Sheldon Adelson was best known as the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., operator of The Venetian and Palazzo on the Strip. But it was the convention industry — specifically, the Comdex ...

The passing of the event is a moment worth noting. For years, Comdex was the place to be in November--de rigueur for anyone hoping to make a splash in IT. It was where Microsoft co-founder and ...

United Business Media, which bought the Comdex brand in 2006, says it will relaunch the once mighty Las Vegas trade show as a virtual event in November. Virtual Comdex, which will take place Nov.

The first time my editors sent me to the Comdex computer trade show in Las Vegas, I was young, wide-eyed and owned a reasonable head of hair. Well, at least I had more on my head than the accompanying ...

The passing of the event is a moment worth noting. For years, Comdex was the place to be in November -- de rigeur for anyone hoping to make a splash in IT. It was where Microsoft co-founder and ...

LAS VEGAS--While attendance was below even lowered expectations and the show floor a fraction of the size of years past, show organizers called "Year One of the New Comdex" a success and vowed to ...

While event organizers have called it a postponement and vowed to bring it back stronger and better in 2005, the cancellation of the Comdex IT trade show in Las Vegas this November marks the official ...

There won’t be a Comdex in Las Vegas this fall. That doesn’t even sound surprising, does it? But it would have been unthinkable in 1995, when Comdex founder Sheldon Adelson cashed out for $864 million ...

Although organizers announced Wednesday that Comdex 2004 has been canceled, for tech executives like P.G. Bartlett the show died long ago. Bartlett, vice president of marketing for specialty software ...

For the second year in a row, there will be no Comdex IT trade show in Las Vegas this November, largely a result of a continuing lack of interest and financial commitments from major vendors. San ...