The show we love to hate says it is on a growth trajectory. Deutsche Messe AG managing board member Ernst Raue thanks CeBIT's increased efficiency (refering to their efforts to help exhibitors target customers even more precisely, creating new business).

Raue wants you to know a large number of market leaders have already confirmed their presence at the show. Some are even planning an increase in stand size. The market has been concerned in the past about CeBIT's dwindling ranks. CeBIT dropped from 6000+ exhibitors at its peak - 4157 took part Read more...

COMDEX, once one of the hottest trade shows in the business, is relaunching - as a virtual event. 

Taking place in November 16 and 17, the show will focus on its roots as a computer dealer's exhibition, presenting tech companies and industries. 

UBM CEO David Levin says the virtual COMDEX is serving its core customers, the IT channel, value-added resellers, ISVs and distributors.

This year's theme is "New Business Solutions: Embracing Disruptive Technologies & Changing Delivery Models." The event presents 12 content tracks addressing the most Read more...

Heinz Nixdorf died on the fairgrounds at CeBIT. That thought keeps coming back to me. And he probably had minions to carry his bags.

It's 8pm on the evening before CeBIT 2010 officially opens and I am exhausted from laboriously dragging my too-many bags from the train station at Hannover-Laatzen across the people-mover bridge to the Hannover fairgrounds.

All the important folks are in warm seats at the Opening Ceremony but I am late, cold and walking into the show. The Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, is on stage tonight which tells you how important the CeBIT show is in Germany.

I descend from the covered people-mover that arches high over the flat landscape, wondering if my final distance will be 2km or 4 km by the time I reach my Hall. CeBIT takes the measure of a man.

Outdoors now, the cold hits me. It's a penetrating Northern cold...the type that bites your nose instead of nibbling your ears.