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Yup, for the second time in two months Steve Jobs is going to get up on stage and do his thing. We're there with live coverage of the blow-by-blow, keep refreshing this page for the latest.P.S. - Yes, we know that the Apple Store is down.8:50AM PST - Still in line, all the press are waiting on Howard Street outside of Yerba Buena. As usual, it's a who's who of the tech press.
Read MoreYes, yes, this post is where all the action's gonna happen for today's live Stevenote-keynote coverage. Bookmark it, refresh it, do your thing -- just be sure and come back some time around 9:00AM Pacific / 12:00PM Eastern.10:13AM EST - We are currently 27th and 28th in line next to reporters from Kansai Digital Press.11:41AM - Big surprise, we're still waiting in line. They're keeping us in the Media Corral for the moment, but we'll probably be granted entry in the very near future...11:53 AM - Ok, we're moving in, we'll be taking our seats in a moment. 11:59 AM - Not that we need to tell you, but they're obviously running a little bit late.12:01 PM - Well, looks like we're all settled in. We've got our crack team on the case: Engadget keynote sharpshooter and bestest buddy Paul Boutin on keys, Editor-in-Chief Peter Rojas and Engadget Splunker Patrick McGovern, Jr. on snaps, and Managing Editor Ryan Block editing and posting. 12:04 PM - What's that sound? It's the sound of everyone trying to connect to the Wi-Fi network. The one that's not on. 12:07 PM - The lights are going down, STEEEEEVE takes the stage.12:08 PM - "Good morning and welcome to Macworld. We've got a lot of great stuff for you today." [Top photo by Patrick McGovern, Jr.]
Read MoreBrazenly flouting the unwritten show biz rule, "Never follow Robin Williams," His Steveness takes the stage this Tuesday at 9am (San Francisco time) to drop iProduct after iProduct on us. The latest rumor says Apple plans to get all Blue Man Group and catapult itself onto our living room walls, where it will stick in the form of HDTV flat panels for the new Intel Viiv platform. Make sure you hit Engadget tomorrow morning, because only one prediction is sure to be true: You'll see it here first.
Read MoreThe real action was in the green room last night. Onstage, Robin Williams had zapped audience members who challenged Larry Page with questions at the company's keynote. But Larry and Google CEO Eric Schmidt faced the world's toughest tech journos on their own afterwards at an invite-only press conference. Google's event staff tracked our liveblog during the keynote and invited us after the show to join a dozen reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and others. These guys made us look like pussycats. Our notes are after the jump.
Read MoreRobin Williams to Larry Page during Q&A: "Hit 'em again, Mensa-boy, it's your turn."The entire event is after the jump ...
Read More(UPDATE: Click here for live Google keynote coverage beginning at 4pm Pacific. See after the jump for pix of Yahoo's new Dashboard)8:55am Terry Semel should be out in a few minutes (right after the ubiquitous Gary Shapiro, of course.) The guys behind us are arguing whether or not Yahoo is a Web 2.0 company. No wait, they're trying to figure out what a "Web 2.0 company" is. Note to Dale Dougherty at O'Reilly: Mission Accomplished!8:57 We've just overheard "AOL sent 30 people" here to cover CES for Engadget.9:05 Gary S is on. Stand by... He's pronounced Terry's name as both SEH-mell and seh-MELL.9:05 Here's Terry! He jokes that he's been to Las Vegas plenty of times, but this is the first time he's seen what it looks like at 7am. Transcript follows:
Read More4:20pm You probably already know about AOL & Intel's video service announcement, but what about the hardware? Paul Otellini will be onstage in a few to do show & tell. Meanwhile we're just glad the music isn't as loud as usual while we wait. Jason C is on camera with his new Canon 20D.4:28 They kept the chimes.4:33 Please welcome .... CES president Gary Shapiro! "As you walk the floor you will notice two themes at CES: Connectivity and mobility."4:34 Paul Otellini takes the stage. 4:35 He shows a pseudo-documentary video of a small town called Normal. Like most presos at CES, the NPR soundtrack is suddenly overrun by "Let's Get it Started in Here" as all of Normal (now renamed "The New Normal") busts out in connectivity and mobility.
