Posted on May 12th, 2008 by David Politis
My Experience with Twitter this Past Saturday (5-10-08) at the Republican State Convention
This past Saturday (5-10-08) found me and 3,500 of my closest friends – ;-) — jammed into the McKay Events Center at Utah Valley State College as participants in the Republican Party’s state convention.
This was my first time to attend such an event, [...]
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Posted on April 24th, 2008 by Kbeldin
Last year we participated in the annual Blogging for Business Conference and it was a great event. This year’s event will be even better.
The theme this year is Engage. [Disclosure: Politis Communications is a sponsor of the conference] Isn’t that what we’re trying to do as marketing professionals? In most cases we want to engage [...]
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Posted on January 17th, 2008 by David Politis
Okay. So this item should have been written a week ago, the day after I returned from Las Vegas to attend the annual technology lovefest known as the Consumer Electronics Show.
However, by the time I hit the airport Tuesday evening, I was ready to crawl up into a ball and die as I had picked up [...]
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Posted on January 9th, 2008 by David Politis
So I made it back from the 2008 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, and I’m fighting a major head cold that’s left me lightheaded and feeling pretty beat up.
However, before I got too far removed from Vegas, I figured I’d better make sure I uploaded this picture.
Turns out that Dolby had a pretty massive [...]
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by David Politis
There’s a reason why the new Dreamflyer from FMS Flight Motion Simulators won the Innovations Award in the Electronic Gaming category at 2008 Consumer Electronics Show — it’s a WAY cool product!
The Kelowna, British Columbia company really hit it out of the park with the Dreamflyer as it was easily the most-photographed product in the [...]
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by David Politis
How about spending $140,000 for a set of metal speakers? One-hundred-and-forty Gs? Yup!
KEF America landed a Best of Innovations 2008 award at the Consumer Electronics Show for its new KEF Muon Loudspeakers.
According to KEF, the Muon Loudspeakers are fabricated from super-formed aluminum in a molding process similar to vacuum forming. And yes, the speakers look [...]
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by David Politis
Sometimes, regardless of purpose, circumstances conspire to prevent even the best of intentions.
My plan was to arrive in Las Vegas before 7 a.m. yesterday morning, giving me nearly a full day of walking the halls of the various convention centers and checking out the latest and greatest gizmos and doodads at the annual Consumer Electronics [...]
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Posted on January 4th, 2008 by David Politis
Monday morning, January 7, 2008, I’ll be boarding a Southwest Airlines flight at 6:15 a.m. to begin another annual trip to Sin City for the technology confab known as CES.
The Consumer Electronics Show, running this year from January 7-10, has become the largest consumer-focused technology tradeshow in the world. That’s based upon actually attendees, not [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2007 by David Politis
Salt Lake City-based ContentWatch announced yesterday afternoon that it has acquired Net Nanny from San Francisco-based LookSmart (NASDAQ: LOOK).
Historically perceived as a market (if not a technology) leader in the Internet filtration/parental controls marketplace, Net Nanny has become something of an orphaned/abandoned product within LookSmart as management has decided to focus the company on the [...]
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Posted on January 23rd, 2007 by David Politis
Early this morning, University Venture Fund announced that it has tapped 10 MBA students from the Wharton School to assist the UVF in running its $18 million private equity fund.
Founded in 2001 at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business as an entrepreneurial tool for UofU students, the UVF went on to raise [...]
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