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		<title>Video: Mossberg and Patches Opine About AppleFest 2009 at the ATD Annual BBQ</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a lovely video BoomTown did last night at our All Things Digital annual BBQ, at which the crackerjack team at our little rogue operation inside Dow Jones goes analog, gnaws on some ribs and trades tech tales.

Last night, of course, much of the chatter was about what went down at the Apple event in San Francisco yesterday, at which CEO and Supreme Leader Steve Jobs made a grand reappearance onstage after a liver transplant.

Walt Mossberg and Digital Daily's John Paczkowski were there and give their spicy reports.]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s a lovely video BoomTown did last night at our <strong>All Things Digital</strong> annual BBQ, at which the crackerjack team at our little rogue operation inside Dow Jones goes analog.</p>
<p>As a completely virtual company, it&#8217;s nice to get together to gnaw on some ribs and trade tech tales.</p>
<p>Last night, of course, much of the chatter was about what went down at the <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090909/live-from-apples-lets-rock-event-10-am-pdt/">Apple event in San Francisco yesterday</a>, at which CEO and Supreme Leader Steve Jobs made a grand reappearance onstage after a liver transplant.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m vertical, back at Apple and loving every day of it,&#8221; declared Jobs, before introducing a variety of new features and software innovations to the company&#8217;s already strong repertoire, most specifically for <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090909/live-from-apples-lets-rock-event-itunes-9/">iTunes</a> and <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090909/live-from-apples-lets-rock-event-ipods/">iPods</a>.</p>
<p>(I guess some still stubbornly self-righteous bloggers were a little premature with their <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090106/to-err-is-human-to-live-divine-how-exactly-no-one-got-it-right-about-steve-jobs-health/">hysterical death&#8217;s-door assertions about the Silicon Valley icon and business-challenged certainty that Apple would wither too</a>.)</p>
<p>Overall, from reading the coverage about the Apple (AAPL) gathering, the Jobs performance sounded kind of dramatic, even if there was no launch of a new device, such as the coming-up-next mystery iTablet.</p>
<p>Both Walt Mossberg and Digital Daily&#8217;s John &#8220;Patches&#8221; Paczkowski were at the event, along with Mossberg Solution&#8217;s Katherine Boehret and our Webmaster, master photog and Newton fanboy, Adam Tow (see <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090909/apple-music-event-photos/">his amazing images of the confab</a> here).</p>
<p>(Walt actually punked me at the BBQ by pretending he actually had a demo of the alleged Apple tablet in his bag&#8211;at which I almost lunged like a lunatic&#8211;when he had no such thing. Ha. Ha.)</p>
<p>In any case, here&#8217;s their frank ruminations on what went down&#8211;not too much new, really, but still interesting, as always, from Apple.</p>
<p>And, separately, after the Apple event was over, Patches went to a meeting with Palm (PALM) to take a gander at the <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090909/teeny-tiny-pixi-phone-from-palm-tries-killing-giant-hype-for-apple-event-today/">new Pixi smart phone</a> and gives his first thoughts on that too.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video interview:</p>
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		<title>Walt Mossberg? We've Got an App for That!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 03:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That would be Walt Mossberg and his well-known Personal Technology and Mossberg Mailbox columns--as well as BoomTown, John Paczkowski's Digital Daily, Peter Kafka's MediaMemo, Katherine Boehret's Mossberg Solution and video and pictures from our famous D: All Things Digital conferences.

Today, All Things Digital is introducing its very own app for Apple's iPhone and the iPod touch, offering all the posts and columns you get on this Web site--including news, product reviews, analysis and video--from our crack team.

Just smaller and cuter.

