CeBIT cease yesterday , and I ca n’t say I miss it . [ Ed tone : It ’s still going on , I just did n’t detect , sorry . ] Most significantly , the product lines were fragile . Secondly , there was a ecstasy strike on the carnival ’s first day . And , there is , plain , a shortage of prostitutesin Hannover , a definite trouble for the whore - peddle tech pressure corps . ( You cognize who you are . ) The last time it was important enough to assist was several year ago , and I ’m not sure we ’re ever going to this show again .
A pair of calendar week back , I started checking travel websites to see how much it would cost to get there . It was $ 925 and I would have to fly via Mallorca — a journey of over five hours , excluding check - in clock time . On top of that , you ’ve stimulate two night in a hotel , plus disbursal . We were looking at pay out around $ 3,000 , then , for a sidereal day and a one-half tops at the carnival . No bango , and mucho bucko .
So , I e-mail Dieter Jirmann , one of the writers onGerman Gizmodo . Was he locomote ? He reply the next day .
As far as I know no one from Giz Germany will be in Hannover , so sorry — perhaps better hazard at this year ’s IFA where we can perhaps fix up something beforehand .
If you need any advice for Hannover though ( Germany ’s capital of really regretful music — Scorpions are only the crown of the iceberg ) please just let us know — we are all ex-serviceman of subsist CeBIT .
That was it , I ’m afraid . If the Scorpions live in Hannover , then it ’s a deal - ledgeman . And if author based in Germany were n’t even going to go , was there any point in time in us schlepping all the way there ?
Some people , however , did think it was worth it . Ballmer turned up to advertize software that displays your electricity consumption on your microcomputer , a tie-up - in with German energy supplier Yello Strom . Eff that , Steve , pronounce the journalists at the closet group discussion , we need to talk to you about Yahoo .
Greenpeace held a press league to say that some of the tech companies were * pats heads patronizingly * doing better on the immature front , but there was still way for betterment . CeBIT ’s organizers , who had spent so much meter and Department of Energy promoting the green side of technology , were give grave their head when just a handful of journos get at to park their arses on the chair to listen to the charity ’s speech .
Sadly for CeBIT , the tangible news has number from the law ’s anti - piracy bust . Fifty - one booth were foray into , include that of Meizu , whose portable MP3 histrion was the culprit , rather than its iPhone doppelganger , the Mini One smartphone .
Last year’sCeBIThad stuff going on , the sinister Blu - beam of light organization saying they wouldown the worldin just three years , plus a flock of interesting geared wheel . And get ’s not forgetthe laydeez , either . But this year , what has go on ? hand - on with the Meizu , Asus ’ UMPC and a clustering of Samsung printers — and we ’re talking emended highlights here .
https://gizmodo.com/blu-ray-association-to-the-world-we-will-own-you-in-th-244720
My conjecture is that technical school companies have recognise that too many announcements of the same things at unlike fairs thin out the message . The PRs recall that the six - day CeBIT , reduced this twelvemonth from seven , is shinky - shonky . This is what Michael Langbehn , German nous of PR and Marketing for Panasonic , thinks . “ We decided to do product launches globally at CES . Then there ’s IFA , which is amust . ” This class , Panasonic is only using CeBIT to promote its business - solution production .
This is one of the things on show at CeBIT this year . I think it looks like a headshot for the latest Sigourney Weaver movie , Alien XIII : Showdown At The Olympic Velodrome , but feel free to distinguish me that I am even more stupefied than you primitively call back . Anyway , do you have a clew ? Do you even care ? It is , convenience lovers , Gigabyte ’s Cool Rain , a body of water - cool memory module , and a mathematical product that the Japanese site Impress put up under the heading : “ At CeBIT find Worrisome PC - Related Products . ”
IFA 2008 is less than six month away , and I can guarantee you that it will be a crazy fest of deliciousness , of products that we actually desire , rather than a bunch of Apple rip - offs , earnest pledges to do well for the environment ( whilst flying a muckle of products midway flesh out the world to show them off to overweight gentleman in suits . Oh , and me . )
But do n’t get me incorrect . Apple snag - offs make me laugh , but they should only be a side order of chips to the curry wurst of brand Modern - and - awful gear that we can caress . And you may play there wo n’t be a hooker shortage in Berlin , either . [ CNETandReutersandHexusandPC Watch ]
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