2010 CES SuperSessions Extended to December 11th

Examiner
Andrew Weiner
12/04/09
http://www.examiner.com/x-5426-Internet-and-Technology-Examiner~y2009m12d4-2010-CES-SuperSessions-Extended-to-December-11th

What Not to Miss at This Year’s CES

Technology Guide
BY: Jamison Cush, technologyguide.com Editor
1/04/10
http://www.technologyguide.com/default.asp?newsId=4938

Apple’s influence reigns over CES

MSNBC
By Suzanne Choney
1/05/10
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34634569/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/

CES shows us the Internet of the future

CNN
Tech
By Adam Ostrow
1/11/10
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/11/mashable.ces.wrapup/

DateCheck; a Finalist in the Mobile Apps Showdown

Intelius
1/08/10
http://blog.intelius.com/bid/27700/DateCheck-a-Finalist-in-the-Mobile-Apps-Showdown

Single Guys Wanted - CES 2010 in Las Vegas

Intelius
1/06/10
http://blog.intelius.com/CESDatingGame/Default.aspx?&Tag=Mobile%20Apps

Pocket-sized projector that screens your photos on to any surface, wins techie ‘Oscar’ (but no prizes for the world’s first sexbot)

Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter
1/11/10
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242257/CES-2010-Pocket-size-gizmo-projects-phone-snaps-surface-wins-award-CES.html

Mobile Apps Showdown Results

Sprint Users
By: Matthew Pankey
1/09/10
http://www.sprintusers.com/mobile-apps-showdown-results/

The geek shall inherit the Earth

Times Live
Steven van Hemert from the Consumer Electronics Show
1/11/10
http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/article256545.ece

Find Your Dream Date at CES

Technology Guide
What Not to Miss at This Year’s CES
BY: Jamison Cush
1/04/10
http://www.technologyguide.com/default.asp?newsId=4938

Sick of kissing too many frogs?

Showstoppers
By Steve
1/06/10
http://www.showstoppers.com/?p=2051

Geodelic location app now available for all Android handsets

Geodelic
Author: Buddy Dillenberg
1/13/10
http://www.geodelic.com/blog/2010/01/geodelic-location-app-now-available-for-all-android-handsets/

Clixtr Selected as Finalist for Mobile Apps Showdown at CES

The Mac Track
Staff
1/07/10
http://themactrack.com/2010/01/07/clixtr-selected-as-finalist-for-mobile-apps-showdown-at-ces/

CES Showdown: Vote for your Fav 5800 App

Nokia Fever
1/04/10
http://www.nokiafever.com/ces-showdown-vote-for-your-fav-5800-app/

Hot mobile apps at CES showdown

Network World
Dissecting the nine finalists from the Consumer Electronics Show Mobile Apps Showdown
By Brad Reed
01/12/2010
http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/011210-ces-mobile-apps.html

Geodelic Location-based Discovery for iPhone

The iPhone Blog
Rene Ritchie
1/14/10
http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2010/01/14/geodelic-locationbased-discovery-iphone/

Last Gadget Standing news coverage

Mobile Apps Showdown wasn’t the only event grabbing headlines at CES: Our sister event and fellow competition, the Last Gadget Standing, also garnered some ink. Like Mobile Apps Showdown, Last Gadget is an online and live competition, but unlike Mobile Apps, it pits gadgets against each other instead of battling apps. See what the press had to say about the Last Gadget Standing competition in this news roundup.

