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	<title>Consumer Electronics Show Blog - San Jose Mercury News</title>
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	<description>Complete coverage of the 2007 CES show in Las Vegas from the San Jose Mercury News.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<itunes:summary>Complete coverage of the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show from the San Jose Mercury News.</itunes:summary>
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		<itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture" />
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			<itunes:email>blogs@mercurynews.com</itunes:email>
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		<title>She knows when to hold ‘em and when to fold ‘em</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/10/she-knows-when-to-hold-em-and-when-to-fold-em/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/10/she-knows-when-to-hold-em-and-when-to-fold-em/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barreda</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General News</category>
	<category>Parties</category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Our own Merc business reporter and CES blogger, Nicole Wong, is a heck of a poker player. Despite her only having played poker twice in the last year, Nicole sat down at the Sony-sponsored Texas Hold&#8217;em tournament with $2,500 &#8220;dollars&#8221; worth of chips and turned it into $21,800...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Premiere shakin’</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/10/shakin-it-for-intel/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/10/shakin-it-for-intel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barreda</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General News</category>
	<category>Video</category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[People were shakin&#8217; their booty over at the Intel booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Using Adobe Premiere Elements a team of exhibiters were eliciting audience participation for a little cutting of the proverbial rug. With some thumping music in the background dancers made fools of...]]></content:encoded>
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		<itunes:subtitle>People were shakin' their booty over at the Intel booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Using Adobe Premiere Elements a team of exhibiters were ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>People were shakin' their booty over at the Intel booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Using Adobe Premiere Elements a team of exhibiters were eliciting audience participation for a little cutting of the proverbial rug. With some thumping music in the background dancers made fools of themselves to tunes on a green stage for about a minute while 4 video cameras recorded their every move and sent the feed to a PC. Minutes later the dancers received their post-processed dance footage on a USB thumbdrive. You've just got to see these moves!</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Poker star Phil Gordon gambles with Cisco</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/10/poker-star-phil-gordon-gambles-with-cisco/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/10/poker-star-phil-gordon-gambles-with-cisco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Jane Tribble</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General News</category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Cisco Systems invited 50 of its top cable clients to a charity poker event Tuesday, luring them with the presence of two-time world poker champion and Phil Gordon.
Gordon - a former Cisco employee - joked that he wasn&#8217;t cut out for the corporate life. After Cisco bought his employer in the...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>3 Doors Down plays at ESPN HD booth</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/3-doors-down-plays-at-espn-hd-booth/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/3-doors-down-plays-at-espn-hd-booth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Swartz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General News</category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The band 3 Doors Down just got offstage here at CES, and their performance was pretty good. They are the biggest band playing here this year, and their platinum 2005 album &#8220;Seventeen Days&#8221; debuted at #1 on the charts. Word on the street is, the music here isn&#8217;t as good as last...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Apple’s new stuff is gawked at from CES</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/apples-new-stuff-is-gawked-at-from-ces/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/apples-new-stuff-is-gawked-at-from-ces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Swartz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General News</category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[There were some iMacs hanging around near the ESPNHD stage, and people were flocking to them to check out the newest Apple stuff. As we now know, Apple Inc. (as they are heretofore named) unveiled their iPhone (Cingular only, $499 and $599 with plan, ouch!) and their iTV. There has also been...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Honda’s Asimo Runs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/hondas-asimo-runs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/hondas-asimo-runs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barreda</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General News</category>
	<category>Video</category>
	<category>Robots</category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Honda showed off its running robot for the first time in the US. It can now walk forward and backwards, run, kick a soccer ball, walk up and down stairs. Take a look.]]></content:encoded>
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		<itunes:subtitle>Honda showed off its running robot for the first time in the US. It can now walk forward and backwards, run, kick a soccer ball, ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>Honda showed off its running robot for the first time in the US. It can now walk forward and backwards, run, kick a soccer ball, walk up and down stairs. Take a look.</itunes:summary>
		<itunes:keywords>General News, Video, Robots</itunes:keywords>
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		<title>Junk in the trunk: the cars of CES</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/junk-in-the-trunk-the-cars-of-ces/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/junk-in-the-trunk-the-cars-of-ces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Swartz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General News</category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a quick gallery of some of the cars that exhibitors have done up to promote their products. More photos after the jump.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Intel’s WSVG All Stars Quake IV match: Toxic versus Clamp OK</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/intels-wsvg-all-stars-quake-iv-match-toxic-versus-clamp-ok/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/intels-wsvg-all-stars-quake-iv-match-toxic-versus-clamp-ok/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Swartz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General News</category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Intel&#8217;s tent had some great setups today, with their XPS laptops running Quake IV (networked with a bunch of other PC&#8217;s in the tent for quick multiplayer), full size Indy car simulators, and a host of other diversions for CES goers. On their central stage they were showcasing a World...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Best Buy offers $15,000 Home Automation package</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/best-buy-offers-15000-home-automation-package/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/best-buy-offers-15000-home-automation-package/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Swartz</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General News</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/best-buy-offers-15000-home-automation-package/</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Best Buy is now selling a package that allows you to spiff up your home with no major infrastructure upgrades. For $14,999, Best Buy will come to your house and install an HP Media Center Home server, as well as equip your entire house to take advantage of it. You can access the Media Center [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Vista’s fountain show at the Bellagio</title>
		<link>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/vistas-fountain-show-at-the-bellagio/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/vistas-fountain-show-at-the-bellagio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Barreda</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General News</category>
	<category>Video</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.mercurynews.com/ces/2007/01/09/vistas-fountain-show-at-the-bellagio/</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Bellagio hosted a Microsoft sponsored fountain show in front of the Las Vegas hotel Monday night. The demonstration was the last piece the first of four live demonstrations around the world in a puzzle of an online game http://vanishingpointgame.com/. Spectators said the game was started...]]></content:encoded>
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		<itunes:subtitle>The Bellagio hosted a Microsoft sponsored fountain show in front of the Las Vegas hotel Monday night. The demonstration was the last piece the first ...</itunes:subtitle>
		<itunes:summary>The Bellagio hosted a Microsoft sponsored fountain show in front of the Las Vegas hotel Monday night. The demonstration was the last piece the first of four live demonstrations around the world in a puzzle of an online game http://vanishingpointgame.com/. Spectators said the game was started quietly by Microsoft with a challenge to its players posted on a Microsoft blog: "You probably won't be smart enough to figure this out." Click on the image to see virtually the whole show.

Read Dean's post about the event.
CORRECTION: As one attentive reader pointed out, this demonstration was not the last piece in the entire puzzle, but a part of the last stage of the puzzle. Las Vegas held the first live event last night, but there will be three more held in cities around the world in the next three weeks. We stand corrected.</itunes:summary>
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