• Fun and games at CES on Thursday, as the show's doors officially opened and everyone could get their hands on the gear. Intel showed off its new 32 nanometer chips, Dell paraded its ultra-thin laptop and Plastic Logic - which has long claimed that it would challenge Amazon and other electronic reader manufacturers - unveiled the Que (listen out for today's podcast for more).
• After playing with the Nexus One for a few days, I thought it was only fair to share my thoughts on what the phone is like. Good, but not great. What could make it better for British users, however, is that the European version looks set to support multitouch. That's the same as the Droid, which is single touch in the US but, under the Milestone name in the EU, supports multitouch. The question of why that happens came up in the Google press conference on Tuesday, but Android boss Andy Rubin sort-of-deflected it at the time by saying it was "a software thing" and that they would "leave the option open".
• Another company that's exhibiting at CES and we've discussed in the past is the social TV startup Boxee - which has finally launched its beta. It's the next step for the New York-based company, which recently said it would be launching hardware to help people play internet video on their TV.
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