Welcome to the Consumer Electronics (CES) Blog from VNU business publications.

This year we will have roving reporters filing stories and blogging on what's hot and what's not live from the exhibition floors and hotels of fabulous Las Vegas.

As well as VNUnet's Silicon Valley Sleuth, reporters from PCW and Computeractive will also be covering the show and blogging to this central area.

Before the show starts we will be looking to provide tips and tricks for all of you thinking about going including things like where to download conference guides

and other useful bits of information that hopefully will help make your trip as productive as possible.

And for all of us who have to go back to work in the rain and cold of winter, we will be providing some hot exclusives straight from the show that is bound to heat things up.

Keep checking back to get the inside track on one of the the worlds biggest IT shows.