Motorola CEO Ed Zander had to cancel his keynote that was scheduled for Thursday afternoon due to a death in the family.

We truly regret that Zander couldn't make it. He after all is credited with turning Motorola around and making it an exiting company once again. That's a far better job than he did at Sun Microsystems, where he was Chief Operating Officer. There is was mostly know as the best dressed man in the company.

We wouldn’t be surprised if the snow boarding ramp (see the previous post) was his idea. We were looking forward to seeing him make a few runs actually.