technology in 2012?
The consumer electronics products projected $ 171 check billion in 2008
The picture typical samples Gates and Slash is not a photomontage, is that each year the International Fair of Consumer Electronics (CES, according to its acronym in English) of Las Vegas becomes, for a few days, the planetary capital of consumer electronics. And the show is the language of the big brands to communicate and demonstrate their ability to gain the attention of others.
From Monday to Thursday of last week, the world's most powerful companies in technology and design came together in this exhibition, a series of buildings covering an area equivalent to 28 football stadiums, to present their innovations compared to an eager public and crowded.
News from this year? Panasonic plasma screen with 150-inch, Sony's brand new Blu-ray to $ 200, Intel with their mobile devices, which strengthen the mix of Internet and home electronics, and once again, the farewell of Bill Gates, from the middle of this year will devote himself to philanthropy. There are few facts for an exhibition in a few years managed to move in the interest of the legendary Comdex, despite the specter of recession.
All green
Beyond the endless fashion devices, including solid trends perceived as irreversible the boom in green technologies, with products aimed at saving energy and manufactured with less toxic materials.
Virtually all major manufacturers are betting industry to the environment today, under pressure from countries with increasingly demanding legislation on these issues.
Another controversial issue that the bank is the poor impact of Windows Vista operating system. Not reached with the statements of Gates and his sales figures, which speak of a hundred million of the new updates for Windows, to change the mood. Many analysts still wonder if after five years of development could not have released Microsoft operating system with a satisfaction level as high as that reached at the time XP.
In another vein, while the American economy today through some storm fronts arising from unemployment, oil prices and deteriorating credit markets and housing, the spokesmen Consumer Electronics Association (organizers of the expo) estimated that the sector had, in the United States earns about U.S. $ 161,000 million during 2007, up 8% over 2006. The outlook for growth this year, and is estimated to be around U.S. $ 171 billion. Both
deployment seems to have aroused the envy among those providing the infrastructure for the implementation of the CES organizers complain that all costs were five times more expensive there than anywhere else in the United States. A sore that can become a major reason for the CES next year to move with trends elsewhere, according to advance.
Rafael Bini
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