Laser projector, Boxee Box web TV box win CES gadget awards

News.com
From correspondents in Las Vegas From: AFP
1/11/2010 8:10AM
http://www.news.com.au/technology/laser-projector-Boxee Box-web-tv-box-win-ces-gadget-awards/story-e6frfro0-1225817940987

2010 CES SuperSessions Extended to December 11th

Examiner
Andrew Weiner
12/04/09
http://www.examiner.com/x-5426-Internet-and-Technology-Examiner~y2009m12d4-2010-CES-SuperSessions-Extended-to-December-11th

CES: Vuzix Debuts Wrap 920AR with Augmented Reality

Blu-Ray Definition
by Brandon DuHamel
1/10/10

http://www.blu-raydefinition.com/news/ces-vuzix-debuts-wrap-920ar-with-augmented-reality.html

Boxee Box crowned ‘Last Gadget Standing’ at CES

CNN
By Brandon Griggs, CNN
1/9/2010 10:49 p.m. EST
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/09/Boxee Box.brown/

Pocket-sized projector that screens your photos on to any surface, wins techie ‘Oscar’ (but no prizes for the world’s first sexbot)

Daily Mail
By Daily Mail Reporter
1/11/10
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242257/CES-2010-Pocket-size-gizmo-projects-phone-snaps-surface-wins-award-CES.html

CES 2010: Can You See in 3D? CES Says You Can

Huffington Post
Steve Rosenbaum Founder and CEO, Magnify.net
1/10/10
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-rosenbaum/can-you-see-in-3d-ces-say_b_417988.html

CES 2010: Last Gadget Standing

BBC
Rory Cellan-Jones
1/11/10
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/rorycellanjones/2010/01/last_gadget_standing.html

CES 2010 Product Overview: Prices Down, Thin Is In, Power of Touch

Technorati
Author: Leslie Grandy
1/10/10
http://technorati.com/technology/article/ces-2010-product-overview-prices-downthin1/

Laser projector, Boxee Box web TV box win CES gadget awards

News
From correspondents in Las Vegas From: AFP
1/11/10
http://www.news.com.au/technology/laser-projector-Boxee Box-web-tv-box-win-ces-gadget-awards/story-e6frfro0-1225817940987

Geeks unite!

Daily Telegraph
From: The Daily Telegraph
1/07/10
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/wacky/geeks-unite/story-e6frev20-1225816747801

Tegra talked out of CES finals

TG Daily
Sylvie Barak in Las Vegas
1/11/10
http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware/45428-tegra-talked-out-of-ces-finals

Boxee Box has people excited

Calgary Herald
By Melissa Arseniuk, For CanWest News
1/11/10
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Boxee+people+excited/2427439/story.html

CES: Why I’m a 3D skeptic, and other notes from big tech summit

Tech Flash
Todd Bishop
1/11/10
http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/01/my_post-ces_tech_bets.html

CES- Last Gadget Standing

Notebooks.com
by Amy Zunk
1/10/10
http://www.notebooks.com/2010/01/10/ces-last-gadget-standing/

International CES Show Day # 3 (January 9, 2010)

Robot Reviews
Submitted by fraggboy
1/10/10
http://www.robotreviews.com/blog/fraggboy/international-ces-show-day-3-january-9-2010

Icrontic at CES 2010: Last Gadget Standing

Icrontic
Brian Ambrozy
10/5/09
http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/icrontic-at-ces-2010-last-gadget-standing/?utm_source=3features&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=homepage

Boxee Box victorious at Vegas’ Last Gadget Standing contest

Kelowna
CanWest News Service
1/10/10
http://www.kelowna.com/2010/01/10/Boxee Box-box-victorious-at-vegas-last-gadget-standing-contest/

CES 2010: Chumby Grows Up

Spectrum IEEE
POSTED BY: Tekla Perry
1/12/10
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/consumer-electronics/gadgets/ces-2010-chumby-grows-up

Last Gadget Standing

CEA Digital Dialogue
By Colleen Lerro
1/10/10
http://blog.ce.org/index.php/2010/01/10/last-gadget-standing/

Boxee Box crowned ‘Last Gadget Standing’ at CES

Financial News USA
Staff
1/10/10
http://www.financialnewsusa.com/more/47-tech/10902-Boxee Box-box-crowned-last-gadget-standing-at-ces

It’s so cool…it’s evil

Microvision
by Matt Nichols
1/05/10
http://www.microvision.com/displayground/?p=1308

