Major vendors from around the world will show off high-definition television sets, novel entertainment set-top boxes for living rooms, robots, electronic toys and an array of new Internet services.
Major vendors are pushing the boundaries of all three major mobile operating systems and hardware configurations to transform the tablet into a content creation device," said Smith.
The major vendors are not willing to invest much in sorting the trends out.
Critics are uneasy about the major vendors' political ties, and they worry about what a malevolent insider or a hacker could do to an election.
On the other, following the lead of the PC industry, major vendors have been farming out more and more production and design work to low-cost suppliers.
The major vendors say supercomputing's biggest challenge is developing software to use the available power efficiently in analyzing real-world problems.
The company, for its part, charged Verizon or I.B.M., the two major vendors, more than what it had paid Mr. Lanham.
And as the low-price, high-volume mass merchants like Wal-Mart or Costco become major vendors of big-screen HDTVs, all retailers are forced to keep their prices — and their profit margins — as low as possible.
Starting in April 2013, two major vendors of long-term care insurance — John Hancock and Genworth — raised their rates for women by 15 to 40 percent, said Brian Gordon, president of MAGA, an insurance agency in Riverwoods, Ill.
Its initiative, called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, works with major vendors — like banks, technology companies and cellphone service providers — to adopt higher standards for the way companies verify user identities and store personal data online.
