3. The Big Story - Not!

Maybe there's a hot story ready to be revealed - like last year's pre-emptive launch of draft-802.11g wireless by Broadcom. But if there is, it's really being kept under wraps. The news wires are quiet, and the Media room literature bins very empty.

The pre-show buzz says that Microsoft is expected to keep pushing its Tablet PC, and Dell will reportedly show a new digital TV and a printer or two. AMD will try to build more buzz for its 64bit processor family, but beyond that, who knows?

As far as Networking products are concerned, most of the activity seems to be in Networked Attached Storage (NAS). In addition to Iomega's introduction last week, Gateway and BuffaloTechnology are also introducing SOHO NAS drives.

I think it's too early to be seeing any UltraWideBand (UWB) products. But then, I thought it was too early for 802.11g last year, and look what's happened in the past year!

Keep an eye on our News section where I'll be posting announcements as I get them. Since I don't expect a whole lot of networking announcements, I may stray a bit and report on other interesting products that I come across. And I should be back with more commentary tomorrow... given there's enough to comment on!