So download us and take us along everywhere you go--ATD really enjoys long walks on the beach.]]></description>
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<p>That would be <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com">Walt Mossberg</a> and his well-known Personal Technology and Mossberg Mailbox columns&#8211;as well as BoomTown, John Paczkowski&#8217;s <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com">Digital Daily</a>, Peter Kafka&#8217;s <a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com">MediaMemo</a>, Katherine Boehret&#8217;s <a href="http://solution.allthingsd.com">Mossberg Solution</a> and video and photographs from our famous <a href="http://allthingsd.com/d"><strong>D: All Things Digital</strong></a> conferences.</p>
<p>Today, <strong>All Things Digital</strong> is introducing its very own app for Apple&#8217;s iPhone and the iPod touch, offering all the posts and columns you get on this Web site&#8211;including news, product reviews, analysis and video&#8211;from our crack team.</p>
<p>Just smaller and cuter.</p>
<p>All free. All mobile. And completely designed to let you access <strong>ATD</strong> content 24/7/365, which is how we like it.</p>
<p>In addition, the app will allow users to post links directly to both Facebook and Twitter, because we also like you to overshare our content.</p>
<p>Developed by the amazing team at <a href="http://www.newsgator.com">NewsGator</a>&#8211;with additional heavy lifting by <strong>ATD</strong> staffers <a href="http://allthingsd.com/about/christine-mohan">Christine Mohan</a>, <a href="http://allthingsd.com/about/adam-tow">Adam Tow</a> and Mossberg&#8211;for some months, the app was first available in&#8230;Latvia and London. Also France and Australia.</p>
<p>Frankly, we don&#8217;t grok the method Apple (AAPL) uses to globally spawn apps, but it has now reached the U.S. at the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=316429710&#038;mt=8&#038;s=143441">iTunes store</a>. You can also get info about the app <a href="http://www.allthingsd.com/mobile/iPhone">here on our site</a>.</p>
<p>So download us and take us along everywhere you go&#8211;<strong>ATD</strong> really enjoys long walks on the beach.</p>
<p>Here is the full press release about our newest digital delivery at <strong>ATD</strong>:</p>
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<blockquote class="memo"><p>ALL THINGS DIGITAL LAUNCHES MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION ON APPLE APP STORE</p>
<p>App for iPhone and iPod touch offers tech and media news, product reviews, analysis and video from Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher, John Paczkowski, Peter Kafka and Katherine Boehret</p>
<p>SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (May 18, 2009)&#8211;All Things Digital today announced the launch of a new iPhone™ and iPod touch® application on the Apple App store.</p>
<p>Co-edited by Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg and BoomTown blogger Kara Swisher, the AllThingsD.com site launched in 2007 as the online extension of the annual “D: All Things Digital” conference, started by Walt and Kara in 2003 and attended by the digital elite.</p>
<p>The app makes exclusive content from AllThingsD.com and the D conference available for iPhone and iPod touch with a range of features and tools including: </p>
<p>•	Kara’s BoomTown, John Paczkowski’s Digital Daily and Peter Kafka’s MediaMemo blogs and video</p>
<p>•	Walt’s Personal Technology and Mossberg&#8217;s Mailbox columns, his videos and his Mossblog</p>
<p>•	Katherine Boehret’s Mossberg Solution column and videos </p>
<p>•	Ability to post article links and text descriptions directly to Twitter and Facebook, or to email them to a friend</p>
<p>•	Galleries of D conference videos and photos including the full 2007 historic joint appearance by Steve Jobs and Bill Gates</p>
<p>•	Live D7 conference coverage throughout the May 26-28, 2009 event.</p>
<p>“At AllThingsD.com we strive to deliver news, reviews and commentary that are both accurate and entertaining. Our app offers the same quality experience, enhanced by engaging photos and daily video,” said Mossberg. “All Things Digital for the iPhone is a smart, streamlined mobile application that we know iPhone and iPod touch owners interested in technology and media will enjoy.”</p>
<p>Developed using the NewsGator iPhone Media Application Framework, the All Things Digital app is designed to contain all the news and reviews from the Web site. As on AllThingsD.com, each journalist’s section is identified by specific color schemes and headshots, including stylized icons that emphasize each writer’s personality and beat. Customized navigation enables users to choose their favorite sections and personalize the content. </p>
<p>Availability</p>
<p>The All Things Digital app is available for free from Apple’s App Store on iPhone and iPod touch or at www.itunes.com/appstore/. For more information, go to www.allthingsd.com/mobile/iPhone. </p>
<p>###</p>
<p>About All Things Digital</p>
<p>All Things Digital (www.allthingsd.com) is devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. Co-edited by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, the site is the online extension of the annual “D: All Things Digital” conference started by Walt and Kara in 2003 and attended by the digital elite. The site is a mix of columns, blogs and video including Walt’s Personal Technology, Kara’s BoomTown, John Paczkowski’s Digital Daily, Peter Kafka’s MediaMemo and Katherine Boehret’s Mossberg Solution. AllThingsD.com is part of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network which includes WSJ.com, MarketWatch.com and Barrons.com.</p>
<p>Apple, iPhone and iPod are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Now THIS Is Insufferably Smug!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, some British blogger dude called our site "insufferably smug."

We were wounded, of course, but he also always links to us, so we love him.

In other words, if we get the traffic, you can call All Things Digital anything you want--just don’t call us late for dinner.  

