My CES Coverage in Canada's National Post

This week I've been busy covering the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for Postmedia News (think the AP, but Canadian).

Here's an excerpt from one of my stories that appeared in the National Post. The same story also appeared in the Regina Leader Post, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen, and Financial Post, and on canada.com

Instant gratification key to future of electronics

LAS VEGAS — Consumers should have access to content — TV shows, movies, songs, e-books, or otherwise — when they want, where they want, and they shouldn’t have to manually synchronize content between their various devices, either. This was the prevailing message at the state-of-the-industry keynote at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

“If you have subscribed to a television service — and, really, any service, magazines included... you ought to have it on demand, on every device you want,” Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes said. “And you should not have to pay extra for that.”

Bewkes also said technology should be easy to use, and consumers “shouldn’t need a PhD” to get content from one device to another.

... It gets better. Click here to read the full story.