Thomas Cullen, vice president of market development, discussed over breakfast the company’s cost-control efforts, which don’t include blowing money on a CES booth. managed to save a little dough by spending the week conducting private business rather than touting new products at the show. Santa Barbara music hardware maker Sonos Inc. ‘A lot of their stuff is U.S.-focused right now,’ said TelCentris Chief Technology Officer Kevin Hertz. But VoxOx hopes to quickly pull past Google Voice in other countries. VoxOx is already capable of way more than what Google Voice offers - the company considers Google’s beta product among its closest competitors. There were a few other interesting products scattered around Las Vegas. Had we not found our way to the Renaissance Hotel one morning, we wouldn’t have gotten a glimpse of the unexpected video tricks that ActiveVideo is pulling off on cable boxes. Smaller companies - outfits looking to save money and ones whispering about products not quite ready for prime time - held meetings with potential business associates and the occasional journalist who was willing to taxi to a hotel off the strip.

TelCentris executives Erik Bratt, from left, Bob Hertz and Kevin Hertz show off the VoxOx software. With three halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center filled with an endless supply of e-readers, 3-D televisions and various accessories being pitched by carbon copies of the ShamWow guy, you’d think just about every worthwhile piece of technology had a booth somewhere at the Consumer Electronics Show last week. This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links.

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