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What does Facebook's cult insignia really signify?

Perhaps you, like the hallowed eyes and minds of CNET's Buzz Out Loud, were made uncomfortably moist by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's rather peculiar performance at the D8 conference.

Certainly, as he fretted and sweated, you wondered just what was really going through his mind and how many cold beers and compresses he might have needed to return to himself after such a difficult experience.

Perhaps the most open, most connected (on a human level), and certainly the most erotically charged moment of the interview was when Facebook's CEO removed his hoodie. This revealed a logo on … Read more

Ford CEO Alan Mulally live at D8

Ford CEO Alan Mulally has come to D8 to take the hot seat, a position he should be used to after steering Ford through the recent financial crisis. Ford shunned the bailout money that carried GM through a restructuring and sustained Chrysler through its sale to Italian automaker Fiat.

Ford recently released Sync, a voice-activation package on some models that integrates the content and functionality of mobile devices with the car itself. Sync also adds apps to the car, though it's not clear what these features will mean for the future of American automakers.

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Mulally appears onstage … Read more

HTC straddles Windows and Android worlds

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--HTC chief Peter Chou said on Thursday that the company doesn't have to pick sides in the battle between Windows Mobile and Android.

"We are actually committed to both," he said, speaking at the D: All Things Digital conference. "People are different. Different people like different things."

Windows has a lot of legacy users, Chou said. "We understand the value of Windows. Windows has a lot of value."

Android, he said, offers a good Internet experience combined with Google's Web services, making it more geared to the social-networking … Read more

Buzz Out Loud 1241: Facebook needs an adult...and a towel (podcast)

Poor Mark Zuckerberg has an almost-literal meltdown on-stage at All Things D and it makes us wonder: is it time for a grownup to take over there? Or just time for Zuck to throw his privacy boss under the bus? Also, HP doesn't want to make smartphones with its new WebOS toy, the Dell Streak continues to baffle, and hey! Globular rovers!

Walt and Kara sweat Zuck at D8 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006653-56.html http://d8.allthingsd.com/20100602/mark-zuckerberg-session/ http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/06/02/mark-zuckerberg-great-perspirations/

Ballmer and Ozzie http://d8.allthingsd.com/20100603/steve-ballmer-ray-ozzie-session/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006637-56.html

HP CEO: “We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business” http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/02/hp-ceo-we-didnt-buy-palm-to-be-in-the-smartphone-business/

Dell Streak looks like HTC Evo http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20006644-56.html… Read more

D8 provides look at streaming-game service OnLive

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--Streaming-game service OnLive, which launches in two weeks, gave attendees at D: All Things Digital a look at both its initial service as well as some things that might be possible down the road.

OnLive CEO Steve Perlman said that, although gaming is its first application, the service is really aimed to tap the power of cloud computing.

"If we can make gaming work, we can make anything work," said Perlman, a WebTV founder who also spent time at Apple and Microsoft.

In addition to playing games on televisions or computers that couldn't … Read more

Ballmer and Ozzie speak at D8 (live blog)

Editor's note: We used Cover It Live for this event, so if you missed the live blog, you can still replay it in the embedded component below. Replaying the event will give you all the live updates along with commentary from our readers and CNET editor Josh Lowensohn. For those of you who just want the updates, we've included them in regular text here.

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie are slated to speak Thursday at the D: All Things Digital event.

Check back around 8 a.m. PDT for … Read more

D8 confab brings out the bigwigs (roundup)

Movers and shakers at this year's D: All Things Digital conference range from opening-night guest Steve Jobs to Steve Ballmer, James Cameron, and the FCC's Julius Genachowski.

Hands-on with Qualcomm's Mirasol e-reader An up-close look at screen technology that tries to marry the battery life and easy reading of E-Ink with the video and color of traditional displays. (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) June 3, 2010 12:31 PM PDT

HTC straddles Windows and Android worlds The head of the cell phone maker said that each mobile operating system has its place in the world. (… Read more

Zuckerberg in the hot seat at D8

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his company's approach to privacy, saying it makes sense for users to have a mix of information: some that's shared narrowly and some that should be made broadly available.

"There have been misperceptions that we are trying to make all the information public," Zuckerberg said, speaking at the D: All Things Digital conference here. That said, for social networks to link people to one another, some information must necessarily be public, he said. "There's some serendipity that can only happen if you are sharing," … Read more

Up close with the Dell Streak

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--The tablet parade at D: All Things Digital continued into Wednesday afternoon, with Dell doing a brief onstage demo of its 5-inch Dell Streak device.

The Android-powered gadget is bigger than any smartphone but smaller than nearly all other tablets. The size of the device seemed to puzzle the conference moderators, with Walt Mossberg saying that using it as a phone was like holding a waffle to his head, while Kara Swisher said the most likely use for the device was as something to eat.

That reaction came in stark contrast to the veritable love fest … Read more

FCC chair: We have a plan for better broadband

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--Pressed on why the U.S. pays more for slower broadband than other countries, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Wednesday that the government has a plan.

"We do," he said in a speech at the D: All Things Digital conference. "I think we have a plan to tackle this."

"I think we are going to have spectrum congestion for a long time," he said.

Genachowski also pointed to the role that unlicensed spectrum can play, pointing to what happened when the FCC opened up a particular part of the spectrum. … Read more

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