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	The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Comdex 2003: Glitz takes a back seat to court serious buyers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Comdex, which started in 1979 as the Computer Dealer Exposition, had become a spectacle, a thrilling mishmash of Las Vegas kitsch, over-the-top parties and attention-getting gimmicks.
		Comdex was previously run by Key3Media, a publicly traded company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early this year.
		Comdex is one of Saflink's best networking events, he said, and this year's changes could make the experience even better.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2001792249_comdex16.html (1129 words)

	The Seattle Times: Business & Technology: Comdex event canceled for '04
		Citing a lack of support by key players in the industry, Comdex organizers yesterday canceled the fabled technology exposition, leaving thousands of geeks with a gaping hole in their fall calendar this year.
		Microsoft, for years Comdex's largest presence, wants organizers to resume the show in 2005, but several observers said it's a stumbling dinosaur that needs an extreme makeover if it's going to survive.
		One problem was that Comdex tried to expand beyond information technology to consumer products, the territory of its flashier Vegas cousin, the Consumer Electronics Show held in January.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/businesstechnology/2001963768_comdex24.html (652 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Comdex reinventing itself
		Comdex has a long way to go if it wants to duplicate the heady days of the tech boom.
		Comdex once lured more than 200,000 people and filled more than 1.2 million square feet at its peak in the mid-1990s.
		Comdex officials admit there were many people attending the show who had no intention of buying anything.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,525039660,00.html (545 words)

	It's the end of COMDEX as we knew it
		COMDEX, and there's a lot on the surface to say that COMDEX is ready to take the biscuit, but I don't think it'll happen.
		What attracted people to COMDEX was a combination of an accident in time (the burgeoning viability of personal computing replacing mainframe/centrist models of computing), populism (we like to do computing on our own and not wait on someone else), as well as dances with wolves (Windows World's success).
		COMDEX will rise again, but my bets (this is a Las Vegas show, after all) is that someone else will be behind it.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=16791 (832 words)

	Little to cheer at Comdex - Nov. 21, 2002
		But even if Comdex survives, there were some who thought that coming back is not worth it anymore, especially since the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is held in Las Vegas in January.
		Others said that Comdex is no longer as relevant because the organizers have opened up the event to more consumers.
		Still, senior executives of major technology companies that came to Comdex were hopeful that next year would not be as bleak as this one.
	money.cnn.com /2002/11/21/technology/comdex_trade (987 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Tech slump hits Comdex
		This year, the hi-tech economy is still suffering from the hangover of the post-boom bust, and the future of Comdex is in doubt.
		He remembers when a hotel room could not be had on the Vegas strip during Comdex for less than $189.
		He has been coming to Comdex since the 1970s and has been selling computers even before there was a Comdex.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/2490423.stm (634 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Vegas Comdex canceled
		The organizers of Comdex, a computer trade show that once was the largest convention to visit Las Vegas, have removed the show from their calendar and are producing a Comdex show in Greece during the November dates normally reserved at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
		Comdex critics said they didn't expect the show ever to return, noting that no tech show that has been postponed has ever been able to rebound.
		By 1997, Comdex drew more than 225,000 people to the city and the trade show floor covered a record 1.475 million square feet at the Convention Center, the Sands Expo Center and in tents erected in their respective parking lots.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/business/2005/mar/28/518514236.html (648 words)

	Comdex 2005 Cancelled - The history and future of Comdex
		This is the second year in a row that Comdex has been cancelled at it threatens the future of the Comdex show.
		Comdex was so important to my career that I made sure time was set aside for it.
		Many claim that CES is the new Comdex or that Networld+interOp is the place to be, but both of those focus on niche parts of the technology scale and not the broad industry.
	www.yald.com /technology/0504comdexhistory.html (542 words)

	InformationWeek \| Comdex postponed until 2006 \| Comdex Trade Show Cancelled Again \| March 29, 2005
		Mar 29, 2005 07:09 PM Comdex, once one of the largest high-tech tradeshows in the world, has been cancelled for a second year, the show's owner said Tuesday.
		Comdex 2005 was cancelled despite the efforts of its owner MediaLive International Inc. to take the conference out of limbo.
		Comdex was launched in 1979 by Sheldon Adelson, who at the time was the owner of Needham, Mass.-based, Interface Group.
	informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159908066 (550 words)

	Jerry Pournelle talks of Comdex Past
		One person who's attended every Comdex in Las Vegas, and all but one of the Comdex/Spring shows, is computer columnist, science and science fiction writer Jerry E. Pournelle (Web site: www.jerrypournelle.com).
		The next year Comdex was larger and was already recognized as an important show for introducing new technology and announcing new products.
		That's what I mostly miss about Comdex, it is increasingly large enough and busy enough that it is hard to have long conversations with the people who are actually making it happen.
	www.theinquirer.net /?article=17018 (1042 words)

