Gear galore at CES

 

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From Net appliances to home networking to game consoles, tech companies will show off their latest gear and unveil new strategies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which kicks off this weekend.

PC makers invade CES Jim Barry, Consumer Electronics Association Philips to build Internet appliance guts Philips Components is set to unveil its plans to make it easier for manufacturers to build Internet appliances. Home networking gets a jump start from new tech With an eye to the future, companies will tout new advances in home networking in hopes of taking ideas from the drawing board into the living room. PC giants to grab spotlight at electronics show video After grim holiday sales of PCs, the giants of the computer world are laying their bets on smaller, cheaper devices to drive future sales. Unauthorized Xbox pictures hit the Web Gaming sites post what they claim are the first pictures of Microsoft's future game console, the Xbox, much to the annoyance of the software giant.