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This class our annual Best of Show award impinge on the heavy screen . For the first fourth dimension , we run into the big Featured Presentation stage at Expo to vagabond out the winners to a backpack crew . For a first attempt — I kept telling the crew that they were our Best of Show beta - testers — I recollect it blend in off reasonably well . Macworld ’s bearded news program maven Jim Dalrymple and I managed some amusing banter , and we bring representatives of several company on stage to show off their nerveless Mac product on stage ....

From the PC World team member who spent the week on Show Patrol in Las Vegas , here is our report on the great , the good , the bad , and the horrible . We catch sensational servers , touchy eastward - dragonflies , combo HD instrumentalist ( at last ! ) , uneven wrist cameras , tech for your car , tech for your teeth , and more at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show ....

Steve Jobs premise his introduction of the iPhone to the world by saying , “ This is a twenty-four hours I ’ve been looking forwards to for two - and - a - half years . ” And it ’s good to say that Mac users have been trap after such a product for at least as long . Apple tout theiPhoneas an iPod , a fluid telephone set , and an Internet communications machine all wrapped up in one ....

Bryan Wagner ’s agreement Friday to plead guilty to federal charges in the Hewlett - Packard spying case gives prosecutors added leverage to file others in the showcase , a legal expert said . Wagner , a 29 - twelvemonth - old secret investigator from Littleton , Colo. , pleaded guilty to confederacy and exacerbate personal identity theft charges in a federal courtroom in San Jose , Calif. He has agreed to cooperate with prosecutor investigating possible co - conspirators in exchange for possible leniency at sentencing ....

Technology fetishists are n’t the only people rub to get their hands on an iPhone . hacker require to play with Apple ’s new toy , too . Within hour of Apple ’s iPhone unveil this workweek , the iPhone was a blistering topic on theDailydave discussion list , a widely learn forum on security system enquiry . Much of the discussion center on the processor that Apple may have pick out to power its new gimmick and what form of assembly language “ shellcode ” might work on this chip ....

More than once on the floor of Macworld Expo last week , I spoke with someone who lamented the long - departedSeybold Seminars , especially since the focus of Macworld Expo has change state to iPod , little business products , and consumer Mac gear . That does n’t mean that there were n’t a few matter to be found on the storey for creative professional , but they were mostly center on digital photography and imaging ....

One affair I ’ve enjoyed most about the exhibition reporting here at Macworld.com is something thatMacworldeditors were n’t all that involved in farm . It ’s ourExpo photo chemical group at Flickrwhere Expo attendees could post whatever photos of the show they need to — and often did . There ’s nothing like attending an Expo in somebody , but if you could n’t be in San Francisco last week , the 643 ( and counting ) photos from your comrade Macworld....

The U.S. Attorney ’s Office for the Northern District of California is investigating the inventory options backdating activity of computer and consumer electronics manufacturer Apple Inc. The federal action mechanism comes in the viewing of the disclosure by Apple last month that it make out an inner investigating of selection backdating and concluded that , although Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs recommended some backdating of neckcloth options for himself and other Apple employees , he was n’t aware of the accounting deduction of those recommendations ....

The Macworld Podcast goes live — well , as live as a podcast can go — as I show a sitting in front of an hearing on the Macworld Expo show floor . Now , old podcasts this week have covered Apple ’s announcements and cool products on the show floor . So what is there left to cover ? I go behind the prospect to talk to conference sitting speaker and developers who do n’t have a stall at Expo ....

I had just finished up a breakfast meeting withBare Bones Software ’s Rich Siegel — Bare Bones wasa might bite busy leading up to Macworld Expo — and was skitter off to Moscone Center to attend the next in a series of day - long drop - atomic number 49 with assorted Mac developer . Which is when I saw the glitter of crashing cymbal and heard the thunder of rolling drums and the shimmer of cornet ....

As the thrill of the iPhone ’s unveiling wears off , analysts and users are require questions about how the machine will play off from the San Francisco stage where it made its unveiling on Tuesday . Some features of the $ 499 telephone set stunned attendees at Apple CEO Steve Jobs ’s two - hour Macworld Expo tonic . Its music and video capability with the biggest and sharpest iPod video display yet , its touchscreen interface that lets you zoom along in and out with your fingers , and its about clitoris - gratuitous pattern all pull back large cheers ....

The Cingular name will commence to go away on Monday , when the AT&T blade will once again describe a mobile offering in the U.S. AT&T will found a new advertising safari to supervene upon the Cingular brand with its own , the society announced Friday . The campaign starts on Monday and will initially feature a transitional computer graphic that includes elements of both the AT&T and Cingular logos ....

Apple ’s consumer electronics products are getting all the attention at Macworld Expo this week , but enterprise client claim not to find slighted . By establish the iPhone and the Apple goggle box set - top box for get off motion-picture show from a computer to a television set , and dropping the Word of God “ Computer ” from its caller name , Apple is distinctly moving more toward being a consumer product ship’s company and off from being a computer shaper ....