Senin, 28 Desember 2015

Editor's Pick: Looking Ahead to 2016


Rob Enderle
Dec 28, 2015 5:00 AM PT
Next week is CES, and I am so looking forward to coming home from that show. It used to be a lot of fun, but it covers such a massive amount of space that just getting around takes up much of the time. Given that most folks do prebriefings if they are smart, and that most of the really cool stuff is behind closed doors and not on the show floor, every year I question the intelligence of going. [More...]

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