Read More8:55am We're back at the Las Vegas Hilton already, listening to Consumer Electronics Association prez Gary Shapiro warm up the audience again with CES stats. Sir Howard Stringer should be on in a minute. No Howard Stern at CES, sorry, but Opie and Anthony are here. Meanwhile, let's join Gary and give a hand to our government buyers in the audience.9:05 The chaiman and chief exec of Sony Corporation, Sirrrrr Howard Stringer! Mostly Howard's quotes from here on. He just told a joke about the Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer who died last week. Packer loved gambling in Vegas, he says. During one game, a gambler who felt Packer wasn't respecting him huffed, "You know, I'm worth a hundred million dollars." Packer replied [Croc Dundee accent here], "Toss you for it."
Read More6:25pm We're kicking back in the Engadget VIP balcony at the Hilton. Paul is on the keys, Ryan on camera. We've just gotten the warning that things are about to start.6:34 Still waiting! 6:36 The thumpy music is getting louder and the big-screen graphics busier, so we must be close.6:37 Ladies and gentlemen .... Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Association. He's giving us the stats on the show. IT'S REALLY BIG!6:42 The intro just keeps going. Now there's a video about Microsoft's vision. See the comments to this post for links to live video streams.6:44 Ladies and gentlemen ... Bill Gates!
Read MoreCES is turning into Attack of the 50-inch TVs. Pioneer claims its new $10,000 PRO-FHD1 display, positioned as a companion to the company's Blu-ray player, has pixels 35% smaller than previous models. It's so new we couldn't get any decent press photos, but we snapped this shot at their press conference. Specs: 1920 x 1080 progressive, built-in upconversion and HDMI.
Read MoreWe know something is afoot between Panasonic and Comcast. We've shoved our way to the front of the crowd in the Las Vegas Convention Center's hangar-sized Central Hall to find out what.3:00 pm - There are 300 chairs for what looks like 600 people at Panasonic's booth. The place is decked out with Comcast logos and execs. 3:03 Panasonic North America honcho Yoshi Yamada takes the stage and shows us a video of a Space Shuttle launch on a -- let me fact-check this -- yes, a 103-inch plasma screen.3:05 Yamada: "Like you I'm not an engineer. I want it to be easy to watch a first run movie without having to use three or four different remotes. For this reason, Panasonic went to Comcast."3:09 Comcast Chairman/CEO Brian Roberts takes the stage. "Everybody here is invited to my home in Philadelphia to watch _Rocky_ on my 103-inch Panasonic."3:12 They're announcing an initiative to create a single-remote standardized system. Panasonic will provide Comcast with 250,000 set-top boxes. You'll take the set out of the box, plug it in, and the Comcast guide will come up. 3:15 Yamada is back, explaining all the things you'll be able to see: Video, photos, cameras placed around the house (who's at the door?), Blu-ray, etc etc. The OCAP middleware standard is what they're using to tie things together. 3:19 Photo op of the first set-top box. It's plain, but it's shiny..3:22 They've brought Olympic skier Picabo Street up, wearing her gold medal. She says she didn't have TV growing up, "so I didn't have all this in-your-face marketing to tell you what to buy." Ixnay, Picabo, ixnay!
Read More$1,800 isn't really all that much for Pioneer's forthcoming player, which bundles 1080p output and 1080p video upconvert, and supports DTS-HD, DTS and Dolby Digital. Besides an HDMI jack for one-cable hookup, the BDP-HD1 will be able to network with any DLNA-compliant server or any PC running Windows Media Connect.
Read MoreMore new gear from this morning's LG press conference: two portable video players smaller than an iPod or LG's own PM70. The JM53 (pictured, right) has an 8GB drive and a 1.77-inch OLED display. It measures 3.9 inches high, 1.9 inches wide, and 0.55 inches deep. The even smaller FM30 (left) crams 1GB of storage and the same size screen into a 2.4" X 1.6" X 0.55" package you can wear around your neck. LG claims 30 hours of battery time for the JM53 and 60 for the FM30. Both players will handle MPEG4, ASF, WMA, MP3 and OGG formats.
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