Useful, useless and unusual at US gadget show

Agence France Press
By Chris Lefkow and Charlotte Raab (AFP)
10/1/2010
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jYfjimtMJHUbALPJ7rEDQcvp2GvQ

Update from CES

The Acer Guy
posted by Michael Walsh
1/04/10
http://www.theacerguy.com/2010/01/update-from-ces/

Boxee @ CES Wrap-Up

Boxee Blog
Andrew Kippen
1/13/10
http://blog.boxee.tv/2010/01/13/boxee-ces-wrap-up/

]]> http://mobileappsshowdown.com/2010/01/28/this-just-in-mobil-apps-showdown-news-roundup/feed/ http://mobileappsshowdown.com/2010/01/20/watch-the-mobile-apps-in-action/ http://mobileappsshowdown.com/2010/01/20/watch-the-mobile-apps-in-action/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:45:42 +0000 Robin Raskin http://mobileappsshowdown.com/?p=867 Even if you missed the Mobile Apps Showdown event, it doesn’t mean that you’ll miss out on seeing these great apps in action. We invited the developers to come to our booth and demonstrate their apps in 90-second quick-fire demos. We have assembled 13 of those videos here for you to watch. Click on any of the links below to go straight to a video of that product. We have the two winners, plus eleven more contenders in our video collection. So check out our apps and see if you’d like to add them to your mobile.

Clixtr
The winner of the Mobile Apps Showdown live event, Clixtr turns smartphones into smartcameras by leveraging location-based technologies and the rapidly improving quality of camera phones. Add the “where” to the “what” in your smartphone pics.

Gwabbit
Online readers went cwazy for Gwabbit, voting it into first place in the Mobile Apps Showdown online competition. Gwabbit scans incoming BlackBerry emails, finds contacts, and instantly transforms them into contact records within your Outlook address book - all with a single mouse click.

Aha
Providing more than just traffic info from the Department of Transportation, Aha uses a peer-to-peer network to let all drivers communicate their traffic experience with each other for real-time, in-traffic information.

Truphone
Turn your iPod into an iPhone: With the Truphone-created app, users find themselves with a powerful phone replete with calling options, instant messaging capabilities, and most attractively, low-cost calling.

Gravity
Gravity equips social media mavens with all the tools they need to customize and optimize their Twitter experience on their S60 mobile devices.

Date Check
Don’t go into a blind date blind. Date Check lets you get the stats on your potential paramour so that you can feel safe that it won’t be some creep, crook, or scam artist. Cynical? Yes. Does it work? You bet.

SAT Vocab Challenge
iPhone as tutor: This iPhone and iPod touch app is a college admissions exam resource that measures a user’s mastery of 250 words, including The Princeton Review’s Hit Parade, a list of 100 words that most frequently appear on the SAT. Makes mobile study sessions easy.

Telenav GPS Navigator
Get a digital copilot: TeleNav GPS Navigator transforms mobile phones into full-featured personal navigation devices. The service includes full-color, 2D or 3D maps with voice and onscreen turn-by-turn driving or walking directions.

LogMeIn Ignition
Access your PC from anywhere with your iPhone or iPod Touch. LogMeIn Ignition connects to desktops and laptops running LogMeIn Pro, LogMeIn IT Reach, or LogMeIn Free, and can be used to control Windows PCs and Mac OS computers.

Livio Radio
You can now listen to all the stations from the Livio Radio — the WiFi radio that frees Internet radio from your PC — in your car with the Car Internet Radio by Livio Radio for iPhone application. Livio’s soon-to-be-released iPhone app features the first ever “direct tuning” of over 16,000 radio stations, and it lets you take and receive phone calls easily within the application while driving.

Slacker Radio
Slacker allows music lovers to play personalized music on the go with the Slacker Mobile application for iPhone, BlackBerry, and soon Android and Windows Mobile. Slacker.com worked with all major music labels and thousands of indie labels to license their content legally, giving music lovers free access to millions of songs, over 100 pre-programmed genre stations, thousands of artist stations, or their own custom-created stations.