Thus, in the spirit of April Fool's Day, we thought we should let this blooming blighter get a photographic version of what insufferably smug truly looks like, Sherlock Holmes-style.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last year, some British dude, a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/askjack">Guardian tech blogger and computer editor named Jack Schofield</a>, called our site &#8220;insufferably smug.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/jack_schofield_140x140.jpg"><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/jack_schofield_140x140.jpg" alt="jack_schofield_140x140" title="jack_schofield_140x140" width="140" height="140" class="alignright size-full wp-image-11599" /></a></p>
<p>This despite the fact that he is chomping on this weirdly long pipe on <em>his</em> glam headshot (pictured here) and that we are the first blog listed on his &#8220;Sites We Like&#8221; list and that he always links to us, even as he calls us twits (but not in the unnaturally obsessive media-admiration-of-Twitter way).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/nov/19/dan-lyons-fakesteve">He wrote last fall</a>: &#8220;Sure, All Things D isn&#8217;t very good and it&#8217;s insufferably smug, but if you trash publications on those grounds you&#8217;ll soon be reduced to reading cereal boxes.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Jump back, Jack!</em> You can call us names and say we stink, but insulting cereal boxes is beyond the pale.</p>
<p>But, hey, Schofield also links, so we love him. </p>
<p>In other words, if we get the traffic, you can call <strong>All Things Digital</strong> anything you want&#8211;just don’t call us late for dinner.  </p>
<p>Thus, in the spirit of April Fool&#8217;s Day, we thought we should let this blooming blighter get a photographic version of what insufferably smug truly looks like, unveiling a new &#8220;About Us&#8221; look, Sherlock Holmes-style.</p>
<p>Click on the image to make it larger:</p>
<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/insufferably_smug1.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/insufferably_smug1.jpg" alt="insufferably_smug_paczkowski" title="insufferably_smug_paczkowski" width="350" height="197" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11623" /></a></p>
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		<title>BoomTown's Annual Waltgelina Walk at CES: Walt and Katie on the (Less Crowded) Floor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As BoomTown did last year, I took to the much-less-crowded floor of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with tech review kingpin Walt Mossberg and Mossberg Solution columnist Katherine Boehret to get their take on the scene.

Of interest to Walt was the Palm Pre launch and the Yahoo Connected TV initiative. For Katie, it was a $2,000 cellphone.

Here's the video of their ruminations.]]></description>
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<p>As <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080109/kara-visits-ces-waltgelina-part-1/">BoomTown did last year</a>, I took to the much-less-crowded floor of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with tech review kingpin <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com">Walt Mossberg</a> and Mossberg Solution columnist <a href="http://solution.allthingsd.com">Katherine Boehret</a> to get their take on the scene.</p>
<p>Big news for Walt was the <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090112/kara-talks-to-roger-mcnamee-about-the-palm-pre/">Palm Pre launch</a> and the <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090109/jerry-yang-and-sue-decker-talk-about-yahoos-connected-tv-at-ces/">Yahoo Connected TV</a> initiative. For Katie, it was a $2,000 cellphone.</p>
<p>As I also said last year, I jokingly call Walt the &#8220;Brangelina&#8221; of CES, since he is stopped constantly on the floor by fans who want to meet him in person and those who just want to kibitz with him about the latest and greatest trends in the tech sector.</p>
<p>So, here are this year&#8217;s video ruminations: </p>
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		<title>TiVo Las Vegas: Walt, Katie, Peter and BoomTown Head to CES</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Macworld out of the way, a chunk of the crack All Things Digital squad is now winging its way both east and west to the annual gadgetopocalypse in Las Vegas, a.k.a. the Consumer Electronics Show. 

Despite the fact that the show is feeling the pinch of the economy and that there are really no big products to speak of, CES is still one of the biggest and most important gatherings of the tech year.

Las Vegas turns into a geek moshpit every year, as legions of vendors, buyers, press and others converge to be overwhelmed for days by noise, long lines for cabs, keynotes, demos and more (like the Pussycat Dolls).]]></description>
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<p>With Macworld out of the way (basic verdict: Phil Schiller did not bomb), a chunk of the crack <strong>All Things Digital</strong> squad is now winging its way both east and west to the annual gadgetopocalypse in Las Vegas, a.k.a. the Consumer Electronics Show. </p>
<p>Despite the fact that the show is feeling the pinch of the economy&#8211;I was able to get a better room at a cheaper price last night, which was unheard of in the past&#8211;and that there are really no big products to speak of, except perhaps the new Palm (PALM) smartphone, CES is still one of the biggest and most important gatherings of the tech year.</p>
<p>Las Vegas turns into a geek moshpit every year&#8211;with the spicier pornies thrown in, with that industry&#8217;s convention also taking place at the same time&#8211;as legions of vendors, buyers, press and others converge to be overwhelmed for days by noise, long lines for cabs, keynotes, demos and more.</p>
<p>That also means the <strong>ATD</strong> team, including: <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com">Walt Mossberg</a>, who gets the kind of attention from techies at CES normally reserved for Brangelina; <a href="http://solution.allthingsd.com">Mossberg Solution columnist Katherine Boehret</a>, who trolls the convention center floor looking for cool new products; <a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com">MediaMemo&#8217;s Peter Kafka</a>, who has scheduled himself to the gills; and me, who has not. </p>
<p>Still, there will be parties thrown by Facebook, CBS (CBS) and more to attend, a cornucopia of gadgetry to try and panels to moderate (I am manning one supersession called, I kid you not: <a href="http://www.cesweb.org/sessions/search/sessionDetail.asp?ID_session=SS1&#038;ID_track=SS_CES09">&#8220;What Will They Think of Next? Consumer Technology in 2025&#8243;</a>).</p>
<p>Also, I&#8217;ll be honest, gambling at the Pussycat Dolls Lounge with a passel of nerds.</p>
<p>Between the hands of poker, look for our ongoing coverage over the next few days, including interviews, videos and news (we hope!).</p>
<p>It will all begin tonight with coverage of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer&#8217;s preshow opening keynote, taking over from longtime first-nighter Bill Gates.</p>
<p>Until then, here is the fabulous Ann-Margret doing a mean bugaloo in &#8220;Viva Las Vegas&#8221; (the Pussycat Dolls have nothing on her) with super-handsome-phase Elvis Presley singing like a dream:</p>
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		<title>A New Flip Joins the BoomTown Video Family: High-Def Hijinks Ensue!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you might know from Katherine Boehret's review of Pure Digital Technologies' newest Flip today, there is now a high-definition version of the popular digital video camera.

