ConsumerIT - For Europe's High Volume PC Retailers, Distributors & Builders

RetailVision Europe will bring together Europe's leading retailers, e-tailers and distributors for this year's most important retail-focused buying event...and it's in London for the first time in 15 years.

To be held on 10-12 May 2010 at the Sofitel London Heathrow, Show Director Nick Cabrera (show in photo) says more than 180 have registered to attend.

GfK's Dr. Rudolf Aunkofer will present What's Selling & What's Not referencing GFK's recent report on The IT Market 2010. And our own Editor-in-Chief, Bob Snyder is giving the Annual RetailVision Industry Review, covering the hottest trends and vendors.

Combining a showcase-led exhibition with industry insight sessions, private boardroom appointments and pre-arranged one-to-one meetings, RetailVision 2010 will introduce a new on-stage product showcase, The Retail Factor.

This year, for the first time, you can NOMINATE your favorite products for the well-known RetailVision Awards before the event starts. Look to the link below.

Go RetailVision Europe (to attend or exhibit)

Go To Nominate for the RetailVision Europe Awards

First OCZ Technology Group unveiled the OCZ Onyx 32GB SATA II 2.5-inch solid-state drive series, "an ultra-affordable" for under $100.

Now Intel ships the 40GB X25-V Value SATA SSD at USD$125.

When it comes to price per gigabyte, HDDs are still far cheaper than SSDs cost from $2.50 to $3 per gigabyte, while hard disk drives cost around 10 cents per gigabyte. There probably will be an uptake of the 40GB SSD, but it's not going to replace a HDD in a notebook at this point.

SSDs are far superior to hard disk drives when it comes to performance, power use and ruggedness. And $100 USD is the right price point to help convert more users to SSD computing.

Go INTEL X25-V Value SATA SSD

NY Times reports Google and Intel will team up with Sony to develop Google TV to bring the web into the living room through next gen TVs and set-top boxes.

Think social networks and other apps for smartphones that could be brought to television through the use of Android.

Based on Android, Google has allegedly built a prototype STB that runs on Intel’s Atom, but the technology may be incorporated directly into TVs or other devices.

The three companies have already named Logitech to make peripheral devices, including a remote with a tiny keyboard.

Go Here's How Google TV Will Work

Wall Street market analyst Piper Jaffray wrote a report saying the next market for Apple should be the $31 billion TV market.

As TVs become fully IP connected in the next 2-4 years, they think Apple is well-positioned. With its 100,000+ applications, powerful user interfaces, and design skills, could Apple do for TV what it did for MP3 players and cellphones?

The larger perspective is that all makers are migrating across all devices and the TV is the Mt. Everest of devices, the big peak to climb that you leave for last.

First it was the battle for the PC screen...now it's the battle for the mobile phone screen... and pretty soon it will be the battle for One Screen to Rule Them All

Go Apple Says TV is a Hobby, Not a Business