Shazam
Is the name of that tune on the tip of your tongue? With this app you can get the name in seconds flat using your iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry, or Symbian smartphone. Take a quick sample and Shazam returns song information, artist, title, album, release date, and more in just a few moments.

Drum roll, please….

And the winners are – Clixtr won in the live competition, while Gwabbit took home the online prize.

Clixtr, a mobile app that turns smartphones into smartcameras by leveraging location-based technologies and the rapidly improving quality of camera phones, was selected as the winner of the Mobile Apps Showdown live CES audience applause-o-meter. Clixtr users create events, upload mobile photos, and, for the first time ever, create real-time event photo streams with the users around them.  At the standing-room-only competition, each of the finalists gave a four-minute demonstration of their products to the live audience, who then voted for the app they felt was the best, and Clixtr won the day with the most applause from the audience.

And that brings us to our second winner, Gwabbit. Gwabbit is the only provider of automatic email contact management (ECM) solutions for the contact cloud that automatically searches and identifies contacts embedded in emails and adds or updates that information to your information in a single click. When online voting officially ended at 12:00 a.m. EST on January 9th, Gwabbit, LLC was selected as the other winner of the Mobile Apps Showdown. This was an incredibly tight vote, so we would like to give a shout-out to DateCheck, which was edged out by Gwabbit by a slim margin of several hundred votes.

One note about the voting: Voting ended last night at 12 a.m. precisely. We kept the polls open so people could still visit the voting page, but the winner was determined buy the number of votes at midnight. See below for the results captured at midnight last night.

Congratulations to both of the winners, and to all of the other Mobile Apps Showdown competitors.

Pros: Fascinating content for free.

Cons: Interface takes getting used to.

Category: Lifestyle

Author: Clixtr

Platform: iPhone

Cost: Free

http://www.clixtr.com/alpha

Pros: If “who you know” is part of your job, you’ll love this. No more cutting and pasting addresses into Outlook. Gwabbit recognizes just about every weird address — even those long ones with the names of every site the contact mentions.

Cons: The app sometimes prompts you for a contact even if you have it already and sometimes mixes up fields when the address is complex.

Category: Productivity

Author: gwabbit.com

Platform: BlackBerry

Cost: $9.99 for the year after a 14 day free trial

http://www.gwabbit.com/gwabbit_blackberry.php

So how are our contestants doing? This has all the earmarks of a two-party race. Currently, DateCheck is in the lead, showing us that people are leery of potential partners — they want all the cards on the table before the first date. But the race is tight. A mere 6,400 votes behind is another contender, Gwabbit, which helps you turn BlackBerry emails into Outlook contacts.

Can Gwabbit gwab the title, or will DateCheck body-check Gwabbit and take the prize? And lets not rule out an upset from another competitor. For example, the next nearest contender is ShopSavvy, which lets you comparison shop by scanning a barcode using your iPhone — pretty thrifty. Although it’s in third place and nearly 40,000 votes behind, that doesn’t mean it can’t catch up, if enough savvy shoppers vote for it.

And that’s where you come in. Don’t sit idly by; make your voice heard. Go to the Mobile Apps Showdown Ballot Box page and vote for your favorite or favorites. Voting will end at midnight Friday, so time is limited. And if you’re at CES, don’t forget to attend the live Mobile Apps Showdown Competition at 12:30 p.m., Saturday, January 9, in Room N255-257 of the Convention Center’s North Hall.

VOTE NOW

Shazam: What’s the name of that song playing in the bar or on the radio? Music-tagging app Shazam can scratch that itch.

Gwabbit: So slick, so simple. Gwabbit scans incoming BlackBerry emails, finds contacts, and instantly transforms them into contact records within your Outlook address book — all with a single mouse click.

DateCheck: The motto is look up before you hook up. The service is personal background checks sent straight to your phone.