BoomTown has been using some version of the Flip for our videos since the site started almost two years ago to make our jiggly masterpieces about the tech scene.

Thus, here's a video where my old Flips meet the new one in town.]]></description>
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<p>As you might know from <a href="http://solution.allthingsd.com/20081111/flip-camcorder-goes-high-def/">Katherine Boehret&#8217;s review of Pure Digital Technologies&#8217; newest Flip</a> today, there is now a high-definition version of the popular digital video camera.</p>
<p>Boehret mostly liked the new $230 Flip MinoHD, noting: </p>
<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re in the market for a simple camcorder that records high-quality video, the Flip MinoHD is definitely worth $50 more than the regular Flip Mino. But don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you so when you&#8217;re bummed out by the screen&#8217;s still-small size and its inability to share true HD footage via the FlipShare software.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Walt Mossberg and I demoed San Francisco-based Pure Digital&#8217;s first effort at our third <a href="http://allthingsd.com/d"><strong>D: All Things Digital</strong></a> in 2005. </p>
<p>And BoomTown has been using some version of the Flip for the column&#8217;s videos since the site started almost two years ago to make our jiggly masterpieces about the tech scene.</p>
<p>Thus, here is a video where my old Flips meet the newest digital video recorder in town:</p>
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		<title>Peter Kafka Takes On the Mediamorphosis in New ATD MediaMemo Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, BoomTown could not resist making the obvious literary pun on the debut of Peter Kafka's new daily blog, MediaMemo, on AllThingsD.com.

I am referencing, of course, Franz Kafka's famous 1915 novella, "Metamorphosis," about a man who turns into a bug--except that the transformation is fraught with so much more meaning.

And thus it will be in Peter's column, as the most excellent writer and reporter plunges into the topic--as he writes in his first explanatory post--of "the ongoing battle between the established media business and the technology that is reshaping it day by day."]]></description>
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<p>BoomTown just could not resist making the obvious literary pun on the debut of Peter Kafka&#8217;s new daily blog, <a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/">MediaMemo</a>, on <strong>AllThingsD.com</strong>.</p>
<p>(He is pictured here.)</p>
<p>For those who were not dragooned into reading existentialist writers in college, I am referencing &#8220;Metamorphosis,&#8221; about a man who turns into a bug&#8211;except that the process is fraught with so much more meaning.</p>
<p>And thus it will be in Peter&#8217;s column, as the most excellent writer and reporter plunges into the topic&#8211;<a href="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20081027/my-favorite-subject-you/">as he writes in his first explanatory post</a>&#8211;of &#8220;the ongoing battle between the established media business and the technology that is reshaping it day by day.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is transformative, to say the least, from someone who will lead you through it with the kinds of standards, accuracy, great writing and insight that I hope you have come to expect from this site.</p>
<p>While <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080918/atd-hires-peter-kafka-to-pen-a-new-media-and-advertising-blog-from-new-york/">Peter&#8217;s impending arrival to <strong>ATD</strong> was announced in mid-September</a>, he actually debuts today and will be posting many times daily.</p>
<p>As I have previously written, <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com">Walt Mossberg</a> and I have long wanted to bring in someone located on the East Coast and away from the echo chamber that Silicon Valley can be, because we both feel the ongoing digital revolution is taking place over a number of key industries all over this country and the world.</p>
<p>With extensive connections across the media, advertising, entertainment and tech sectors, Peter will be doing original reporting, getting scoops, doing interviews, making videos and providing much needed and clear-headed analysis that he is so well-known for.</p>
<p>Peter has been working at <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com">Silicon Alley Insider</a>, most recently as its managing editor, since mid-2007. The first hire at the start-up tech business analysis site, he has focused on enterprise and beat reporting, as well as breaking news. </p>
<p>Previously, he spent 10 years as a reporter and editor at Forbes and Forbes.com covering media and technology. (You can read more of <a href="http://allthingsd.com/about/peter-kafka/">his bio here, along with his ethics statement</a>.)</p>
<p>Walt and I are thrilled that Peter is coming onboard to join the rest of the strong <strong>ATD</strong> team, which includes: John Paczkowski, author of the rocking <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com">Digital Daily</a> column, who formerly wrote the award-winning blog, &#8220;Good Morning Silicon Valley&#8221; at the San Jose Mercury News; and Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Boehret, who writes the most excellent weekly <a href="http://solution.allthingsd.com/">Mossberg Solution</a> column.</p>
<p>And we hope you will soon find&#8211;via following Peter regularly&#8211;why we are so very excited to welcome MediaMemo to the site.</p>
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		<title>Live From New York: ATD Hires Peter Kafka to Pen a New Media and Advertising Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although we did not raid the offices of Silicon Alley Insider and "steal" Peter Kafka, as the fanciful SAI kingpin Henry Blodget alleges--had it been a raid, BoomTown would have properly hog-tied Blodget so he could not make such spurious allegations!--it is true that SAI's current managing editor (pictured here) will be coming to work for us at AllThingD.com soon.

