http://www.cntrstg.com The Place To Be Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:56:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Unfortunately and with great regret, we are sad to inform you that we will not be holding CntrStg at CES 2010. However, we will be focusing our efforts and resources at other shows for the 2010 year. Due to several unforseen circumstances including a large reduction in blogger attendance at ... http://www.cntrstg.com/blog/2010/01/cntrstg-and-ces-2010/ 2 weeks ago Jack Cook (ExperienceMobility.com), Steven Hughes(BostonPocketPC.com) and I went to visit Boston-Power. We had an amazing time there. They showed how the company was made and what their vision is for the future. We first met Christina Lampe-Onnerud and Boston-Power at CntrStg during the CES 2009 in Las ... http://www.cntrstg.com/news/2009/03/hs-enviro-series-of-notebook-batteries-by-boston-power/ Boston Power made their presence during CntrStg at CES with a great presentation about their future in longer lasting batteries. Just last week they announced that they are adding $55 Million in Growth Capital. "The Funding Will Fuel Lithium-Ion Battery Developer’s Global Expansion of Manufacturing, Sales, Marketing and R&D. The Investment Follows ... http://www.cntrstg.com/news/2009/01/boston-power-adds-55-million-in-growth-capital/ After an extremely busy week, CntrStg has closed it's doors on CES 2009. We played host to 15 sessions allowing companies like HP and AMD to provide detailed technical knowledge directly to the blogger community. We also hosted 3 different community events, including the ever popular Tablet PC Meetup. As ... http://www.cntrstg.com/ces-2009/2009/01/cntrstg-at-ces-2009-was-a-success/ Here is a list of articles that have been written by community leaders / bloggers about sessions and events they attended here at CntrStg during CES 2009. If you would like to have your article listed here, please send the link to Events @ CntrStg.com and we will do our best to add it ... http://www.cntrstg.com/ces-2009/2009/01/community-articles/ We had John Samborski from Ace Computers  talk about their new AMD powered Maui system which is an affordabe clear QAM enabled Media Center with a built-in Audio Pre-Amp for under $1000. He gave us a very detailed description of what went into creating a high-end media center computer that is affordable for ... http://www.cntrstg.com/blog/2009/01/ace-computers-cntrstg/ The last presentation before the Tablet PC Meetup took place at CNTRSTG with two representatives from ACE. John Samborski, Vice President, chatted with those in attendance about an affordable Media Center PC.  ACE has more certified platforms authorized with Cable Labs than any other firm, including multi-national firms. ... http://www.cntrstg.com/ces-2009/2009/01/an-ace-is-a-winning-card/ After our lunch sponsored by ProClip we had MegaZone from Sling Media came in to talk about the new mobile Blackberry client and the iPhone announcement at MacWorld. The iPhone client price has not been set yet and will be in the App Store by the end of the quarter.  He ... http://www.cntrstg.com/blog/2009/01/sling-media-cntrstg/ After a great lunch provided by ProClip, Sling Media sat down and chatted with a group of influencers to talk about what they are doing and where they will be going. Of course some folks prefer to rest a bit after lunch and chat about all ... http://www.cntrstg.com/ces-2009/2009/01/lunch-sling-media-social-gatherings-and-work/ Today we have Greg Sullivan, Senior Product Manager for Windows Mobile In the last year there were 20 million sales Windows Mobile devices with 11 phones selling over 1 million each. So Microsoft realizes that one size doesn't fit all people like choice. Greg provided a detailed discussion of what was briefly ... http://www.cntrstg.com/blog/2009/01/windows-mobile-cntrstg/