Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft's Business Division, is calling it quits after 26 years at the company, announcing his retirement today.  He'll be replaced by Stephen Elop, who most recently served as Juniper Network's chief operating officer.   Read More

Let me be perfectly upfront about this:  I didn't want to go to the Adult Entertainment Expo at the Sands Convention Center today.  I didn't. I was ready to file a few more times from the Consumer Electronics Show today and then fly home, when my assignment suddenly changed last night.     Read More

WiMAX is going to be very big for Intel, this year. So to see the promise the technology holds, I went out in the WiMAX car, sponsored by Intel and running off a temporary network built by Clearwire. It was a five-mile drive around town, during which I was connected to the Internet (getting far better speeds than my hotel room).   Read More

Some electronics retailers had huge success in 2007, but the year left others bruised. A CES retail panel featured executives from both kinds of companies.   Read More

So why is GM CEO Rick Wagoner making his first-ever presentation at CES? In a word: Sync. Ford's collaboration with Microsoft to bring limited computing capabilities to the automobile has created quite a buzz.    Read More

I know games such as Activision's "Guitar Hero" are off the charts, but they have led to an odd phenomenon: Not only are real guitar players competing against fake guitar players. Real guitar companies are now making fake guitars   Read More

Ford Motor has signed up some tech heavyweights to help with "Sync," its in-car satellite communications system, and they showed off the goods at CES in Las Vegas. With help from Microsoft, Sirius and others, Ford's car of the very near future is something like a GPS, digital music player, cell phone and voice recognition system on wheels.    Read More

Welcome to the belly of the beast, Central Hall at the Consumer Electronics Show. Some 140,000 people will be making their way through this part of the Convention Center. That's 280,000 feet all looking to step on mine.   Read More

Intel will get in touch with it's "mid" tonight -- as in mobile internet device -- a key initiative that CEO Paul Otellini talked to me about exclusively earlier today.   Read More

Certainly one of the hottest technologies at this year's CES is the 27-inch Organic Light Emitting Diode television by Sony, which is just three millimeters thick.   Read More