	Organizer cancels Comdex 2004 \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Eric Faurot, vice president of Comdex organizer MediaLive International, revealed the plans in an exclusive interview with CNET News.com, saying the company plans to give Comdex a breather after years of falling attendance, in the number of both attendees and vendors.
		Faurot said many of Comdex's problems were incubated in the dot-com bubble, when the former owners of the conference alienated exhibitors with high prices for floor space and attendees began complaining that the show had grown to unmanageable proportions.
		MediaLive last year tried to recast Comdex as a specialist show for IT managers, but the event drew only a handful of big-name exhibitors--despite modest cuts in the price of booth space--and a crowd of about 40,000 "qualified buyers," Faurot said.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9584_22-5244406.html (1132 words)

	Comdex convention tries to redefine itself (printable version)
		This year’s version of Comdex is smaller but more focused on the computer industry instead of consumer gadgets.
		Comdex once lured more than 200,000 people and filled in excess of 1.2 million square feet at its peak in the mid-1990s.
		Comdex officials admit there were lots of people attending the show who had no intention of buying anything.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=57174 (640 words)

	Comdex 2002: Getting smaller - Nov. 18, 2002
		He notes that the Comdex brand has been sold several times during its more than 20 year history so even if Key3Media were to seek bankruptcy protection, another company would probably take over Comdex.
		In prior years, Comdex was so big that it needed two other venues in addition to the Convention Center for exhibition space.
		To be sure, Comdex still attracts many of the largest tech companies and their executives.
	money.cnn.com /2002/11/15/technology/comdex_walkup (781 words)

	Comdex cancels '04 convention / Technology show suffers from drop in attendance
		Interest in Comdex reached its high point in 2000, when 200,000 tech warriors checked out the hottest new gadgets, generating $225 million in non- gambling revenue for the Las Vegas economy, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Bureau.
		"Comdex was the perfect example of the trade show world gone wild," said Michael Hart, editor in chief of Tradeshow Week magazine.
		Medialive, formerly known as Key3Media, has already started trying to narrow Comdex's focus to becoming "a focused IT business-to-business event as opposed to an event that was a broad technology showcase," Faurot said.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/24/BUG0G7AS011.DTL (756 words)

	COMDEX Fall 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The show will go on for 2 more days, but as it usually goes at this show, the first few days are the most exciting and it starts to die down as the week draws out.
		Some of my fellow Comdex goers waited in the long line for a chance to race these cars.
		I know that before I started going to Comdex, I would always want coverage not only of the new stuff, but also what it is LIKE.
	www.pcmech.com /comdex/2000/wednesday.htm (431 words)

	Comdex's Secure Side
		At the same time, Comdex failed to draw many of the major security vendors.
		Comdex typically features several small companies making outsized claims in an effort to get press attention.
		Intellectual property issues were the subject of hot debate at Comdex, both on panels and in keynotes.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/1713 (470 words)

	Comdex party tones down (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Comdex show goes on, but mood is tense
		She was one of the few keynote speakers who took questions from the audience — including queries from a start-up CEO requesting a partnership and someone seeking her autograph.
		Comdex veterans relied on the "taxi gauge" to determine how many people showed up for this year's conference.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2001/11/19/comdex-usat.htm (843 words)

	Comdex 2003: Wrap Up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Comdex, for the uninitiated, is a technology conference held in Las Vegas.
		But as slow as Comdex 2001 and Comdex 2002 were, Comdex 2003 was even slower -- at least in 2001 we had Microsoft's Windows XP launch, while in 2002 we had the Tablet PC and NVIDIA's NV30 to talk about.
		Comdex 2003's biggest announcement (from my perspective) was GeForce FX Go5700, which is an entirely new product, but trails the 5650's stealth arrival by less than three months and won't be available until 2004.
	firingsquad.com /features/comdex03 (611 words)

	ZDNet News: Comdex
		A Comdex panel proposes that the main innovation of the open-source movement isn't the creation of licensing models but the collaboration between developers.
		For those who said nothing new would be unveiled at Comdex, South Korean start-up DreamFree counters with the Peeg, a peripheral for PDAs that is said to stimulate brain activity.
		Participants in a panel discussion at Comdex agree that utility computing is more like a river than a rock, but have little luck nailing down a real definition.
	zdnet.com.com /html/z/sr/comdex.html (645 words)

	Technology News: Trends : Comdex Canceled, Future Debated
		MediaLive International today announced that Comdex Las Vegas 2004 has been "postponed." The company said the reason for the postponement is to "reshape the event" with the cooperation of IT industry leaders.
		Industry watchers already have begun to speculate that the reason Comdex was canceled is that not enough vendors purchased exhibit space to make the show worthwhile.
		Comdex staff will be contacting all confirmed sponsors, partners, exhibitors, speakers, vendors and attendees individually to inform them of the postponement.
	www.technewsworld.com /story/34714.html (576 words)

	Comdex anyone? Hello! Anybody out there?
		Comdex appears the latest victim of the combination of a recession, the terrorist attacks and fear of being a terrorist target itself.
		But on the latest Comdex floor plan there were countless booth spaces in the LVCC that remain unsold just two weeks before the show.
		In addition to economic concerns and the expected low return on investment, many companies and people are pulling out of Comdex for an even more basic reason: Comdex itself may well be a target of terrorism.
	www.ciol.com /content/news/trends/101110103.asp (938 words)