He will write a daily still-unnamed new media blog from New York City, starting at the end of October.]]></description>
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<p>Although we did not raid the offices of Silicon Alley Insider and &#8220;steal&#8221; Peter Kafka, as the <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/allthingsd-raids-sai-steals-peter-kafka">fanciful SAI kingpin Henry Blodget alleges</a>&#8211;had it been a raid, BoomTown would have properly hog-tied Blodget so he could not make such spurious allegations!&#8211;it is true that SAI&#8217;s current managing editor (pictured here) will be coming to work for us at <strong>AllThingD.com</strong> soon.</p>
<p>Indeed, Walt Mossberg and I, as well as the rest of the <strong>ATD</strong> team, are thrilled that Peter is coming onboard at the end of October. He will write a daily still-unnamed new media blog from New York City.</p>
<p>Walt and I have long wanted to bring in someone located on the East Coast and away from the echo chamber that Silicon Valley can be, because we both feel the ongoing digital revolution is taking place over a number of key industries all over this country and the world.</p>
<p>Peter was our first choice and has been on my must-read list since I began this blog. He is sharp, witty, confident and has the kind of reporting and writing chops that we think are key to giving readers high-quality, standards-based content they can trust.</p>
<p>With extensive connections across the media, advertising, entertainment and tech sectors, Peter will be doing original reporting, getting scoops, doing interviews, making videos and providing much needed and clear-headed analysis that he is so well known for.</p>
<p>Peter has worked at SAI since mid-2007. The first hire at the start-up tech business analysis site, he has focused on enterprise and beat reporting, as well as breaking news. </p>
<p>Previously, he spent 10 years as a reporter and editor at Forbes and Forbes.com covering media and technology. There he launched two tech columns, coordinated the video staff and represented Forbes on industry panels and in TV appearances for CNN, BBC and CNBC.</p>
<p>Peter was also a staff reporter with City Business in Minneapolis and a staff writer for the Minnesota Real Estate Journal in Bloomington from 1993 to 1997. Earlier, he was a stringer with the Milwaukee Journal and the Milwaukee Sentinel in Madison, Wis.</p>
<p>He holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Wisconsin and resides in Brooklyn, NY. </p>
<p>More importantly, Peter is a newly-minted father, which should give him more practice in prolonged sleep deprivation needed for his blogging.</p>
<p>He will begin at <strong>ATD</strong> on Oct. 27. </p>
<p>Along with Walt and me, Peter joins senior news editor John Paczkowski, author of the rocking <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com">Digital Daily</a> column, who formerly wrote the award-winning blog, &#8220;Good Morning Silicon Valley&#8221; at the San Jose Mercury News, and Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Boehret, who writes the most excellent weekly <a href="http://solution.allthingsd.com/">Mossberg Solution</a> column.</p>
<p>We hope you are as thrilled as we are that Peter is coming soon to the <strong>ATD</strong> site.</p>
<p>(And if you want a little taste of Peter&#8217;s work, here&#8217;s a post he did yesterday on an <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/live-time-warner-ceo-jeff-bewkes-at-goldman-twx-">appearance by Time Warner&#8217;s Jeff Bewkes</a> at the Goldman Sachs media conference and another on <a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/live-rupert-murdoch-at-goldman-nws-">Rupert Murdoch of News Corp.</a> [News Corp. is the owner of Dow Jones and of this Web site].)</p>
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		<title>Welcome to ATD, Therese&#8211;and a Belated Welcome to Eric</title>
		<link>http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080619/welcome-to-atd-therese-and-a-belated-welcome-to-eric/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As readers of AllThingsD.com might have noticed, we added columnist Therese Poletti to the main rail of the site today.

Her twice-weekly column, Tech Tales, which appears on MarketWatch on Tuesdays and Thursdays, will also be published here too. 

