Don't book your Vegas tickets to CES just yet. Ryan Block of GDGT and Engadget (and CEA advisor) says he was at the same dinner that Ben Charney of the WSJ was at when he got "the tip" that Apple was going to be at CES. According to Block, at no time during the dinner did Gary Shapiro say that Apple was going to be at CES. In fact the opposite occurred.
Unfortunately, it's also specious and flatly wrong. I was seated directly across from Gary, and present for the entire conversation, wherein a dozen or so other journos chatted with him and one another. When asked about the CEA's ongoing contact with Jobs, Gary joked that every o
