Economic worries mar tech show's glitz
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SAN FRANCISCO/LAS VEGAS  - The world's major technology companies are trying to convince consumers they need an expensive, digitally connected home with the latest high-tech gadgets.
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Science & environment: Â· Electronics industry is braced for hard timesÂ· Green theme seeks to counter adverse publicity
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Analysts turn gloomy, lowering their predictions on new technology spending as the nation slides into what may be a long economic recession.
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Speaker systems, TV phones, innovations and oddities on display this week at Tokyo's consumer-technology trade fair.
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With recession looming, there are pitfalls and opportunities.
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As earnings reports rolled in from technology bellwethers, including Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, and Motorola, worries about the economy continued to overshadow good news this week.
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Concerns about a spending slowdown continue to make IT investors nervous.
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Proposals for tax on engineers, compulsory arts degrees The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has this month brought out its World Economic Outlook for 2007, and the various heavyweights of financial news have all had their bash at reporting on it. Normally, no vulture would stir on his/her perch over this type of thing - unless, perhaps, Paris Hilton had been implicated in some kind of major economic upthrust - but in this case, the economists make some rather startling pronouncements about technology.â¦
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NEW YORK - US tech stocks tumbled while blue chips slipped in extremely thin volume yesterday as security concerns surrounding the Republican National Convention here and worries about earnings kept investors on the sidelines.
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The Consumer Electronics Show is on in full force in Las Vegas. Here are just some of Wednesday's highlights from the giant gadget show.
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Televisions big enough to cover  living-room walls were the showstoppers at the main U.S.  technology convention of 2005 on Wednesday as technology  companies said avid fans would pay more for an advanced screen  than a luxury car.
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PARIS -- Many of the fanciful technologies and programs unveiled at the Paris Air Show this week won't survive their first contact with the real world of budget cuts and customer demand.
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SAN FRANCISCO/LAS VEGAS  - The world's major  technology companies are trying to convince consumers they need  an expensive, digitally connected home with the latest  high-tech gadgets.
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By Mark Albright, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.  Sep. 15--Prices of flashy, high-tech TV gear may be plummeting, but  Americans are spending more on digital sets than ever.
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Industry superpowers are left scrambling to keep up with a fast-changing tech world that is seemingly  about to leave them behind.
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The focus of this year's Consumer Electronics Show has shifted from futuristic gadgets to instant consumer gratification, attendees say.
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The pink slips are flying into mailboxes and jobs are flying out of the country. But there are signs that give reason for some optimism in the tech sector. -washingtonpost.com