Poletti joins Eric Savitz of Barron's, whose posts on his Tech Trader Daily blog about tech stocks have been appearing on the front of ATD several times a day for the past month.]]></description>
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<p>As readers of <a href="http://allthingsd.com"><strong>AllThingsD.com</strong></a> might have noticed, we added <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com">MarketWatch</a> columnist Therese Poletti (pictured here) to the main rail of the site today.</p>
<p>Her twice-weekly column, <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/therese-polettis-tech-tales-yangs/story.aspx?guid=%7B8B8D7641-645E-43B0-B871-1ACA00D02460%7D&#038;dist=hplatest">Tech Tales</a>, which appears on MarketWatch on Tuesdays and Thursdays, will also be published here too. </p>
<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2008/06/unknownthumbnail.jpeg"><img src="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2008/06/unknownthumbnail.jpeg" alt="" title="unknownthumbnail" width="128" height="128" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2179" /></a></p>
<p>Poletti joins Eric Savitz (pictured here) of <a href="http://online.barrons.com/home/main">Barron&#8217;s</a>, whose posts on his <a href="http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/?mod=b_hps_b_tech_trader_daily_blog">Tech Trader Daily</a> blog about tech stocks have been appearing on the front of <strong>ATD</strong> several times a day for the past month.</p>
<p>We added these two very talented voices from other publications within Dow Jones (owner of this site), because we want to bring more cogent and useful news and analysis about tech and media to our readers. Also, they rock.</p>
<p>In all seriousness, the tech blogging arena is one with a lot of players&#8211;some great and some not so much&#8211;so we are especially proud of the high standards, accuracy and quality that each of these writers represents. </p>
<p>We will be adding more writers soon, so watch this space.</p>
<p>Of course, we also don&#8217;t believe in only cross-promoting Dow Jones brands, and publish a half-dozen major links to other sites daily in Voices, along with our tabbed front page feeds that link directly to <a href="http://www.news.com">CNET</a>, <a href="http://www.paidcontent.org">paidContent</a>, <a href="http://www.gigaom.com">GigaOm</a> and <a href="http://www.techmeme.com">Techmeme</a>.</p>
<p>We admire the work those sites are doing and, most of all, want to give our readers as many ways as possible to access the best posts being done across the digital landscape.</p>
<p>Of course, BoomTown and <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com">John Paczkowski&#8217;s Digital Daily</a> remain the anchor of the main rail, while the work of <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com">Walt Mossberg</a> and Katherine Boehret gets its own place at the top of the main home page of <strong>ATD</strong>.</p>
<p>In all, we hope readers find our commitment to giving you high-quality and incisive work&#8211;from scoops to analysis to reviews&#8211;helpful and we welcome any feedback. </p>
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		<title>A Year in the Life of ATD Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the sixth edition of D: All Things Digital last week, we showed a synopsis of some of our favorite video highlights from AllThingsD.com over the last year. 

It features video from BoomTown, John Paczkowski (and his eyebrows!), Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret, venturing all over the tech universe with our all-seeing video eye.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the sixth edition of <a href="http://d6.allthingsd.com"><strong>D: All Things Digital</strong></a> last week, we showed a synopsis of some of our favorite video highlights from <strong>AllThingsD.com</strong> over the last year. </p>
<p>It features video from BoomTown, <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthings.com">John Paczkowski</a> (and his eyebrows!), <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com">Walt Mossberg</a> and <a href="http://solution.allthingsd.com">Katherine Boehret</a>, venturing all over the tech universe with our all-seeing video eye.</p>
<p>Expect even more video to come over the next year, as we try new ways of bringing our brand of high-level journalism to the site.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the video:</p>
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		<title>AllThingsD: All Things (Re-)Designed!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, we debut our new redesign of the home screen of AllThingsD.com.

It is, in fact, our second redesign since we launched the site in late April of 2007, although it is a much more drastic redesign, with a lot more elements added.

