As has been rumored and even reported on

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Given so many requests to be able to download the joint interview Walt and I did last week at our fifth D conference with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, we decided quickly to make them available on Apple’s iTunes, as well as on several Microsoft platforms.
It is now up on iTunes here, in [...]

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Here is the final prep video for the D conference, as we are coming down to the wire. Today is a full day of doing final rehearsals, making tweaks and, of course, having endless meetings (yes, conference-throwing is a glamorous profession).
The conference kicks off tonight with a cocktail party, followed by Walt and I interviewing [...]

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While Walt and I will come up with our own questions for Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, who will be appearing in an historic joint interview at our D conference tomorrow night, I was curious what others–some tech folks and some not in the industry–would ask the tech legends if they could in [...]

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We’re as busy as can be as our setup for the D: All Things Digital conference moves into overdrive. Aside from building the stage and the risers for the seating, we are also sorting through all the complicated audio-visual elements of the show.
But we also have to focus a lot on a major new element [...]

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We’re all in Carlsbad, Calif., now, getting ready for our fifth D: All Things Digital conference, which will begin tomorrow night.
So here’s one of my movies to show you how we prepare for the annual conference, which is highlighted this year by a joint interview with Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, the twin [...]

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While Walt and I will come up with our own questions for Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, who will be appearing in an historic joint interview at our D conference Wednesday night, I was curious what others–some tech folks and some not in the industry–would ask the tech legends if they could in [...]

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While Walt and I will come up with our own questions for Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, who will be appearing in an historic joint interview at our D conference next Wednesday night, I was curious what others–some tech folks and some not in the industry–would ask the tech legends if they could [...]

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While Walt and I will come up with our own questions for Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, who will be appearing in an historic joint interview at our D conference next Wednesday night, I was curious what others–some tech folks and some not in the industry–would ask the tech legends if they could [...]

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While Walt and I will come up with our own questions for Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs, who will be appearing in an historic joint interview at our D conference in one week, I was curious what others–some tech folks and some not in the industry–would ask the tech legends if they could [...]

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And what exactly did Quincy Smith get for handing over millions of dollars to the daily financial Web show, Wallstrip?

Well, to start, a cameo on its aggressively cute-as-ever episode yesterday. The jaunty president of CBS Digital wore sneakers with his uncomfortable-looking power suit as he gamely delivered his lines in a sendup of the site’s host–the also aggressively cute-as-ever Lindsay Campbell–arriving at the media giant’s headquarters in Manhattan without anyone caring.

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So soon enough, you will be hearing a lot about the joint interview with tech legends–Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs–that Walt and I will be doing exactly a week from tonight at our D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif. (You can read Dow Jones’s press release on the May 30 event [...]

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One step forward, several leaps back–at least for consumers when it comes to big entertainment conglomerates.
At the cable show in Las Vegas last week, I was actually somewhat surprised when Comcast COO Stephen Burke said the cable giant was talking to interested studios with the aim of showing movies on cable premium-priced ($30 to $50), [...]

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Cisco CEO John Chambers needs to get a crash course in Web lingo, it seems. Yesterday, on a conference call with analysts about the company’s strong third-quarter earnings, he kept talking about “Web 2.0,” as if he had just discovered gold in the Klondike.

That makes a bit of sense, given that Chambers has been [...]

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Today, the folks from Hillcrest Labs visited me at my home to show off their latest version of what they call an “operating system for the television,” which they had first shown off as a demo at the D3 in May 2005. The Rockville, Md.-based company is one of many trying to reinvent the television [...]

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