipulate digital content. Explore which new business models work in the new digital environment, who benefits, and what the future will bring.
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Brands Got Game? How Marketers and Advertisers Can Tap Into the Gaming Explosion

Millions of Americans play games every day, from Facebook's social games to hard-core console games. Advertising, brand and games executives discuss opportunities to reach consumers through games, virtual worlds and social networks. How are brand marketers and agencies navigating this space? What advertising techniques work in games and online communities?
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