Synaxon’s second annual UK National Conference in Cheshire will be held next week with more than 160 member delegates now registered and 45 supplier partners attending. The group is now expecting more than 350 people to turn up.

Synaxon is Europe’s largest grouping of independent IT resellers and system houses. Synaxon is already well-established in Germany, where it has nearly 3000 partners that generate around €3 billion of gross external sales annually, representing 15% of the German market. Synaxon UK now has a UK reseller membership of 672 independent resellers with combined revenues of around £700 million of gross external sales.

Are you looking for new sources of supply, or buyers for your excess inventory? The International Trade Conference (ITC) 2012 brings together some of Europe's most active brokers, traders and distributors of PC components, smartphones, consumer electronics and game consoles.

The conference, organized by IGT/ICB/IPT, hosts key disties and traders for a huge range of products, from iDevice accessories, to PC components and accessories, mobile phones and consumer electronics (TVs, games consoles, Continue reading...

IFA Berlin is already sold out. More companies have submitted applications for space than space exists, says Dr. Christian Goeke, COO, Messe Berlin (photo top left).

Until the new Hall 15 goes up in 2015, IFA will be a show filled to its limit...and then some as the organizer looks for temporary solutions to accommodate. That’s 140,000 sqm of exhibits plus whatever extra space can be shoe-horned into IFA by using outdoor tents and other temporary buildings.

Part of the pressure comes from the growing number of Asian exhibitors. The more robust appliance business also clamours for space. And in consumer electronics, the growth is in mobile devices and accessories as well as the Apple ecosystem.

That's one of the main messages we took from the IFA Global Press Conference in Dubrovnik this year.

But that's not the only message.

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) announces CES 2012 will not only be the "coolest" tradeshow but also be the greenest, with the adoption of several new sustainability practices.

For the first time this year for this year attendee badge holders will come from recycled vinyl show banners, which the CEA will collect at the end of the show to recycle even further. The CEA is also pushing for signs made from recycled materials (such as reusable cardboard) while collecting magnetic, vinyl and Continue reading...

Just as Frank Sinatra famously sang, Microsoft will soon start saying "I did it my way" after deciding to make a final big and expensive appearance at CES 2012, corporate VP Frank X. Shaw announces.

The Microsoft keynote at the January show (something of an annual tradition) will be the 14th and last, too. The company has been showing up at CES for the last 20 years.

The reason? Microsoft prefers to make announcements following its own timeline. Refusal to pay for CES space might be an issue, Continue reading...

Is enterprise ready to embrace mobile? IT professional and company association CompTIA recently asked this question at the annual EMEA Member Conference, with a session discussing the growing (in both size and importance) role of mobile devices in enterprise.

After all, 90% of the 1 billion internet-enabled devices sold in Europe are mobile devices.

Starting off the session was GfK group director and market researcher Carl West, who says the traditional PC business has reached saturation point-- Continue reading...

No, we didn't misplace a "0." We tend to be self-centered and just don't look outside the usual suspects.

So where is this giant of a show? Tokyo? Beijing? Shanghai?

None of these above, the records were broken once again at Sitex  2010, as more than 900,000 people visited the four-day show at the Singapore Expo and splurged some $52 million on gadgets and gizmos. Among the more popular items were tablet computers, Global Positioning System (GPS) navigation systems and digital cameras.

Now SITEX Continue reading...

This year's edition of CEA's Tech Trends to Watch names technology and privacy, the future of video distribution & consumption, mobile broadband/4G, green technology and the future of apps.

CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro says the report offers crucial insight into a rapidly changing industry. The highlighted trends are the ones impacting the marketplace, he continues.

The report includes a special section dedicated to the question "Are we changing technology to suit our needs, or is technology Continue reading...