A star-studded cast at D6 confab
The sixth annual "D: All Things Digital" media and technology conference, hosted by The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, takes place May 27 to 29 in Carlsbad, Calif., and promises an A-list of industry players. Among those scheduled to speak are Microsoft's Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Sony's Howard Stringer, Time Warner's Jeff Bewkes, IAC's Barry Diller, and Amazon's Jeff Bezos.
Memorable quotes from D6
John Paczkowski has come up with his list of the best quotes from the D6 conference. At the top of the list is this one from Bill Gates: "Guys like us avoid monopolies. We like to compete."
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Offbeat Guides: Build your own travel books
Technorati founder David Sifry says good-bye to blog search and hello to book publishing, but in a very Web 2.0 way.
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Trying to erase the Ghosts of the past
Israeli-Palestinian start-up Ghost has modest ambitions: supplant Microsoft's Windows and create Mideast peace. News.com's Ina Fried looks at the latter issue.
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Icahn gets FTC's OK for Yahoo stock buy
Reuters notes that the Federal Trade Commission has given the nod on the billionaire investor's effort to build up Yahoo shares.
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D6 wrapup: The access panel
Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher grill Lowell McAdam, CEO of Verizon Wireless, and Kevin Martin, chairman of the FCC.
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TiVo CEO: Popular TV doesn't mean watched ads
Tom Rogers says that a show's ratings don't necessarily correlate to the most popular advertisements.
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Addicted to the Web? Walk it off
The Walkstation is a stand-up desk integrated into a treadmill. So now you can take a walk while you're working.
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Melinda Gates: Giving away billions getting easier
The co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said that the charitable work got less hard once she and her husband decided to focus on the world's big problems.
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23andMe demo at D6: People pay for this?
Some do, and some won't have to: New service opens up 23andMe data to grant-based and ad-hoc researchers.
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Murdoch goes candid on reporting, politics
At the D6 conference, News Corp.'s chairman shares his philosophy on creating and delivering news, as well as his views on the presidential race.
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Report: Glam Media to snub billion-dollar buyout offer
VentureBeat reports that the ads-and-content network is turning down $1.3 billion in favor of becoming even bigger. Is an IPO on its road map?
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What Dean Kamen plans to show off
News.com's Ina Fried has the scoop on what Kamen will demonstrate Thursday. It's a new kind of prosthetic arm.
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Ghost and Glide show Web OS innovation at D6
Microsoft won't do it (yet), but small start-ups are not afraid to build online OSes and app suites.
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Video: Murdoch unplugged
The News Corp. boss talks politics, the Internet and newspapers, among other topics. Love him or hate him, he doesn't pull any punches.
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Murdoch on Microhoo: 'I'm mystified'
Rupert Murdoch says he can't understand why Yahoo won't take Microsoft's money or why Microsoft isn't pressing the point.
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Glam Media launching revenue-sharing video platform
GlamTV Platform will allow the video assets in Glam Media's woman-focused network of sites to be shared to new destinations.
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Zuckerberg: The end goal isn't to sell the company or IPO
Mark Zuckerberg and his new COO Sheryl Sandberg stay on message during an interview with Kara Swisher at D6.
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Video: Yahoo's Yang on the hot seat
The Yahoo CEO, along with company president Sue Decker, field questions from the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg at the D: All Things Digital event.
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Reuters CEO: Microsoft, Yahoo need each other
Thomson Reuters chief executive Thomas Glocer said he'd be surprised if there wasn't yet a way to make a deal.
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Live from D6: Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook
Zuckerberg discusses Facebook at the D6 conference.
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Nathan Myhrvold at D6: Don't call me a patent troll
"Thomas Edison's business model was very similar to ours," says Intellectual Ventures co-founder.
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News.com Daily Podcast: The shape of Windows to come
Microsoft's touching OS news; new congressional Internet row over China; live and in color--it's Mars!
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Time Warner CEO gets a grilling at 'D'
Jeff Bewkes finds himself on the hot seat on everything from the AOL merger to the company's current strategies.
