The folks at Ziff Davis recently announced the cancellation of their 2008 DigitalLife Expo. They blame a slow economy for the cancellation. DigitalLife Expo is Ziff’s version of CES. Unlike CES, DigitalLife Expo is open to the general public. The slow economy excuse is most likely bs. DigitalLife lost its mojo last year when it recieved slow news coverage and bad reviews. According to many bloggers, last year’s expo lacked innovation. Besides a few iRobot product launches, there was nothing
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Paul Gillin and I are running a one day face-to-face event just outside of Boston for marketers and PR professionals, with the goal of educating communications professionals about the new tools and strategies you’ll need to prepare for the new worlds of online marketing. And we’re not alone. Our top shelf lineup includes some of today’s leading edge practitioners and professionals. Here are some of the confirmed speakers for this one day event: Paul Gillin, Paul Gillin Communications C
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“The poor economic conditions have created a very different and difficult dynamic for us this year,” says an email explaining the cancellation of next week’s DigitalLife Expo in New York. But don’t you quit your startup in a panic. Our gadgethound buddies at Gizmodo don’t buy the economy excuse. “We think it’s lack of serious news draw,” writes Wilson Rothman. “Booth after booth after booth of stuff we already covered” at earlier, bigger shows. All I remember from last year was iRobot’s gutter-
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Tech reporters are often caught in tradeshow gridlock: Just as one is ending, another is beginning. This year, the load is lightened a bit by one of them, the Ziff Davis publishing group’s own DigitalLife, getting cut at the last minute. We asked why, but in the meantime, we can only guess the reasons: Primarily, we think it’s lack of serious newsdraw. Last year’s highlights were mid-level at best: iRobot’s Looj gutter cleaner, Palm’s Centro and Gateway’s One. September is already late for com
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Alex Proyas has directed for his adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s work now he is set to tackle Rober Heinlein’ novella The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag. It is story about a man who is not sure of his activities in the day and doesn’t know what he does for a living is getting increasingly disturbed. He tells this to a private detective who tries to find out what he is upto and it leads to a series of revelations. This sort of sounds like a mix of I Heart Huckabees and the Dark City which
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For today, I copied a recent post from my blog.  I apologize in advance since I know that for some of you it will be a repeat, but it is a story that I wanted to share with all of our readers. There really are just a plethora of frightening things that you discover when you are pregnant with multiples, especially higher order multiples such as triplets.  Premature delivery is inevitable with triplets since very few women are able to carry past 32 weeks (the average), so you know from the very
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I and others who have signed up for the iRobot ConnectR remote presence bot Beta Test have received emails from iRobot asking us to take another survey to requalify for the test. My guess is the company — having received more than 10,000 applications — is trying to tailor the test applicants to particular pools of folks, and feels comfortable enough at this point with the product to expand testing. At any rate, given the S-L-O-W testing period, don’t expect a working product before late 2009/e
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Abel Engineering’s status as a disadvantaged minority owned business, its Guard swiss vatican in a state pool of go to contractors and its Pueblo address stacked up in its favor when it came to State Fair contracts. Stuart also recorded six strikeouts and no walks. The Lady Tiger outfield consists of Magan Bailey in centerfield, Jalynn Clark in right field and Johnette Beard in left field. ABRAMS Schapelle Corby has been given another chance. And in the past we have seen Corby’s lawyers pro
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Gotta love Gapingvoid. On that, whilst I love my OS X and am desperate for a full-blown mobile device, I just can’t get my head around the iPhone. Not sure what it is. The functionality’s awesome but the interface with (and I’m already expecting abuse at work for this) all these big icons is just a bit in my face. And perhaps it’s also because there’s just one version of it and so little or no differentiation. Hence I hope Android soon gets released. Hopefully it’ll also nicely sync with a M
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I have to agree that it doesnt cope well with thin rugs etc but after a slight re arrange of speaker cables rugs etc, the Roomba now tackles most of my house without getting into Tool concerta. And I’m sure I can stretch to emptying its holder every day. They’re taking over i tell you. Yet only the Electrolux was impressive at cleaning carpets our toughest test and the type of cleaning vacuums typically do most. Dyson DC The Ball Vacuum Cleaner Review. So is it correct to say that personality
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