Truphone: iTouch + Truphone = iPhone

BeejiveIM: This app supports just about every instant messaging service out there and keeps you logged into all of them at the same time while letting you hop between chats across multiple services.

TeleNav GPS Navigator: Transform your mobile phone into a walking, talking GPS device. TeleNav includes full-color maps with voice and onscreen turn-by-turn driving or walking directions, plus more than 10 million business listings with ratings and reviews, real-time traffic alerts with one-click rerouting.

SPB Mobile Shell: Give your Windows Mobile phone a facelift. SPB Mobile Shell is a next-generation user interface that boasts 3D animation, Facebook integration, kinetic scrolling, widgets, and multiple usability innovations.

Aha: The first driver-to-driver network, Aha connects drivers to live traffic reports from each other and to relevant information from the Internet. Record and share your own personal traffic reports to help those around you, or listen to a customized traffic channel on the roads you travel.

Clixtr: By creating an instant, location-aware mobile photo-sharing platform, Clixtr enables real-time event browsing by location or popularity. You can follow and contribute to events as they happen around the corner and around the world.

Geodelic: A free application that browses your surroundings, Geodelic lets you swipe through locations on your iPhone or Android phone to quickly find anything from a java joint to a dry cleaner or a cash machine. Over time, the app learns what you like, giving you personalized results.

Meanwhile, the online competition is in full swing. Votes have been pouring in for our 20 semifinalists, and we’ve got ourselves a tight race to determine our people’s choice winner. Perhaps the current leader, ShopSavvy, has benefited from the busy holiday shopping season, but this free barcode scanner application is out in front with more than 19,000 votes. Lurking only 2,500 votes behind in second place is Facade, which bestows a new look upon Windows Mobile phones. And in third place and still within striking distance is Geodelic, a free app that searches your surroundings.

Be sure you get your votes in. Simply head to the Ballot Box and cast your votes for your favorite mobile app or apps. You’ve got 25 votes at your disposal — use them! Voting closes next Friday, January 8, where at CES we’ll announce the people’s choice winner.

Make your vote count on our Ballot Box page!

At the show, all 20 of our semifinalists will demo live from the Mobile Apps Showdown stage in the North Hall at CES 2010 (beginning on January 7). Stop by and see them — the show will be a constant rotation of apps.

We did the tough work for you. Our judges from NetShelter Technology Media looked at tons of apps, hashing out the pros and cons. We’ve now narrowed the field to 20 fabulous semifinalists.

Make your vote count on our Ballot Box Page!

What’s the score:

At the moment, TeleNav GPS Navigator is stealing the show. For ten dollars a month, it turns your phone into a turn-by-turn, voice-navigation GPS. SPB TV, an app that transforms your phone into a tiny TV, is in second place. And as crazy as it seems, DateCheck, an app whose motto is “look up before you hook up,” currently holds third place.

What happens next:

All semifinalists will demo live from the Mobile Apps Showdown stage in the North Hall at CES 2010 (beginning on January 7). Stop by and see them — the show will be a constant rotation of apps. By January 9, we’ll have ten finalists who will go on to the big stage in the Ballroom at the LVCC (Saturday, January 9 at 12:30 in Room N257). On that day, we’ll also tally up the online votes and name a people’s choice winner. So whether you’re with us at CES or with us online, you’ve got an important vote to cast. Go for it. (Next year perhaps we’ll have a mobile app to let you cast your vote.)

Pros: Simple interface; you can create customizable list of the news sources you want to hear.

Cons: Streams only talk radio — no music.

Cost: Free

Category: Entertainment

Author: Stitcher

Platform: iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Palm

http://stitcher.com/home.php

Pros: Full Twitter functionality; attractive interface; auto updates; supports multiple accounts.

Cons: Performance may vary when connecting to Twitter’s servers for updates.

Cost: $9.99

Category: Lifestyle

Author: mobileways.de

Platform: Nokia

Gravity on Ovi Store by Nokia