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Reporters' Roundtable: Reporter's Roundtable Ep. 128: Rafe's Outie Awards

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 06:00:00 PDT

This is the last Reporters' Roundtable, so Rafe Needleman does some navel-gazing and gives out awards to the products, companies, and ideas he liked best. And worst. With guest Brian Cooley.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 127: Attack of the drones

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:00:00 PDT

How the movement to develop of small, cheap, and autonomous robotic flying vehicles will change the way war is waged and what governments and businesses can do, and how hobbyists are leading the charge.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 126: Mesh Networks

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:00:00 PDT

How and why we're going to build unbreakable, unjammable smartphone networks.

Reporter's Roundtable Ep. 125: Google I/O dissected on Reporters' Roundtable

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:22:25 PDT

The search company launched new hardware products, a new push into media distribution, and staged a product pitch during a skydive. Are we watching a new Google emerge?

Reporters' Roundtable: Facebook IPO

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:12:52 PDT

All-star cast discusses Facebook IPO shortly after the opening bell.

Reporters' Roundtable: Evernote CEO Phil Libin

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:00:00 PDT

On the heels of raising money at $1 billion valuation, we talk with the Evernote CEO about building durable companies and dealing with a bubble economy.

Reporters' Roundtable: Reporter's Roundtable Ep. 122: Free gifts for your Facebook friends, with Wrapp

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:00:21 PDT

Swedish social gifting company strikes deals with U.S. brands to help you celebrate your friends by giving them gift cards preloaded with marketing dollars.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 121: Wavii founder on the future of news

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:39:01 PDT

Adrian Aoun, the founder of the news-reading and summarizing app Wavii, talks with Rafe Needleman about the genesis of his technology and how far it can go.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 120: Google Glasses

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:59:21 PDT

Google has announced that it working on Project Glass, an effort to create a glasses-based heads-up display for the real world. What's the technology? When will it be available? We discuss with our writer Martin LaMonica, and with the CEO of a company making augmented reality goggles that you can buy today.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 119: Google+ leaders talk about the redesign

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:18:37 PDT

In a special Roundtable, Google's Vic Gundotra, and Bradley Horowitz discuss how Google claims 170 million users for Google+, why the service was just redesigned, and their favorite features.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 118: The big mess at Yahoo

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:00:00 PDT

On the heels of filing a dangerous patent lawsuit against Facebook, Yahoo also just laid of 2,000 employees. What's up at Yahoo, and can it bounce back? We discuss with Charles Cooper of CNET and Kara Swisher of All Things D.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 117: Can you be forced to give up your Facebook password?

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:58:13 PDT

Is the private side of your social network really private? What do you do if an employer asks to see into your personal world? We discuss with Bob Sullivan, author of the "Red Tape Chronicles" for MSNBC.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 116: JOBS Act makes crowdfunding the law

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:11:16 PDT

How the JOBS Act will change the rules for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors, with perspectives from guests George Zachary, Chance Barnett, and Tim Rowe.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 115: New tools for Inventors

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:01:23 PDT

If you've got an idea for a product, there are new ways to bring it to market. Rafe Needleman talks with Yancey Strickler of Kickstarter and Jim Newton of TechShop about innovations in funding and prototyping.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 114: Apple TV is a bigger deal than you think

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:38:24 PST

So Apple just released a "resolutionary" iPad. Big deal. The really interesting product here is the new Apple TV, which is at the forefront of Apple's push to control the living room. We discuss with CNET reviews editors John Falcone and Matthew Moskovciak.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 113: Couch Potato 2.0

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:55:22 PST

Not content to feed you just one screen of entertainment, content and app developers are working on apps that make your tablet or smartphone a companion screen to the main event. Join our discussion on the rise of the "Second Screen."

Reporters' Roundtable: Mountain Lion and the evolution of operating systems

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:36:14 PST

Apple has embarked on an ambitious plan to release a major OS X upgrade every year. What's it mean, and why? And what's missing from Mountain Lion, the upcoming update to the Mac OS?

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 111: Lightsquared and the spectrum mess

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:06:22 PST

How do you throw away $4 billion? Buy spectrum you can't use. That seems to be what Lightsquared did, once the FCC revoked a license that would have let the company build a new nationwide wireless broadband network. Today, Rafe discusses with CNET editors Roger Cheng and Maggie Reardon what happened here, why, and what it means for consumers.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 110: Failure is always an option

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:26:37 PST

Rafe Needleman, with guests Owen Thomas and Brooke Hammerling, looks at how different tech companies have dealt with failures and errors: Apple, Google, Facebook, Airbnb, and, most recently, Path. How can you recover from a public drubbing? How do you prepare for one?

