Go Straight to the Intl. CES Source

Michael Hart -- Tradeshow Week, 2/19/2007

Dear Editor:

Re: "Confabb Offers Two Shows Simultaneously" (Jan. 22, 2007)

Your article on the 2007 Intl. CES captured the buzz and excitement surrounding the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow, but it improperly suggested that a third-party Web site, Confabb.com, is the best option for real-time monitoring of CES news and events. Indeed, we believe fewer than a dozen people even logged onto the CES-Macworld Web site to give their views. Scores of blogs and Web sites gave deeper coverage to these events.

While thousands of consumer electronics industry professionals attend Intl. CES in person, we also make a wide array of officially produced content available on our own robust and dynamic event Web site, CESweb.org, for those unable to make the show. We also provide an online event tool called MyCES, which allows attendees to connect with their preferred product and service providers before, during and after the show.

Confabb.com, which is not a partner of Intl. CES and thus does not have access to official show content, simply did not offer the dynamic CES coverage and audience numbers posted by our own Web site, or even those of bloggers and podcasters in attendance at CES.

We work hard to provide the most comprehensive web-based information about Intl. CES to the consumer electronics community around the world. Through official portals of the Consumer Electronics Assn. and its partners, anyone can get the most accurate, complete and up-to-the-minute show information online.

Karen Chupka, Senior vice president, events and conferences, Consumer Electronics Assn., Arlington, Va.

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