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Article: Cebit - Highs and lows of Cebit. At the world's top IT show, high-definition video proved it is shaping the industry, as low-bandwidth data broadcast made a debut. Clive Akass was there.
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- Personal Computer World
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Cebit is not only the world's biggest computer show, it is arguably the best, and certainly the most, comprehensive. Nowhere else can you view in one place every conceivable aspect of IT - from banking back-end systems to a low-cost Taiwanese mp3 player. The global trend is for smaller, more specialised shows, but this makes the Cebit overview all the more valuable.
However, even Cebit is shrinking. Several big names, such as HP, were missing this year. Other companies had a reduced presence and there were fewer big product launches. Attendance was down 9,000 to 480,000 (compared with a peak 850,000 in 2001), although this is still a huge figure and the organiser ...