Live from Gary Shapiro's and Ed Zander's CES keynote
by Chris Ziegler 
posted Jan 8th 2007 at 11:41AM
8:41AM PST - The keynote has kicked off with a video detailing the forty years since the first CES.
8:43AM - Gary Shapiro takes the stage.
8:45AM - CES is about "New Convergence" this year: convergence of content, services, and products.
8:51AM - Must help consumers understand the new convergence; CEA's parternship with CNET, broadcast, and cable are a part of that. Band "3 Doors Down" helps consumers understand the audio experience.
8:55AM - Because good content is often rewarded with fame and fortune (including consumer-generated content), we'll see an ever-expanding array of content choices.
8:56AM - Though it shuns commercial piracy, CEA believes that consumers have rights -- lawfully-acquired content should be fair game if kept within the home.
8:58AM - Ordinary consumers are not pirates -- pushes digitalfreedom.org.
8:59AM - Introduces Ed Zander, points out that Motorola exhibited in the very first CES forty years ago.
9:04AM - Ed Zander takes the stage. "Mobile ME: Internet goes Airborne."
9:09AM - "It's no longer the device... it's your persona."
9:10AM - "Three big thoughts: everything becomes digital, everything gets connected, broadband/IP becomes ubiquitous."
9:12AM - 10-second wireless downloads of MP3s in 1-2 years via WiMAX and LTE.
9:14AM - Motorola working on a dynamo and holster for bicycles that can be used to charge phones in emerging markets.
9:16AM - Announces partnership with Yahoo.
9:17AM - Introduces Marco Boerries from Yahoo.
9:21AM - oneSearch is location-aware, showing local businesses associated with search keywords.
9:24AM - Talks up Yahoo! Go's Flickr widget.
9:26AM - Beta available today from go.yahoo.com, compatibility with 400+ phones by end of year. Will be proloaded on many new phones.
9:29AM - Zander returns to keynote. Discussing easier ways to get music on and off phones. Showing ROKR E6. Introduces Chris White, Motorola Multimedia Experiences.
9:32AM - Talking up partnership with Kodak for Bluetooth printing.
9:34AM - New partnership with Warner Music to "recreate music experience of '70s and '80s" with interesting new packaging and information on emerging artists packaged with phones.
9:35AM - "Experience Pack" offers additional information about the artist; wallpapers, bios, etc.
9:39AM - Available first half of '07.
9:41AM - Turns attention to enterprise. Danny Shader, Good Technologies comes out.
9:43AM - Shows Q with Good replacing Pocket Outlook.
9:46AM - Announces partnership with NewsGator to integrate corporate news feeds into Good software.
9:50AM - Danny Shader exists, Zander resumes. Turns attention to home. Dan Moloney, Motorola Connected Home Solutions comes out.
9:52AM - Talks up ability to restart shows from their beginnings using Motorola DVRs.
9:54AM - Motorola "FollowMeTV" technology - placeshifting from Motorola DVRs.
9:55AM - FollowMe includes photos and music in addition to TV programming. Also follows to phones. Verizon launched last year, Comcast will be launching this year.
9:58AM - Shows mobile remote software on a RAZR, allows the set-top box to be programmed for recording remotely. Operators will be able to push targeted ads to phones based on what the user is recording.
10:01AM - Shows live video on a Q being placeshifted from an IP set-top box in San Diego.
10:02AM - Moloney finishes, Zander returns. Wrapping up.
And that's it! More on Motorola's new products throughout the week.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Darrol @ Jan 8th 2007 12:01PM
Why does it say 11:41AM PST when it is supposed to be EST?
Lp @ Jan 8th 2007 12:42PM
PST shmeST. How does that matter in the grand scheme here?
Silence @ Jan 8th 2007 12:42PM
Bet the MOTORIZR won't play music purchased from the Zune Marketplace!
Jim @ Jan 10th 2007 5:15PM
Shapiro's comments about how consumers shouldn't be in legal jeopardy if they do something with lawfully acquired content must have resonated. Hundreds of CES attendees have signed up to support the DigitalFreedom campaign that was launched in the fall (digitalfreedom.org). I work on the campaign. He also said, "We believe that consumers have rights and that the copyright laws need to be changed to reduce potential damages for companies launching new products where the copyright law is unclear or where the inventor does not intentionally or directly infringe copyrights."
chuck H3 Tec @ Dec 5th 2007 2:32PM
Well, Zander is no more... either is his CTO... dropping like flies....
The H3 tec ad was run on October 24th in USA TODAY, offering Motoroa CEO Ed Zander an exclusive on this technology. The offer expired on November 24th. On November 30th, Zander announced he was stepping down from Motorola. Five days later, on December 4th, Motorola's CTO Padmasree Warrior resigned (the next day reporting she was going to CISCO). Far from claiming a cause-effect relationship, is it possible that there is some kind of "cosmic cannon" deployed to keep H3 technology from going mainstream?
The answer is "No," given the negotiations wtih major mineral exploration interests as well as testing by the Intermountain Bomb Squad and a new contract for airborne sensors . . .