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Consumers Plan To Ignore CES, MacWorld And Gadgets In 2009 (AAPL)
Silicon Alley Insider — Forget Steve Jobs's health. The biggest problem for Apple (AAPL) heading into this year's MacWorld is one shared with all the booth-operators at the Consumer's Electronic Show: Most US consumers plan to cut back on their high-tech pruchases this year. 51% of respondents plan to spend less this year on gadgets and just 5% plan to spend more. That's the principle finding from a Forrester Research online survey of some 5,000 American adults, reports the WSJ. One caveat to keep in mind: What consumers say they plan to do, and what they actually do can ...

News Bits: What's REALLY Going On With Steve Jobs
Contentinople: — ... in Las Vegas, The New York Times reports. Skeptics say the format is threatened by the increasing presence of downloadable high-def movies, but supporters point out that 600,000 Blu-ray copies of Dark Knight were sold in one day. The Consumer Electronics Association predicts that consumers will spend $1.3 billion on Blu-ray players in 2009, compared with $1.2 billion on DVD players (though Blu-ray players are two to three times more expensive). More than half of all consumers plan to cut back on high-tech purchases this year, according to a Forrester Research study ...