Why did we do it? No, we are not hyperactive (OK, we are, but we are taking medication for that).]]></description>
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<p>Today, we debut our new redesign of the home screen of <a href="http://allthingsd.com">AllThingsD.com</a>.</p>
<p>It is, in fact, our <em>second</em> redesign since we launched the site in late April of 2007, although it is a much more drastic redesign, with a lot more elements added.</p>
<p>Why did we do it? No, we are not hyperactive (OK, we <em>are</em>, but we are taking medication for that).</p>
<p>Actually, it is because we in the ATD brain trust (that would be Walt Mossberg and me), along with our many much-more-intelligent staffers and advisers, wanted to bring even more digital news and analysis to our readers by making more stories available on the front page from us and also from around the Web. </p>
<p>Our aim was simple: Now newsier than ever!</p>
<p>In fact, we hope you will find our new look linktastic, as we try hard to embrace the notion that ATD&#8217;s audience wants to be able to find great tech and media stories anywhere and everywhere. </p>
<p>Just fyi, the inside sections remain exactly the same&#8211;it is only the front page that has undergone the renovation.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a quick tour, from the top to the bottom of the page:</p>
<p><strong>Megablog:</strong> We combined the <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com">BoomTown</a> and <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com">John Paczkowski&#8217;s Digital Daily</a> blogs in one rolling one in the center rail.</p>
<p>We felt that it allowed us to feature a lot more of our stories on the main page longer, up to 20 typically, and also made it easier for readers to find stories before they dropped off the front.</p>
<p>We will be adding more material to this section soon, as we develop our content further.</p>
<p><a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com"><strong>Walt Mossberg:</strong></a> Walt&#8217;s weekly <a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com">Personal Technology</a> and <a href="http://mailbox.allthingsd.com">Mailbox</a> columns and <a href="http://mossblog.allthingsd.com">Mossblog</a>, as well as <a href="http://solution.allthingsd.com">Katherine Boehret&#8217;s Mossberg Solution</a>, move up and to the right in a high-profile spot.  </p>
<p>As ever, Walt is the site&#8217;s amazing anchor and a tech consumer&#8217;s greatest adviser, telling it like it is and writing reviews that matter.</p>
<p><strong>Tech Headlines:</strong> On the top left, we wanted to bring in the stellar work from our Dow Jones brethren at The Wall Street Journal, Barron&#8217;s and MarketWatch, as well as from the Dow Jones newswires, to give readers links to as many stories as we can as news breaks.</p>
<p>This section will be updated every nine minutes to keep it fresh and new.</p>
<p><a href="http://voices.allthingsd.com"><strong>Voices:</strong></a> This section on the left remains the same, except it goes vertical. We try to hand-select (no stinkin&#8217; algorithm for us) from across the digital blogosphere, so we can feature blog posts we think you need to see to keep up. </p>
<p>Also, expect more guest bloggers who write original posts just for ATD, like one tomorrow from Slide&#8217;s Keith Rabois, giving BoomTown a hard time for our problem with juvenile widgets.</p>
<p><strong>The Tech Top 10:</strong> Also on the left, just below Voices, we keep our edited Tech Top 10, a list of the stories we think you need to know about every day. </p>
<p><strong>Video:</strong> On the right is our featured video. We do a lot of video at ATD and we will feature our latest-posted here. </p>
<p><strong>Tech Around the Web:</strong> Also on the right, we are posting, via RSS, the feed from four digital news sources we like and think are useful for our audience.</p>
<p>Two are editorially driven sites, <a href="http://www.paidcontent.org">paidContent</a> and <a href="http://www.gigaom.com">GigaOm</a>, who we believe are combining the energy of the blogosphere and also providing readers with trusted reporting that also adheres to the standards of accuracy and ethics we try to operate under too.</p>
<p>This is a big focus for us at ATD and we want to point readers to high-quality material. They say you are judged by the company you keep and we could not agree more.</p>
<p>Both <a href="http://www.digg.com">Digg</a> and <a href="http://www.techmeme.com">Techmeme</a>, of course, are the key news aggregators of the sector and we like how helpful they are in surfacing important tech and media stories for readers.</p>
<p>Just click on each tab to get to each section. This section will also be constantly refreshed throughout the day.</p>
<p><strong>More ads:</strong> Well, we have to pay the bills, don&#8217;t we? We hope you do find them useful and don&#8217;t find them too intrusive. </p>
<p>There will be even more to come from us in the coming weeks, especially as we gear up for the sixth edition of the <a href="http://allthingsd.com/d"><strong>D: All Things Digital</strong></a> conference, which is taking place May 27 to 29. </p>
<p>So, please let us know what you think of our new look, as we would love feedback.</p>
<p>And special thanks to all who worked on the redesign, including Mike Monteiro of <a href="http://www.muledesign.com">Mule Design Studio</a> and especially the tireless and multi-talented <a href="http://allthingsd.com/about/adam-tow">Adam Tow</a>, our Web genius.</p>
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		<title>Waltgelina at Macworld, Part 1!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When BoomTown was at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, I followed my partner-in-tech-crime Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret around the floor of the famous gadgetfest with my annoying video camera (truth be told, I am the irksome one and the camera simply my tool of choice). 
And because Walt is so [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When BoomTown was at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, I followed my partner-in-tech-crime <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com">Walt Mossberg</a> and Katherine Boehret <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080109/kara-visits-ces-waltgelina-part-1/">around the floor of the famous gadgetfest with my annoying video camera</a> (truth be told, I am the irksome one and the camera simply my tool of choice). </p>
