Microsoft's Ballmer in, Apple's Jobs out at CES 2010
MS-Watch | at | by Mike
Microsoft will attend the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010, but will its mega-booth face off against an Apple exhibition? When asked if Apple will attend CES, a spokesperson with the Consumer Electronics Association, which hosts the high-profile event, told eWEEK, "They are not currently exhibiting."
For a while, though, the answer to that question seemed to depend on whom you asked.
As reported by The Wall Street Journal's Ben Charny on July 29, Apple indeed planned on being present at CES in 2010. However, despite being asked to keynote, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had apparently not returned any calls left for him by Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association.