AOL announced today that the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) selected Engadget, as the Official Blog Partner of the 2010 International CES to be held January 7-10, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In tandem with the show, Engadget will launch new mobile applications for the BlackBerry and Palm webOS devices that will join the site's just-released iPhone app.

As part of the Official Blog Partnership, Engadget, which was recently voted as the blog of the decade as part of an AdweekMedia poll, will provide ongoing news coverage of the hottest products from more than 2,500 CES exhibitors at the 2010 International CES.

“CEA’s choice of Engadget as the Official Blog Partner of CES further cements the site as the premiere voice in consumer electronics coverage. We will cover this year’s show with the fast-paced, up-to-the-minute reporting that has made Engadget the market leader and final word in the world of technology journalism,” said Joshua Topolsky, Editor-in-chief, Engadget.

“We are pleased to welcome Engadget back as the official blog partner of the 2010 International CES. They cover the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow in a big way and we, as well as our exhibitors, value their coverage,” said Karen Chupka, senior vice president of events and conferences for CEA, the producer of the International CES.

Engadget will provide live coverage of the 2010 International CES on both its domestic and international sites, and will have extensive presence at the show, including interviews, product news and reviews, updates on CES events and commentary by a team of Engadget editors from across the globe. Engadget’s expansion into the international market will provide an opportunity for consumers and advertisers around the world to follow up-to-the minute news from the show. Following the show’s conclusion, the site will launch its annual Engadget Awards in which editors and readers vote on the best of CES in several categories.

Along with the show’s kickoff, Engadget will be launching new Blackberry and Palm Pre (webOS) mobile applications. The two apps will join Engadget’s just-released iPhone application and will include galleries, video, news and more.

News emerging from this year’s show will be spotlighted on Engadget’s international sites which are published in several languages including Spanish, German, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Polish.

With more than 6.4 million worldwide unique visitors each month, including 2.4 million unique visitors in the United States alone, Engadget is one of the world’s leading technology blogs, according to the November 2009 Worldwide and US comScore Media Metrix reports, and is the cornerstone of the AOL Technology Network, which includes Engadget, Engadget Mobile, Engadget HD, Switched, TUAW (The Unofficial Apple Weblog) and DownloadSquad.

Ulitzer Named Exclusive "New-Media" Sponsor of Cloud Expo 2010
SYS-CON Events announced today that Ulitzer.com was named exclusive new-media sponsor of Cloud Expo 2010.

5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo will take place April 19-21, 2010, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City with more than 5,000 delegates and over 100 sponsors and exhibitors participating in the conference.

Cloud Expo is the world's leading Cloud-focused event and is held five times a year, in New York City, Silicon Valley, Prague, Tokyo and Hong Kong.

Over 200 corporate sponsors and 10,000 industry professionals became part of Cloud Expo since its inception, more than all other Cloud-related events put together worldwide.

"Cloud Expo was announced on February 24, 2007, the day the term ‘cloud computing' was coined," said Fuat Kircaali, founder and CEO of SYS-CON Events. "Cloud has become synonymous with ‘computing' and ‘software' in two short years, and this event has become the new PC Expo, Comdex, and InternetWorld of our decade. By 2012, more than 50,000 delegates per year will participate in the Cloud Expo."

A Rock Star Faculty, Top Keynotes, Sessions, and Top Delegates!
Cloud Expo New York will feature 200+ technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading Cloud industry players in the world.

All main layers of the Cloud ecosystem will be represented in the 5th International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo - the infrastructure players, the platform providers, and those offering applications. And they'll all be here to speak, sponsor, exhibit and network this April in New York!

The high-energy event is a must-attend for senior technologists including CIOs, CTOs, directors of infrastructure, VPs of technology, IT directors and managers, network and storage managers, network engineers, enterprise architects, and communications and networking specialists.

Delegates will leave Cloud Expo with a dramatically increased understanding of the complete scope of the entire cloud computing spectrum from storage to security.