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Often a bit more substantial than what one can pick up from the hustle and bustle of the showroom floor, the keynote speeches at the annual Consumer Electronics Show can set the tone for the year ahead. This year — apart from Microsoft's usual (but final) keynote speech — the speakers list draws heavily from mobile carriers and manufacturers as well as automakers, though stalwarts such as Xerox and General Electric are represented as well. Here's a breakdown of the keynote speakers by day. Monday: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer...

The Economic Club of Washington: AmEx chief says recovery will be slow American Express chief executive Kenneth I. Chenault submitted to the customary inquisition by Economic Club President and Carlyle Group co-founder David M. Rubenstein at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington on Monday. Chenault sees the economy continuing to recover slowly: "I don't have a great deal of confidence that there's going to be any turnaround in the near term.

The Consumer Electronics Show is winding down now, after two (well, three, if you include the media day) days of frenzied discussion over what's next in the technology world. On Thursday, the keynote speaker of the day comes not from a hardware company, but from YouTube: Robert Kyncl, who heads up its Global Content Partnerships program. The theme of the keynote is in keeping with a theme we've been seeing throughout the show: the move toward a central platform for entertainment.

As this year's Consumer Electronics Show comes to an end Friday, what were some of the major takeaways from the gadget event? The Post's Hayley Tsukayama reports : Unplug the displays and turn down the lights: International CES is closing shop Friday until next January. And while the 2013 run certainly wasn't the flashiest the trade show has ever had, there were still some major announcements and innovations. For one, nearly every presentation in this ostensibly hardware-focused show had included something on content or the connection...

At a press announcement today at CES, Palm announced a brand spankin' new handset: the Palm Pre. Running the much-gossiped new Palm WebOS (Not known as "Nova" afterall) and sporting a QWERTY slide-out keyboard below a 3.1" touchscreen, this might just be enough to get Palm out of their slump.

CES is over for CrunchGear (we'll still be posting some stragglers today and tomorrow) but we'd like to reflect on the best gear we saw at the show. These few days flew by and even with the glut of 3D TVs and ereaders we were actually impressed by a few small, good things that caught our eye on the show floor. Here are the winners of CrunchGear's Best of CES 2010 informal editor poll.

No surprises here, but Motorola and Verizon have just announced the 0.5-inches thick LTE Droid 4. The Droid 4 has a 4-inch, qHD display with a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of onboard memory. Additionally, the 8 megapixel camera can shoot 1080p, HD video. There is no specific availability but it should be making its way to Verizon in the coming weeks. Developing... Related: Consumer Electronics Show: Complete Coverage PHOTOS: Coolest gadgets unveiled at CES CES organizers...

Cars are among the final frontiers for consumer technology. While there are several models with built-in GPS and other features, the idea of the truly connected car still eludes automakers. Ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mercedes-Benz was pushing its connected car software, the mbrace 2, which brings apps, cloud computing and Web browsing right into its vehicles. The mbrace system also connects to drivers' smartphones to allow them to lock, unlock and find your car with their mobile device.

It's been another harsh day in the CES trenches, and as usual the CrunchGear team has put out a veritable cornucopia of content. Today was particularly notable for interviews: we got Mark Cuban and Bud Mayo, Dr. Dre , and Les Stroud of Survivorman in front of the camera to talk about the future of HD, DRM, and ruggedized camera gear. There were also, of course, a number of hands-ons: The prototype "Eeeboard" touchscreen+keyboard (a world first on CrunchGear)

Unplug the displays and turn down the lights: International CES is closing shop Friday until next January. And while the 2013 run certainly wasn't the flashiest the trade show has ever had, there were still some major announcements and innovations. For one, nearly every presentation in this ostensibly hardware-focused show had included something on content or the connection of devices in a wider ecosystem. That made for fewer whiz-bang, head-turning announcements, but it did sketch a fuller picture of how technology could...

As the Consumer Electronics Show winds down, technology innovators gave a glimpse into the world they are creating. Hayley Tsukayama wrote : The gadgetry world gathered in Las Vegas this week to show off their best ideas for how technology can solve problems, improve daily life and basically make the world more efficient. There's always a deluge of products coming out of the International CES show, so it can be hard to see how adopting all of this tech could actually change your daily...

The gadgetry world gathered in Las Vegas this week to show off their best ideas for how technology can solve problems, improve daily life and basically make the world more efficient. There's always a deluge of products coming out of the International CES show, so it can be hard to see how adopting all of this tech could actually change your daily life. But that's exactly the vision of CES, at a high level. Tech could transform nearly every part of your life. Take a normal Saturday routine.

The speeches have wound down at the International CES tech show, and Thursday the press will focus on those working the floor booths and demonstrating the products. Show attendees will now have more time to review what they've seen — and to name their winners and losers from the show. CNET is announcing the results of its annual "Best of CES" contest Thursday at 2 p.m., after picking their finalists from the show floor on Wednesday. Car technology and wearable health...

Hundreds of new gadgets come out of the Consumer Electronics Show every year -- but to hear some inventors and tech companies talk, thousands of baseless patent suits come out of it, too. "Patent trolling," the practice of buying up scores of little-known patents solely to sue others for infringement, is hardly a new phenomenon. By some accounts, patent litigation has been on a steady upward slope for nearly 20 years . But 2013 marks the first year that the issue has been taken up...

Samsung's aiming to make smartphone tech a little less rigid with the introduction of new, flexible screens that can be used in smartphones and tablets to make them more resilient. In the keynote presentation at the tConsumer Electronics Show, Samsung device head Stephen Woo and lab lead Brian Berkeley showed off bendable, rollable, foldable displays with several concept devices. The flexible screens, which Samsung has branded as Youm, are designed to have displays as...

The CES tech show may have only kicked off this week, but chances are there are already some people who are sick of hearing about every new gadget that may, possibly, hit the market in the next decade. Yes, CES gets a bad rap these days — and there are a lot of reasons why. Major companies pull out of the show to set their own announcement agendas (see: Apple, Microsoft). And many of the show's "hot products" of the year don't always pan out in the real world (see: ultrabooks), have super limited appeal, or...

At the Consumer Electronics Show this year, electronics makers such as Samsung and Panasonic are taking on social TV. The Post's Caitlin Dewey reports : There was a time when TV check-in apps such as Viggle and Get Glue seemed edgy and cool. But the latest talk from the Consumer Electronics Show promises to push social TV way beyond apps, building social media into program plotlines, ad sales and even TV interfaces. For TV executives and manufacturers alike, the "second screen" phenomenon...