The CES rush has begun. I woke up at 4:45AM in New York City to fly ten hours to arrive in New York, NY in Las Vegas. My Treo 650 died last night, but I was able to bring it back to life with a long overdue firmware update. I doubt that the new Treo 700W announced today will be more reliable, but we will test it out soon and find out.

I caught the NY Times show preview. Previews are tricky to write, but even so the "convergence" theme seems a little broad. (Or is convergence so old that it is new again?) Much more interesting is the Starz announcement that the company will distribute videos that can be used on portable players. To a man that has spent the better part of the day the prisoner....er, guest of America West the idea of enhanced portable entertainment is particularly apppealing.

More updates to come. In the meantime PC Magazine is consolidating its CES coverage here.