The big question for me is: What will all the iPhonatics do after the much-hyped iPhone from Apple debuts this Friday to continue to feed their state of expectant euphoria?
iPhone 2.0!
But until then, we might as well wallow in it.
So here is a funny report from Engadget about the imagined possibilities for the next cheaper [...]
The Wall Street Journal has a special “D: All Things Digital” tab today, with excerpts from several of the interviews that took place onstage a few weeks ago at our fifth conference. I did a video for it, embedded below.
The interviews featured are with famed filmmaker George Lucas, CBS CEO Les Moonves, Time Inc. CEO [...]
I am not sure what to think of this wacky video from Google that Tinu Abayomi-Paul wants to be able to download off the Web. It’s a video made by the search giant to show off the new Street View feature in its maps product, except using a guy in an orange suit who gears [...]
For those who missed it in “The Sopranos” frenzy (and stop arguing now–it was a good ending), CBS’s “60 Minutes” did a pretty warm and fuzzy profile of media and Internet mogul Barry Diller on Sunday.
He comes off charming and smooth, expertly batting away all suggestions by interviewer Lesley Stahl that he is tough to work for, or too imperious, or paid too much or that his various Internet companies under the InterActiveCorp banner are too disparate.
I only had to drive by both the Apple store in downtown San Francisco and then the Moscone Center nearby yesterday to feel the relentless gravity of the Mac faithful gathered inside at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, waiting for some juicy tidbit from the Oracle.
Or, as I like to call him, Steve Jobs.
The CEO of Apple launched his speech at 10 am yesterday with a massive force of live bloggers at the ready to take down his every utterance. A shame then that, despite what looked like a very entertaining show as usual, not much news was actually committed.
The first video Mischael Cetoute said that he wanted to download was a bit too “Chongalicious” for our Web site (you can look that video up yourself on YouTube), although he noted, “It’s really popular down here in Miami.”
Gallantly, he sent us another one, embedded below, which is called “How To Crank Dat Soulja Boy,” [...]
I’ll admit it–I had never heard of the Swingle Singers until Srinivasan Rajagopal sent me a link from India, where he lives as a self-described “music nut” and “YouTube maven.” Indeed, he also provided me with 16 clips he would download from the Web were he to get his hands on new software to do [...]
Well, it’s about time Microsoft’s Bill Gates amounted to something. Just being one of the most powerful figures in technology (and, oh yes, the world’s richest man) is all well and good, but you’re nothing without that Harvard diploma hanging from the wall of your gigantic and luxurious Seattle compound.
Check that task off for Gates, [...]
Roger McNamee is very bullish on the iPhone. “It’s the most exciting thing in years,” said the longtime Silicon Valley investor. “With Apple’s identity, I think it will be spectacularly successful.”
This, of course, is an interesting product for McNamee to cheer for. Because last week, Elevation Partners, the high-profile private-equity firm that counts McNamee and [...]
Howard Fishman’s selection of a Web video he would like to download: A live performance of the Beatles.
RealNetworks is offering the beta software of its RealPlayer 11, which allows users one-click downloading of non-DRM-protected video from the Web, to AllThingsD.com visitors to try out before it is released later this month.
CEO Rob Glaser debuted [...]
The head of Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, must be swelling even larger after the comment News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch made at the very end of an extended interview he gave to The Wall Street Journal yesterday. In very short order, the feisty media baron managed to compliment the 20-something’s social-networking site while simultaneously [...]
With all credit and kudos to the dedicated fans whose protests caused CBS today to reverse its decision to give the heave-ho to the series “Jericho,” we hope we added one tiny cashew last week to the pile of nuts that got a major media company to give in.
“You got our attention; your emails and [...]
In the rush of D5, I neglected to make those interested an offer I am sure you will not refuse–RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser has given me 50 beta accounts to hand out to AllThingsD.com visitors to test out the new RealPlayer 11, which now allows users one-click downloading of nonprotected video from the Web.
Glaser debuted [...]
While it did not get a lot of play last week when Time Warner COO Jeffrey Bewkes dangled the idea of a stock offering for its AOL unit, the suggestion made my head hurt all over again thinking about the myriad opportunities that the online unit had missed over the last few years being held [...]
The interview Walt and I did with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs last week at D5 is now the No. 1 podcast on Apple’s iTunes, beating out National Public Radio’s “Car Talk,” “This American Life” and the Best of YouTube.
The link to the joint interview on iTunes is here, in video and [...]
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 »
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