Comdex Canceled For 2004

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 23, 2004 @07:30AM from the who-moved-the-cheese dept.

Stephen Shankland writes "Comdex is canceled -- at least for 2004. The once-imposing tech event lost out to trade shows for specialized niches and consumer electronics, but the Comdex organizers want to bring it back in 2005, according to an executive quoted in our story at CNET News.com."

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Re:WHHHAAAATTTT!!!!!!!! by The+Angry+Mick · 2004-06-23 07:44 · Score: 2, Informative
Is there a way to bypass the conference go right for the swag?

Yep:
- Here or
- Here.
Of course, you may have to actually pay for the stuff this time . . .
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No way by sulli · 2004-06-23 08:08 · Score: 3, Informative

People might give security as an excuse, but it's a big fat lie. It's all about the bucks. Trade shows are simply a waste of money in this day and age.

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Re:Oh no! by RobotRunAmok · 2004-06-23 08:12 · Score: 3, Informative

Has anyone heard about whether or not the AVN awards will follow suit!?

You're confusing Comdex with January's CES, which is always the week leading up to the Adult Video News (Porn's Oscars) in Vegas.

(It frightens me that I know this...)
Re:all trade shows are suffering bad. by telemonster · 2004-06-23 08:16 · Score: 2, Informative

ITEC shot themselves in the foot. Our local unix users group in Southeastern Virginia participated a year or two ago. We gave out about 400 sets of free linux CDs, had a good attendance and were welcomed by both the visitors and show staff.

Then the next year, cold sholder. "We want to act more like a training event" was the message. ITEC thought they could charge $400 admission and run some educational material to try to clue-i-fy IT managers or something.

Whatever. Garbage in, Garbage out. It was fun the one year.

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Re:Was already dead by Halfbaked+Plan · 2004-06-23 13:24 · Score: 2, Informative

The Legacy word processor was cannibalized and turned into WordStar for Windows. I had a new shrinkwrapped box of it and sold it on eBay to a collector.

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