All Things Digital

Skip to main content.

BoomTown

Friday, January 11, 2008

Andy Jordan Gets Tasered at CES and Does Other Stuff Too

How did we miss this video of WSJ.com’s Tech Diary vlogger Andy Jordan getting Tasered by a leopard-skin device at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this past week?

Fun!

Here he mistreats an animatronic dinosaur, which calls for more Tasering:

And here Jordan checks out tricked-out trucks at CES:

Read More »

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Rest for the Wary

While we at D: All Things Digital don’t style ourselves as peacemakers, one of the genuine sateen pillows that we had tossed blithely about our party in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday night seemed to have a dulcet effect on bringing together faux foes.
Pictured below is Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis and [...]

Read More »

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Kara Visits CES: Waltgelina, Part 1!

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’s universe of gadgets, [...]

Read More »

Kara Visits CES: Waltgelina, Part 2!

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–just a typical day [...]

Read More »

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Kara Visits CES: Gadgetfest and Gondolas!

Digital Daily’s John “Patches” Paczkowski and I continued our trek through the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show and the neon streets of Las Vegas last night, even though we ended up in the fake daylight of fake Venice by the end of the evening.
Here’s a video of a bunch of companies showing at CES, which [...]

Read More »

Monday, January 7, 2008

Kara Visits CES: Jerry Yang Emails It In

How glad BoomTown was to finally see Jerry Yang up close and personal, after our valiant but futile efforts to get near the Yahoo co-founder and CEO in 2007.

No, we’re not stalking him in a restraining-order kind of way, although I did stake a claim to a front row seat in the intimate theater at the Las Vegas Hilton for his keynote this morning at the Consumer Electronics Show, where Yang couldn’t help but see me.

Like he cared!

Read More »

Kara Visits CES: Diva Las Vegas!

So we arrived at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with Digital Daily’s John “Patches” Paczkowski yesterday from rain-sodden San Francisco, and launched right into gadgetmania.
While there does not seem to be much news or truly groundbreaking products as of yet out of anywhere–”It’s like no one has anything new, but we have [...]

Read More »

Buh-Bye Bill: Tech’s Heart Will Go On

Lots of people were bellyaching about the lackluster nature of Bill Gates’s final performance at CES last night–long on deals and stats and short on the futuristic predictions Gates often makes.

Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski was unimpressed, as were Duncan Riley of TechCrunch and ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, for example.
But, to my mind, giving the Microsoft [...]

Read More »

WSJ.com: Videos From CES in Las Vegas

Here’s a lovely selection of videos from the Consumer Electronics Show, taking place this week in Las Vegas, from the folks at WSJ.com. (BoomTown videos to come, of course!):

Read More »

Friday, January 4, 2008

We’re Off to See the Wizards, the Wonderful Wizards of Geek!

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’ll be live-blogging, catching keynotes, doing videos and, most importantly, [...]

Read More »

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Jerry Coming Out at CES! (Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That!)

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang emerged from his hibernation den over at Yahoo yesterday and didn’t see his shadow.
So do better-than-expected revenues mean spring is on the way for the struggling Web giant? We’ll see, but it means we might see a lot more of the shy-of-late Yang, who accepted a big keynote slot at the [...]

Read More »

Latest BoomTown Videos

More Videos »

About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

Read more »