From my view, 2 of the most talked about “products” in the conference sessions at CES were openness and sharing. These concepts were mentioned over and over in sessions dealing with topics as diverse as multiplatform content delivery, personalized TV and next generation wireless. Speakers from well known (and not so open) companies like Microsoft, Comcast and Verizon were in a modest frenzy to demonstrate or at least pre-announce their openness and sharing plans. Microsoft proudly touted the number of developers using their IPTV platform to build consumer offerings, while reminding would-be developers that they still had to sell their inventions to the service providers before they would see the light of day.

we’ll see if that lasts, but it is encouraging

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