<p>And because Walt is so well known among the geek set, naturally, I dubbed him the &#8220;Brangelina of Tech.&#8221; </p>
<p>Thus, it is also natural that we deliver the same quality time with Waltgelina at Macworld, which was held yesterday in San Francisco and featured the famous annual keynote by his iLama Steve Jobs.</p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2008/01/about_johns.jpg' alt='johnsullivan' width="300" height="300" /></p>
<p>So, here is the first video of two of Walt visiting Macworld yesterday, trailed by our very brave </strong> Associate Editor <a href="http://allthingsd.com/about/john-sullivan">John &#8220;Sully&#8221; Sullivan</a>  (pictured here), who gamely borrowed BoomTown&#8217;s Flip video camera to take on the momentous task, since I was at meetings in Silicon Valley all day (there was, in fact, life beyond the Moscone Center yesterday).</p>
<p>Sullivan also did a most excellent job of <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080115/jobs-at-macworld-2008-isnt-that-great/">blogging the Jobs&#8217; keynote here</a>, as Digital Daily&#8217;s John &#8220;Patches&#8221; Paczkowski was indisposed. </p>
<p>In this episode, Walt introduces Sullivan to the floor of Macworld and then gives a first look and public-Walt-handling of the not-the-iPhone-but-cool-anyway MacBook Air subnotebook.</p>
<p>Is Walt impressed? You&#8217;ll just have to wait for his review until he puts it through its paces.</p>
<p>In the meantime, here is the video:</p>
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<p><a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080116/waltgelina-at-macworld-part-2/"><br />
Here is Part 2 of Waltgelina at Macworld</a>.</p>
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		<title>Kara Visits CES: Waltgelina, Part 1!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What better way to brave the massive canyons of the Consumer Electronics Show than to hike them with the help of Walt Mossberg, along with Mossberg Solution writer Katherine Boehret?
Or, as Walt likes to call it: the Bataan Death March.
But he secretly loves it, as the gathering at the heart of Walt&#8217;s universe of gadgets, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What better way to brave the massive canyons of the Consumer Electronics Show than to hike them with the help of <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com">Walt Mossberg</a>, along with Mossberg Solution writer <a href="http://solution.allthingsd.com/">Katherine Boehret</a>?</p>
<p>Or, as Walt likes to call it: the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March">Bataan Death March</a>.</p>
<p>But he secretly loves it, as the gathering at the heart of Walt&#8217;s universe of gadgets, devices and all things digital.</p>
<p>I jokingly call Walt the &#8220;Brangelina&#8221; of CES, since he is stopped constantly on the floor by fans who want to meet him in person and those who just want to kibitz with him about the latest and greatest trends in the tech sector.</p>
<p>In this first part of two videos, we see lots of big screens and a pile of other devices at CES, as Walt explains it all for you (<a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080109/kara-visits-ces-waltgelina-part-2/">Part 2 is here</a>):</p>
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		<title>Kara Visits CES: Waltgelina, Part 2!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the second part of my video of following Walt Mossberg, along with Mossberg Solution writer Katherine Boehret, around the floor of the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday:
In this, the second of two videos from the floor of CES, it is more big screens, more fanboys, more gadgets&#8211;just a typical day [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here is the second part of my video of following <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com">Walt Mossberg</a>, along with Mossberg Solution writer <a href="http://solution.allthingsd.com/">Katherine Boehret</a>, around the floor of the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas yesterday:</p>
<p>In this, the second of two videos from the floor of CES, it is more big screens, more fanboys, more gadgets&#8211;just a typical day in the life of Walt (<a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080109/kara-visits-ces-waltgelina-part-1/">Part 1 is here</a>): </p>
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		<title>We're Off to See the Wizards, the Wonderful Wizards of Geek!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kara Swisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, the AllThingsD team, including Walt Mossberg, Katherine Boehret, John Paczkowski and BoomTown, are headed for Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, that cornucopia of gadgets, gewgaws and whizzy devices and the geeks who love them that takes place all next week. 
We&#8217;ll be live-blogging, catching keynotes, doing videos and, most importantly, [...]]]></description>
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<p>On Sunday, the AllThingsD team, including <a href="http://walt.allthingsd.com">Walt Mossberg</a>, <a href="http://allthingsd.com/about/katherine-boehret">Katherine Boehret,</a> <a href="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/">John Paczkowski</a> and <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com">BoomTown,</a> are headed for Las Vegas for the annual <a href="http://www.cesweb.org/">Consumer Electronics Show</a>, that cornucopia of gadgets, gewgaws and whizzy devices and the geeks who love them that takes place all next week. </p>
<p>We&#8217;ll be live-blogging, catching keynotes, doing videos and, most importantly, giving you important insights about what the key tech trends are in the coming year. (Also, we hope to get in a few games of craps, but that&#8217;s neither here nor there.)</p>
<p>Some of the tech luminaries who will be appearing include Microsoft&#8217;s Bill Gates, Yahoo&#8217;s Jerry Yang and Paul Otellini of Intel, but the real action is on the noisy floors of the convention where gadgets vie for supremacy.</p>
<p>Some important themes, looking at the news coming out so far: mobile focus, social networking and wireless. </p>
<p><img src='http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2008/01/las-vegas.jpg' width='330' height='213' class='centered' alt='lasvegas' /></p>
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