"Comdex producer MediaLive International announced Wednesday that the 2004 version of the long-running trade show has been canceled. MediaLive expects to resurrect the show in 2005, but tech executives said the company will face a tough time battling declining attendance numbers and the growing prominence of a rival Las Vegas conference, the Consumer Electronics Show, better known as CES," reports CNet.

Comment: I don't think this bit of news will surprise anyone. In my last Comdex report, last year, A fight for survival, I wrote: "The question is, will there be a show next year?"

"Absolutely: we've already booked," Comdex's executive director, Dave Rosenberg, told me this week. "We had a terrific response from the vendors at the show, so I can pretty much guarantee it's going to be larger, with more vendors, next year.

So much for that....