CES - Goodness part 1

I have been reading, listening, & watching everything I can get my chubby little hands on CES related. First and foremost I have to say that a fantasitic site that was updated constantly was Engadget. Specifically, the keynote live blogging for all the keynotes was great, thanks so much for all your dilegence. Reading and reporting the hundreds of duplicate stories on digg was a fun past-time all week long. DL.TV had 3 shows from the parking lot outside of the Las Vegas convention center, and hosted all the video's for all the keynotes but Google's (bad google play nice with the DL.TV folks the rest of us not lucky enough to be at the hotel for the keynote are really into CES).A few highlights from CES: - Microsoft's Windows Vista is very OS X-like and will support Media Center functionality including finally anounced Media Center/Vista support for CableCard (this is the announcement for HDTV recording directly, no Cable box needed!!!). A new music download service in partnership with MTV called Urge. - Yahoo is offering lots of online services like Yahoo Mobile (full integration of yahoo mail, contacts and syncing with your cell phone). Direct integration of yahoo services into you cell phone via a single button push to Yahoo Dashboard. - Google announced that : 1.) Google Pack - All the things that you need on you Windows desktop including Norton's Antivirus (6months of service) , Open Office 2, Picassa, Google Earth, Trillian, Google Toolbar for IE, GoogleTalk, and anything else you can imagine thrown into one installer you can customize.2.) Google Video - a proprietary video player and a downloadable video service. This is a very surprising announcement, CBS has partnered with them and you can download the current primetime lineup and classic TV shows.Be back with more... technorati tags: CES, Google,Gadgets,Windows Vista,Media Center,technology