A childhood relationship with Dre's stepbrother -- rapper Warren G -- played a key role in transforming Snoop's life and cried out for further exploration in what could have been a fascinating keynote, one that rivaled the personal revelations provided by Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl and Smokey Robinson in recent South by Southwest presentations.
On the following day, Clearwire Co-Chairman Ben Wolff will probably use his keynote to promote a rival 4G technology called WiMax and argue that it hasn't lost momentum to LTE.
iWork is actually a suite of productivity apps — Numbers, Keynote and Pages — meant to rival Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
The timing, which comes just ahead of rival Oracle's Open World keynote address, is probably not a coincidence.
The idea of data privacy was a theme of Apple's keynote, and sat well as a direct swipe at Google, a key rival.
PayPal has struck out at new payments rival Apple Pay, the NFC-operated payment system announced during last week's keynote speech in Cupertino, California.
When Oracle chairman Larry Ellison announced his company's new autonomous database product at the Oracle OpenWorld conference keynote, he took several minutes to disparage AWS, one of his chief rivals in the cloud market.
Jobs noted during the keynote that when you consider iOS devices as portable gaming devices, they're outselling the entries by rivals Nintendo and Sony — combined.
Darroch, making the keynote speech at the Mip TV conference and programming market in Cannes today, said that Ofcom's move would allow the rival pay TV operators Virgin Media, BT Vision and Top Up TV to ignore other channels and content providers.
They considered examples of simplicity: the iPod for its minimalist form and intuitive interface; Google for its straightforward, no-fuss approach to searching; the Screwpull wine-bottle opener for its mechanical elegance; Apple Keynote (rival to PowerPoint) for its subtle pop-up indicators that help you align and position elements like a pro.
| Chris Christie to keynote convention.
