CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW

Japan's scandal-ridden Olympus Corp is considering an equity alliance with five prospective investors, including electronics groups Sony, Panasonic and Samsung Electronics.

A series of top technology professionals involved with Internet TV, including VPs of Yahoo, Cisco Systems and Western Digital, warned consumer acceptance will be impede unless industry standards are adopted.

House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) may have had a tin ear when he proposed the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act now wending through Congress, his fellow Republican, Rep. Darrell Issa of California, says.

Ford CEO Alan Mulally and Xerox CEO Ursula Burns both decried the state of U.S. higher education Wednesday and said it wasn't producing enough engineers to ensure U.S. technology leadership.

Just because Apple isn't officially attending CES 2012 doesn't mean its presence isn't felt. Rumors are heating up that Apple's next-gen iPad 3 is actually be at the event. That rumor isn't confirmed, but what IS confirmed is that about 250 Apple employees are secretly making their rounds at the event, quietly judging their competition.

Apple has not attended the Consumer Electronics Show for many years (not officially, anyway), but TechCrunch writer MG Siegler wrote Apple stole the show before it even began. Siegler said it's because any devices coming out of the show would just be compared to Apple products anyway, so Apple wins

Las Vegas -- Although it might not been much different from robots we've seen in the past, the dancing robot by the TP-LINK section stole the first day of the 2012 International CES.

Dell Inc intends to launch its first consumer tablet computer in late 2012, marking its entry into a hotly contested and increasingly crowded arena that has already claimed arch-foe Hewlett Packard.

The Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, which was released for Verizon Wireless at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Monday, will be considered the overachiever of the Razr family in coming days, said Motorola.

Nokia has launched its third smartphone under the Lumia series - Lumia 900 - at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

As a tech giant, even though Apple didn't attend the CES 2012, its powerful influence hasn't waned.

The Nokia Lumia 900, which was launched at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Monday, is expected to provide tough competition for all iPhones and Android-powered devices. The company believes the latest Lumia could take a large bite out of market shares from other smartphones and could be considered the industry's benchmark in coming days.

Xbox 720 Arriving at E3 2012

The best of Intel computing is coming to smartphones, Otellini told his CES keynote audience.Our efforts with Lenovo and Motorola Mobility will help to establish Intel processors in smartphones and provide a solid foundation from which to build in 2012 and into the future, added the CEO, as per the report.

If it were 1992, IBM might well have been one of the biggest exhibitors at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There would have been a huge display of IBM PCs, software and printers, even though the printer unit had been sold the year before.

The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is a spectacular event, but two major failings take away from the magic of the annual convention.

Apple Inc, famous for giving CES the cold shoulder year after year, will field a larger presence at the world's largest trade show than many observers imagine.

Las Vegas -- The Jersey Shore's Snooki showed off her new 98-pound frame at the 2012 International CES on Tuesday afternoon.

Intel, the No. 1 chip maker, will make a major push into the smartphone sector, even as it continues its headway in the laptop and tablet market with its second-generation Ultrabook chip, CEO Paul Otellini said.

This year's Consumer Electronics Show has given rise to two new smart watches; the Sony Smart Watch and the I'm Watch from I'm SpA. Sony's Smart Watch is a descendant of the Sony Ericsson LiveView, and you can clip the watchface to any band if you want.

Corning announced their new all-purpose scratch resistant glass for mobile devices, Gorilla Glass 2. It's thinner and lighter than the original, so by the end of the year we could have some lighter and thinner devices. Corning said Gorilla Glass 2 is 20% stronger and 20% thinner than the original, and Corning even set up an experiment at the Consumer Electronics Show, Jan. 9 to show how tough it was.