Ryan Seacrest hosted the last Microsoft CES keynote, speaking to CEO Steve Ballmer in Last Vegas. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com

LAS VEGAS — We expected great things from Microsoft. After the company announced that this would be its last keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show — that it would say goodbye to fifteen years of speeches at the annual gadget-fest — we assumed it would go out with a bang.

Instead, we were greeted with a bid for attention from a company struggling to stay relevant in an industry increasingly infatuated with newcomers like Facebook, Google, and Amazon.

Yes, Microsoft gave...

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop at the Nokia press conference in Las Vegas. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com

LAS VEGAS — It’s on.

The new device, the Nokia Lumia 900, is the first Nokia-made phone to run on AT&T’s 4G LTE network, the high-speed wireless mobile network slowly expanding across the States.

The Lumia 900 runs the Windows Phone operating system, and in showing off the device, Nokia president and CEO Stephen Elop re-emphasized Nokia’s d...