Today, I was very upset because we had to walk 20 minutes from the car park to the booth. The planners did not think about people as much as they should. Since we were to tired yesterday, I had to update the First Day, afternoon report this morning, so not much news to report. I hope I can leave the booth a little today and take more pictures. Yesterday I managed to visit 3 out of 26 Halls. At this rate, I¥ll never make all halls until the show closes.
I am editing this page in Acrobat! How extremely cool!
But now, todays highlights:
At our booth, people are coming and going. Here are Paul Pabst and Klaus Baldig, two employees of the company:
Some companies have so much money to burn that they build their own halls!
And they can afford to sink thousands of dollars in extravaganzas like this fashion show: (What the hell does that have to do with telecom?)
Other companies use ice to draw attention:
Hermstedt is another Mac minded company showing ISDN products. It is cool that Apple choose Hermstedt¥s ci color as one of the iMac colors:
SuSE is showing Linux running on an iBook. Although they claim that Linux DOES NOT run faster than the Mac OS because the GNU compiler is not optimized for PowerPC:
Another cool product: James is a device that you can control over the internet and connects to your household devices. Switch on the light and start the coffee machine over the web. When they go WAP, you¥ve got a universal remote control for your home:
The Expo will take place in Hannover from June, and of course they are advertising:
Lara Croft ALIVE:
and the geeks go nuts:
There is an area devoted to Technology Transfer from the universities to the industry, something which is very rare in Europe and needs special promotion. At these booths you can find scary things:
That¥s it for today. Tomorrow, we will have a TV appearance!