CEBIT Round-up

CEBIT is the world's largest tech extravaganza. Even in these bleak economic times, thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of buyers have been wandering the Halle of Hannover trying to pick up a bit of margin.

Rubbing shoulders with them all have been INQ hacks Charlie Demerjian and Sylvie Barak. Here are their reports:

Dell gets all purtied up
New looks, mostly good too

UltraCapacitors and flash back RAID cards
New tech from Adaptec

Asus apologises to the INQ
Shows us its Lamborghini

Modders take over Cooler Master booth
Case study

Durability comes to GPUs
 UltraDurable in fact

HiSaver slays vampire power
Powering ahead to lower power

Better NASes are Promised
Big and small

RAIDed SD cards and PSP goodies
Photofast has the toys we want

Exhibition deemed a hit, despite recession
Weeding out the riff-raff

Thieves steal the show at CeBit
You've got to pick a PC or two

Enermax makes the world brighter
15 LED fans tip up

Amazon CTO talks cloud computing
Blue skies ahead

IBM steps into home media servers
Dual Nehalem blades as well

LinkedIn CEO claims not-working is crucial
Faffing about updating your profile is good business practice

Clevo makes a decent-looking bookend
Best looking netbook so far

OCZ shows 1TB SSD RAID module
Melt your PCIe bus

Supermicro shows eight Nehalems in 2U
The goodies continue

Zotac makes a remote controller
HD movies and gaming over IP

IBM talks smart software and open source
Linux business "worthwhile"

Robot transforms sewer into information superhighway
Fat pipe

Luxa2 makes Apple accessories
Thermaltake spawns a high end brand

Acer unveils 10-inch Aspire One
Acer thinks long and hard about new laptop

EU President calls for intellectual property rights rethink
When it comes to the crunch...

Refuse to fail, Schwarzenegger tells CeBit
Muscling in on Merkel

Charlie loses his heart to a Thermaltake case
Level 10 - best in show by a long shot