Follow us Get news via Twitter Become a fan Join us on Facebook Subscribe Net News via RSS CES 2021 -- Virtual-Style -- Gets Underway With Trends Talk, Verizon Keynote, And Lots Of Press Conferences January 11, 2021 at 4:36 PM (PT) Virtual By PERRY MICHAEL SIMON in LOS ANGELES: The CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW (CES) gets underway TODAY (1/11), but instead of its usual LAS VEGAS event, the show is being conducted in virtual form with a schedule of sessions running through THURSDAY (1/14). MONDAY's main event was the keynote by VERIZON Chairman/CEO HANS VESTBERG, which amounted to an advertisement for the company's 5G services with visits by NFL Commissioner ROGER GOODELL and former football and baseball star DEION SANDERS as well as BLACK PUMAS, and the announcement that 5G Ultra Wideband is being implemented in 15 LIVE NATION concert venues including the WILTERN THEATRE in LOS ANGELES and IRVING PLAZA in NEW YORK and at 28 NFL stadiums by the end of the year, but the day's schedule was mostly made up of a series of press conferences unveiling manufacturers' 2021 lines. And, as always, the CONSUMER TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION used Media Day to offer its annual trends session while its sales data release is once again being done without benefit of a formal presentation.