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Bezos On Kindle: ‘We Would Love To Have Color’—And Every Book Ever - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 02 Jun 2008 08:51 PM PST

Just before D6, Rafat and I—both Kindle users—were talking about books on our respective reading lists and how many of them, particularly new non-fiction, couldn’t be downloaded to the device. …

@ D6: Kevin Martin, Chairman, FCC, and Lowell McAdam, CEO, VZW: The “is” of Broadband & Open Access - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 29 May 2008 12:29 PM PST

The chairman of FCC, Kevin Martin, is under the fire right away, speaking at the D conference..he is asked about how U.S. is falling behind in broadband: “You have to…

@ D6: TiVo CEO Tom Rogers: Game Over For Trying To Get People To Watch Commercials; Disney Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 29 May 2008 11:06 AM PST

Updated with video highlight below: TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO) CEO Tom Rogers is speaking on stage this morning, fresh from announcing the company’s Q108 results, and is making the case that…

What’s Happening At Jamba? Strategic Options? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 09:41 PM PST

What will happen tomorrow at Jamba? The mobile content company which is majority owned by News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and rest owned by Verisign, has a big meeting tomorrow, according…

@ D6: Murdoch On WSJ: We Can Charge A Lot More; Looked At Bebo For $100M - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 08:43 PM PST

Updated with video clips below courtesy of AllThingsD Rupert Murdoch, the new owner of D conference, and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), is speaking in the last keynote of the day…

@ D6: Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Sandberg; Beacon Was “Big Mistake”; End Goal Isn’t IPO - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 May 2008 05:55 PM PST

Updated with video clips, after the jump, courtesy of AllThingsD: Facebook’s still-new COO Sheryl Sandberg and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are in the D spotlight’s glare now ... Kara Swisher actually…

@ D6: TW’s Bewkes: AOL Doesn’t Get The Respect We Deserve - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 May 2008 03:06 PM PST

Updated with video clips, after the jump, courtesy of AllThingsD: Following a TMZ video about how brutal this interview is going to be, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes has just…

@ D6: The Defiant Yang: I Bleed Purple - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 02:25 PM PST

The best and slightly desperate part from Yang yet, in his keynote Q&A at the D conference: “The perception of us being a company under siege is not accurate. The…

@ D6: Yahoo’s Yang and Decker: It Is Like You Break Up With Your Girlfriend in High School - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 02:05 PM PST

Updated with video clips, after the jump, courtesy of AllThingsD: The most anticipated keynote interview is on now: Jerry Yang and Sue Decker, and Walt dives right in asking about…

@ D6: Diller On The Liberty Spat and Life After - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 11:09 AM PST

Updated with video clips, after the jump, courtesy of AllThingsD: Barry Diller is on stage at D conference, speaking about the Liberty spat and his stint at Delaware court: “Partnerships…

@ D6: Stringer on Digital Music: The Vanishing Album Is An Issue - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 10:13 AM PST

Howard Stringer, the CEO of Sony (NYSE: SNE), is on stage talking about, among other things, Sony’s position in music: “We have sold about 170 million music enabled phones, which…

@ D6: Activision CEO On Social Gaming - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2008 09:29 AM PST

Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) CEO Bobby Kotick on social gaming: “It is bringing new users into the gaming market...you are seeing a lot of traffic on those sites and places like…

@ D6: Bezos: Amazon To Launch PPV Video Streaming - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 May 2008 08:46 AM PST

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is on the verge of launching an a-la-carte pay-per-view video streaming service, Jeff Bezos told attendees at D6. The service is meant for a subset of people…

@ D6: Sony’s Stringer: PS3 Not On Life Support Anymore - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 May 2008 08:26 AM PST

Sir Howard Stringer is doing a star turn as chief salesman for Sony (NYSE: SNE). One of his top messages: Playstation 3, which was “sort of on life support before”…

@ D6: Jeff Bezos: Kindle Contributes 6 Percent Of Title Sales - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 May 2008 08:21 AM PST

Walt Mossberg and Jeff Bezos are talking Kindle. No details on actual unit sales or downloads but Bezos does toss a news bone—the Kindle is now responsible for 6 percent…

@ D6: Serendipity Supper: Gates Holds Court - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 28 May 2008 08:05 AM PST

It’s 8 am and I’m sitting in the Four Season auditorium listening to Jill Sobule sing about dying record companies—“I’ve got nothing to prove, once I was as miserable as…

You Tell Me…. - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 27 May 2008 11:05 PM PST

Ballmer and Zuckerberg at the D conference....

@ D6: Gates, Ballmer: Scale Is Key; Still Great Team Without Yahoo - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 27 May 2008 06:33 PM PST

Here at D listening to the Bill and Steve show—Gates and Ballmer this year, no repeat of last year’s star turn by Steve Jobs. It starts with the Microsoft-Gates farewell…

@ D6: Les Hinton: We Stand For Journalism - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 27 May 2008 06:28 PM PST

In the middle of apprehensions about the major editorial changes at Wall Street Journal, some reassurance from Les Hinton, the new-ish CEO Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), at the opening of…

Live From D6: The Schwag Bag This Year - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 27 May 2008 03:45 PM PST

As has been customary for the last two years I have attended the D conference, the first post is always about the schwag bag...and there is a reason for it:…

Gates & Jobs Interview: Now in Full For Download - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 04 Jun 2007 12:35 AM PST

On iTunes, where else....the full video and audio of the very enjoyable joint interview is here now, for download. Microsoft will follow soon with their formats, but who wants to…

@ D: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Comes Out Swinging Against Viacom - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 May 2007 12:15 PM PST

Schmidt: The Viacom lawsuit was probably just a mistake, because the issue is DMCA and whether it applies here and whether we have joint responsibility. They should have waited for…

RealNetworks New Version Of RealPlayer; Allows Downloads & Rip-Burn Of Videos From Other Sites - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 May 2007 11:52 AM PST

RealNetworks has retooled its flagship video player RealPlayer, and made is more controversial: it will now allow users to download online videos from other sites, burn them to DVD and…

@ D: Colbert Introducing His Boss - 1 Comment
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 May 2007 10:43 AM PST

Very funny intro to Philippe “Dough Man” Dauman’s interview at D: Updated: Looks like it got taken down by D for some reason...will post when it comes back online. Update:…

@ D: Viacom CEO Phillipe Dauman - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 31 May 2007 10:26 AM PST

One of the first calls I got when I became the CEO was Eric [Schmidt]. I am not about lawsuits, I like doing deals. We have had no problems in…

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