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The Green Life live from Natural Products Expo West
Source: The Green Life

The Green Life's first report on the Natural Products Expo West, a giant trade show that's set up shop within spitting distance of Disneyland. Sounds like a big eco/sustainability/green/hippie fest with lots of free samples- good times :)

Best of CES 2009(2)
Source: CEDmagazine.com

This is a great wrap-up of CES!

Macworld 2009 to be Apple's last, no Jobs keynote
Source: Yahoo! Tech - Daily Features

Well, no wonder there wasn't much buzz around Macworld this year. Turns out Jobs won't even be at the keynote next month, and after that, Apple plans on skipping the event (if it's still around, that is) altogether. The news came in a surprise press release late this afternoon.

Russian firm banned from using scantily clad women at Farnborough air show
Source: the Mail online

A new cold war broke out last night after after a Russian jet engine manufacturer was banned from using scantily clad dancers to attract customers to their stand at the Farnborough air show.

BlogWorld Expo: If Not For Bloggers Blogging, it Would be Like it Never Happened (Poll)

Last week I attended the BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas, supposed the the first major trade show for bloggers and other new media industries.

Southern California Business Associations Join Together for Largest Business Event of Its Kind
Source: Market Wire

Thirty-Five Los Angeles area chambers of commerce and business organizations will bring together business professionals representing hundreds of industries and companies throughout Southern California to provide the ultimate networking experience.

Arizona Trade Show Display Company Receives Award for Innovative Office Wall Design
Source: Market Wire

E&E Exhibits Solutions has found a new way to make office space livable yet functional: Using trade show displays as cubicle walls!

Rocky Mountain Innovators Wanted
Source: Suite101

Entrepreneurs in the Rocky Mountain West area of the U.S. wanted to present at a newly business created conference for innovating professionals.

Hybrid Excavator Makes US Debut At World of Concrete
Source: enr.ecnext.com

Taking a leadership role in fuel conservation and global warming was New Holland, a division of Lake Forest, Ill.-based CNH Global N.V.

No Pictures of the Displays!
Source: Wired News

While some of the major companies here at CES are delighted to let the press take photos of their wares, others are not.

Plugging the Trade Show Dollar Drain

Trade shows eat 40 – 60 percent of most marketing budgets.

Miniskirts steal limelight at Japan tech trade show
Source: USA Today

Forget the giant flat-screen TVs and snazzy mobile phones. At Japan's biggest technology trade show on Friday, Wataru Tatebayashi, 35, aimed his camera at the women in miniskirts lining up in front of the gadgets to wave visitors goodbye.

Nintendo backs 'smaller E3 show'
Source: BBC News

A lot has been said about the considerably smaller and potentially less flamboyant 2007 E3 Show. Nintendo is the first of the big three games console manufacturers to confirm it will attend the smaller E3 show in Los Angeles in 2007. So that's got to be some good news.

Crashing the Wiretapper's Ball
Source: Wired News

CRYSTAL CITY, Virginia -- The dingy hotel corridor was populated with suits, milling about and radiating airs of defensive hostility. They moved in close-knit groups, rounding a stranger or a rival group conspicuously, the way cats do. They spoke in whispers.

Marijuana show aims for new high in Amsterdam
Source: reuter.uk.com

Marijuana growers gathered in Europe's pot-smoking capital on Sunday for a trade show that is taking on the trappings of a major industry fair, complete with scantily clad models, glossy brochures and, of course, samples.

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