3 Reasons Marketers Should Attend CES Next Year

I have a long-standing love-hate relationship with CES. I’ve been going annually for at least a dozen years because it is an important event for the consumer technology clients I’ve worked with like Samsung, Toshiba, Sandisk and HERE. But over the past two years the event has been drawing marketers who want to explore how new technology will be impacting their consumers’ lives and enabling new engagement opportunities.

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From the High-Flying to the Practical: CES 2016 in Brief by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS


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This year’s CES gadget show, like ones before it, showed off a mix of the dreamy and the practical in technology. Gadget prototypes promised us fully autonomous vehicles carrying commuters on the streets and in the sky, while gizmos went on sale that…

Published: January 8, 2016 at 08:14AM

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YouTube will show HDR video on your fancy new TV

LG's new Signature OLED is one of the first TVs to support HDR. Photo: LGCES has brought us a whole host of new TVs that support HDR video, but like 4K, the content isn’t easy to come by right now. Fortunately, Google is going to change that by making HDR video available through YouTube. You’re probably already familiar with the term “HDR,” because changes are your smartphone camera lets you

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CES 2016: Video Streaming — It’s Going To Be Big

The data is pretty compelling. Meerkat has more than two-million registered users and Twitter?s Periscope App has two-million daily active users and says they watch 40 years-worth video every day. Now Facebook is adding streaming functionality to its massive social network. Can brands find a way to embrace live streaming?

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Lenovo Vibe K4 Note got 200,000 registrations in India already

Lenovo made the Vibe K4 Note official in India earlier this week, after a teaser campaign. The phone will become available on January 19 by itself, and starting on January 20 bundled with a VR headset. It will be offered through flash sales carried out on Amazon, for which you need to register in advance.

And in just 3 days from the start of registrations, more than 200,000 have been received by the retailer. This means plenty of people are interested in the K4 Note. Furthermore, registrations for the VR bundle have been closed ten days ahead of plan because of the overwhelming response seen in the first two days.

You can still register to buy the handset by itself, however, and you’ll be able to do that all the way up until January 18. Lenovo hasn’t said how many K4 Note units will be up for grabs in the first flash sale.

The Vibe K4 Note comes with a 5.5-inch 1080p touchscreen, a 13 MP rear camera, a 5 MP selfie snapper, 3GB of RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, the MediaTek MT6753 SoC with a 1.3 GHz octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU, and a 3,300 mAh battery. It runs Android 5.1 Lollipop. It’s priced at INR 11,999…

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