DETROIT INVADES Las Vegas; The Motor City is out in force at CES.(News)

Byline: MARK VAUGHN

Bill Gates may be the patron saint, but Detroit's auto industry played its largest supporting role ever at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Gates gave his annual keynote address, not unlike the pope addressing the faithful at St. Peter's Square, except that the pope doesn't try to get people to buy more electronics.

"Applications will run not only on the PC, they'll run up in the Internet, or in the cloud, as we say, on the phone, in the car, in the TV,'' said the Microsoft chairman. "The first digital decade was largely ...

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