CES chief muses on what to expect this year

Consumer Electronics Association CEO Gary Shapiro talks big numbers when he describes this year's Consumer Electronics Show, which takes over Las Vegas next week.

He is expecting more than 140,000 visitors who will collectively crisscross the more than 1.8 million net square feet of exhibit space and visit more than 2,700 exhibitors.

For one company, this CES will be its last. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will give the opening keynote at CES 2012. But the company announced last month that in 2013, it will no longer host a booth or lead a keynote there.

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Buzz Out Loud 1572: 2012 Predictions Show (Podcast)

It's our annual prediction extravaganza! Stephen, the All-Seeing Eye, NostraTongus, and Molly the Mage look into 2012 and guess at which companies, which gadgets, and which trends will appear, die, expand, or maybe just go horribly wrong. Spoiler: we all think Facebook will IPO.

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Buzz Out Loud 1571: Bon Voyage Microsoft! (Podcast)

It's Microsoft's last CES, we say goodbye, and will it have any major impact on the worlds largest electronics show. Short answer. No. The vote on SOPA gets delayed until 2012, just in time to try to make people forget. Plus, some of the Top 10 lists from the internet meme world! We love you Nyan Cat!

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Android Atlas Weekly 78: Results and predictions

We take a look back at last year's Android predictions and take our best guesses for what to look for in 2012.

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Antuan’s 2011 Predictions List

Google will begin to work on better in-car connectivity for Android devices to help encourage use of its Maps app and to gain ground from Apple and its iPhone. They’ve already started taking jabs at in-car navigation, so maybe they want to move to replace it

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Dialed In episode 204: The mighty Galaxy Nexus has landed! (podcast)

There we were last week, minding our own business, when Verizon surprised us all by announcing it would release its Galaxy Nexus flagship phone the following day.

Well, we hopped to it and managed to get a device early and publish the first review of the phone. It's a good one. The very same day, Brian got his hands all over the Nokia Lumia 710, a Windows Phone that's launching at T-Mobile--and he can't believe it costs only $50. We also follow RIM into the dark, dark depths of its decline in this, our last episode of … Read more

CNET Labscast 13: Onward to CES 2012, but first... (podcast)

We discuss our personal tech hits and misses of 2011; what we loved, hated and was overrated. Also, Scott and Ty weigh in on what will most likely be going on at CES 2012; the who, the what, and the why.

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CNET Roadside Assistance 038: How often should you really change your oil? (podcast)

The best GPS you can load on your phone, how often you should change your oil in the real world, don't trust that self-braking car with your life (or someone else's) and adding remote start and seat heaters the right way.

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EPISODE 38 SHOW NOTES

Reporters' Roundtable: Debating the CNET 100

Ok, kids, it's the last Roundtable of the year, so let's wrap things up by talking about CNET Reviews' big year-end extravaganza, the CNET 100.

It's a great feature with 10 great lists, like "10 disappointments," and "10 forgettables," among the usual stuff like, "The winners," and "The beautiful ones."

The big question: Why, oh why, is Apple represented so heavily in all the lists, including the bad ones?

Our roundtablers today are CNET Reviews' new editor-in-chief Lindsey Turrentine, and CNET Reviews executive editor John Falcone.

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Buzz Out Loud 1570: The Galaxy Nexus has landed in America (Podcast)

Today on Buzz Out Loud we are joined by the Rumor Has It girls Karyne Levy and Emily Dreyfuss. The Galaxy Nexus has crash landed in America and SOPA is set for a vote on amendments today in the Washington. We play a round of Into It..Not Into It and discuss what the world searched on Google in 2011.

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