Walt Mossberg and BoomTown are in San Diego for DEMOfall, one of two big tech start-up demo conferences taking place this week (the other is TechCrunch50 in San Francisco).

At both conferences, a passel of start-ups come to show off their wares to an audience of press, venture capitalists and one other.

Walt and I also appeared here this afternoon onstage in what was called “Head-to-Head,” a feature which we hope to debut on this site soon.

Read More »

BoomTown is back from a seasick cruise vacation in the wilds of Alaska–official sightings: lots of icebergs, 16 glaciers, a passel of jellyfish and starfish, four lumberjacks, three orcas, two seals, one otter, no moose or bears and, yep, one Republican Vice Presidential candidate’s lovely house in Juneau–just in time for school.

Or, more precisely, a little schooling for some of the tech companies that I cover in a mildly obsessive-compulsive manner.

All of them, I predict, are in for a news-filled fall.

Thus, here is a rundown of what to expect and also what some of those companies need to focus on over the next several months.

Read More »

BoomTown is Alaska-bound today, on a lovely vacation cruise with the family–up the coast leaving from Vancouver and sailing to Seward this week and part of next week.

So, even if Yahoo is finally sold to Microsoft, I will likely be too busy communing with a moose to blog. One can only hope.

Read More »

OK, BoomTown admits we love Obama Girl, but this video has to be the strangest one in the series by Barely Political.
In this one just released, former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel–who made a run at the Democratic presidential nomination and is now trying to be the Libertarian Party candidate and who is not, let us [...]

Read More »