	Can Comdex Redefine Itself?
		This year, Comdex's organizers are promising to focus solely on business IT in a markedly downsized show being billed as "year one of the new Comdex." But Comdex won't be the only show vying for the attention of IT managers.
		Comdex's aim is to rebuild trust with both exhibitors and attendees that it is a premiere show for IT, not a catch-all of technology gadgets, said Eric Faurot, vice president and general manager for Comdex.
		Though Comdex itself has opted for a renewed focus on IT with a smaller show, Meckler said it's too little, too late and that it is difficult for a trade show that once was known for extravagance and largesse to redefine itself.
	www.eweek.com /article2/0,4149,1381579,00.asp (1318 words)

	PCWorld.com - No Comdex Gathering Again This Year
		MediaLive International is canceling the Las Vegas Comdex trade show for another year because it has not yet been able to rebuild the event, the company said.
		Comdex in Las Vegas was once a staple of the technology industry.
		MediaLive canceled Comdex last year due to lack of support from the biggest IT vendors.
	www.pcworld.com /resource/article/0,aid,120244,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp (361 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Is Comdex Still Relevant? - AT & T takes eBay and PayPal to court over patents - ruling makes it ...
		This week's Comdex trade show in Las Vegas could well be a metaphor for the state of the overall tech economy -- it ain't what it used to be, but depending on who's doing the handicapping, there are still promising signs of life and growth.
		Eric Faurot, Comdex's vice president and general manager, said he believes the show's audit will show attendance hit 45,000 to 50,000.
		Comdex also gave techies a chance to relive some of the over-the-top networking parties common during the boom.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2003_Nov_21/ai_110399653 (1482 words)

	CNN.com - Focusing on biometrics at Comdex - November 15, 2001
		And dozens of companies specializing in biometrics are on the massive Comdex showroom floor this year to show off what they're researching, developing, testing, calibrating and selling.
		Facial recognition, fingerprinting, iris scanning and reading the features of a hand are leading the industry's efforts at this point, but the intent -- and possibility -- is to measure any unique trait on the body that can then be recorded and act as a password or identifier.
		Tien also questions how any databases of personal information will be used, and he says the EFF would prefer to see companies use an open-source method of development in order to see first-hand how accurate the readings are.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/TECH/ptech/11/15/comdex.biometric (1249 words)

	Comdex 2001 Day 1: NVIDIA, ATi, AMD, Intel and More \| TG Daily (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Comdex attendance data always seemed inflated in the past.
		And, there are scantily clad servers waiting on you at every slot machine as you ponder your Comdex article deadlines and feed the one armed bandit your rent check.
		As we already told you in our Day 0 report from Comdex, Nvidia was keen to make sure that we knew that the new NV17M was the laptop technology of the future.
	www.tgdaily.com /2001/11/13/comdex_2001_day_1/index.html (933 words)

	Comdex skips another year \| Tech News on ZDNet
		MediaLive International, which acquired the rights to Comdex several years ago, canceled the 2004 event after several years of declining attendance, inconsistent marketing and growing competition from programs such as the Consumer Electronics Show.
		Executives at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the main venue for Comdex for several decades, confirmed earlier that most of the facility is already sold out for Comdex's usual mid-November time slot.
		Stricker said MediaLive was continuing to poll technology industry figures to gauge their interest in Comdex, but he wouldn't hazard a probability on whether a Comdex 2006 would happen.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9584_22-5645603.html (692 words)

	PC Magazine: COMDEX 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		By this I mean a situation whereby everyone in the industry would go to Vegas during COMDEX week and do what they've done before—set up shop in suites and the small ballrooms in the Venetian hotel and elsewhere.
		Let's face it, one of the things that killed COMDEX was all the poachers who set up shop in suites and elsewhere to save the expense of paying to be on the main floor.
		In the early years of the show, this was nearly impossible to do, since the promoters had locked down all the hotels and as part of the deal, none of these sideshows were allowed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdpcm/is_200411/ai_n7181957 (916 words)

	CNN.com - Technology - Comdex Coverage
		Among the promotional banners and company logos cluttering the floor here at the Comdex trade show, there are more than a few flags of a more patriotic stripe.
		Bluetooth is a hot topic at many discussions at Comdex, and though the promise of the wireless technology has yet to pan out with actual products available on the market, Microsoft Corp. is confident in its decision to put its considerable weight behind the wireless technology.
		Four years ago at Comdex, vendors offering SAN (storage area network) hardware, software and services had a muted presence, with four companies exhibiting ten products on the show floor.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/comdex2000 (652 words)

	BW Online \| November 15, 2002 \| Comdex' Troubles: Not Just Tech
		Comdex, the technology industry's annual trade show extravaganza, kicks off on Nov. 17 with its usual keynote address from Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates.
		Comdex is doing worse than other tech shows, according to data from industry publication Tradeshow Week.
		At Comdex, exhibitors and floor space were down 27% and 32%, respectively.
	www.businessweek.com /technology/content/nov2002/tc20021115_5337.htm (1185 words)

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