Cloud Computing Software from Eucalyptus. Enterprise Cloud Computing Blog. Cloudscaling. Amazon Web Services Blog. CES: De-CEaSed? - The Cloud - Salesforce. Microsoft, which usually gives the opening keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show, served up a pre-show coup de gras this year: 2012 would be Microsoft’s last year at the show.
The Vancouver Sun summed up the tone of the CES obits: That disparity [between newsorthy products and those that are announced at the show]has been most visible in those years when Apple, which has famously shunned CES, made a product announcement around the same time as the show. Products such as the iPad and the iPhone — both announced at January Apple-only events — became smash hits, household names and industry-changing devices. Bonus points if you remember any products announced at CES the years those products came out.