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Jerry Yang and Sue Decker defend Yahoo's honor
Yahoo's top two executives come out of their serial and secretive negotiations with Microsoft and Google to shed light on the future of the company at D6.
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Myhrvold on Microhoo and his new cookbook
The former Microsoft executive says the Yahoo deal is at least worth considering. Plus, he shares a little on what's cooking in his own kitchen.
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Live from D6: Jerry Yang and Susan Decker of Yahoo
Check out Yahoo's pitch to the D6 intelligentsia through our live blog of the two execs being interviewed by The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg.
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Up close with Sony's ultrathin TVs
CNET News.com gets a good view of Sony's OLED TVs and design expert Martha Stewart's take on the superthin technology.
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IAC's Barry Diller: Google is irrelevant to us
Speaking at the D6 conference IAC Chairman Barry Diller said Google is irrelevant to his Ask.com business and explained his quest to spin off five public companies.
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Dell: We missed some pretty big things
Michael Dell talks about the company's past stumbles and looks ahead to Dell's renewed growth and innovation.
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Sony CEO Stringer: You can't afford our best TV
Howard Stringer on LCDs, OLEDs, Blu-ray, iPods, and the movie experience.
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'Guitar Hero' rocks D6
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick talks about the rise of casual gaming and whether we will all need virtual reality helmets anytime soon. Coming up: a demo of the next Guitar Hero.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos: A passion for Kindle and digital content delivery
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos kicks off morning proceedings announcing a new streaming-video service and talking about the Kindle e-book reader.
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Bezos: Amazon to launch paid streaming video service
Amazon to deliver streaming content.
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Upcoming D6 live blogs: Jerry Yang, Mark Zuckerberg
Tune in for as-it-happens coverage from D6.
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Evri building a data graph of the Web
Debuting today at D6, the technology creates profile pages with meaningful connections among people, locations, products, and events.
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Windows 7 demo at D6: Really? That's it?
Multitouch schmultitouch. Show me the bones. Plus: Check out the Microsoft video of Windows 7 and chime in with your thoughts.
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Gates and Ballmer at D6: The movie
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer reminisce about 28 years of working together and address a number of topics in an interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at the D6 conference.
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Windows 7, Windows Mobile on PDC docket
Microsoft plans to use a Professional Developer Conference, which it hasn't held since 2005, to give developers a chance to see new efforts on both the desktop and the cell phone. Ray Ozzie is keynoting, so services will also be front and center.
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D6: The swag rocks
Every year, the tech intelligentsia gather for discussion, demos... and tchotchkes.
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Microsoft to add multitouch interface to Windows 7
Microsoft says the new technology, which is expected to arrive in late 2009, will work with existing touch screens.
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Gates to spend 20 percent of his time on Microsoft projects in retirement
At a reception prior to the start of the D6 conference, Bill Gates said he would work on a variety of projects after his July 1 "retirement."
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Gates on Yahoo: It's up to Steve
At the D: All Things Digital conference, Bill Gates talks about his new job and says he'll leave the Yahoo questions for Steve Ballmer to address.
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Gates and Ballmer at D: Live Blog
Along with Webware's Rafe Needleman, News.com's Ina Fried is covering the Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer event live from D6 in Carlsbad.
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Live at D6: Windows 7
Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates will be live on stage at the D6 conference. Tune in here for the live blog.
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Gates and Ballmer to show a little Windows 7 skin at D6
The D: All Thing Digital conference will begin tonight with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer on stage. The two legends of Microsoft will offer the first public peek at Windows 7.
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What we just learned about Windows 7
In his first interview discussing the next Windows, engineering head Steven Sinofsky didn't exactly tell all, though a few things are clearer. News.com's Ina Fried tries to make sense of things.
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Windows chief talks '7'
In an exclusive interview, Steven Sinofsky offers up a few details on the new operating system and the rationale for why he is not saying more publicly.
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