Reporters' Roundtable: Why Klout matters

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:25:19 PST

Rafe talks with one of Klout's early venture funders, Shervin Pishevar, and TechCrunch writer Josh Constine.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 109: What is Facebook going to do with all that money?

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:42:52 PST

Facebook filed to go public this week. It plans to see $5 billion of stock. What will Facebook do with the money? Can it continue to hold off Google? Is mobile its next major battleground? This week on the Roundtable, Rafe discusses Facebook's future with Josh Constine from TechCrunch and Shervin Pishevar from Menlo Ventures.

Reporters' Roundtable: NY Times responds to Apple memo

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:46:42 PST

On Reporters' Roundtable hosted by CNET's Rafe Needleman, New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg responds to a memo to Apple employees from CEO Tim Cook regarding working conditions in Chinese factories that make Apple products. The memo came the same week Duhigg's co-written article, "In China, Human Costs are built into an iPad," was published in The New York Times.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 108: Apple's China problem

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:57:28 PST

iPhones, iPads, and most other small electronics are assembled in vast factories in China. Reports on working conditions at these plants are not favorable. Could Apple do more to improve conditions? Could the jobs be brought to the U.S. instead? And would consumers care either way? We discuss with New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg, and the author and performer of "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," Mike Daisey.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 107: What SOPA hath wrought

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:17:33 PST

The backlash against the SOPA and PIPA anti-copyright bills continues. Major sites took themselves offline. The U.S. government shut down MegaUpload. Anon launched a successful attack against government Web sites. All of these events are related, and the stories are still developing. That's what we're talking about today, with CNET experts Declan McCullagh, Greg Sandoval, and Elinor Mills.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 106: SOPA blacks out the Web

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:16:28 PST

Today, several high-profile sites "blacked out" in protest of the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills. What effect are these actions having on the Web, and the legislation? We discuss with Declan McCullagh of CNET and Trevor Timm of the EFF.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 105: CES, where new technology fights for deals.

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:49:20 PST

There's more happening at CES than just big companies launching giant new product lines. Each year, startups vie for attention from consumer electronics partners and from investors who attend the show. Discussing this topic with Rafe Needleman: CNET's Paul Sloan and VC Josh Stein from DFJ.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 104: Debating the CNET 100

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:07:42 PST

Fanboy fist-fight! CNET Reviews editor-in-chief Lindsey Turrentine and CNET executive editor John Falcone join Rafe in a debate over the best, worst, and most important tech products of 2011.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 103: The car as app platform

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:24:01 PST

Forget tablets, forget smartphones. The real mobile platform that matters is the automobile. On this Roundtable, we discuss what's going into cars and how it's getting there, with CNET Car Tech co-host Brian Cooley and Ford product Manager Julius Marchwicki.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 102: Holiday tech buying update

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:55:12 PST

We're in the middle of the holiday buying season right now, so it's a good time to talk about how the world has changed for gadget buyers--and sellers. Join us for a discussion with the New York Times' Claire Cain Miller and Decide.com CEO Mike Fridgen.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 101: The rise of the connected consumer

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:35:58 PST

We are in the middle of a revolution in consumer commerce. We use our social networks to get advice from friends and mobile devices to scan prices at stores in real-time. How are retailers going to deal with the new consumer come Black Friday? Join Brian Solis, author of The End of Busienss as Usual, in conversation with Rafe Needleman

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep 100: 11 predictions for 11/11/11

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:32:27 PST

Special guest Tom Merritt joins Rafe Needleman on the 100th episode of the Roundtable to argue over 11 tech predictions for the next 11 years.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 99: The RIAA defends SOPA in the fight over content rights

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:46:02 PDT

Is SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, going to kill the Internet? Or is it the law we need to keep content providers in business? We discuss the controversy with RIAA Senior Executive Vice President Mitch Glazier, and CNET commentator Larry Downes.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 98: Can Nokia come back from the dead?

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:18:06 PDT

Nokia once ruled the mobile phone business. But it has never made a successful smartphone for the U.S. market. Nokia just released two Lumia smartphones running the Windows Phone OS. Will they reverse Nokia's misfortune? Join Rafe Needleman's discussion with CNET experts Jessica Dolcourt, Jay Greene, and Roger Cheng.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 97: Frontiers in search

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:08:30 PDT

And you thought search was done. Startups and upstarts keep trying to chip away at Google. From Microsoft to MC Hammer, there are challengers coming from everywhere. Today we talk about them, with guests Paul Sloan and Harry McCracken of CNET News, and Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive and former CEO of Ask.com

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 95: Bring your own technology

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:16:02 PDT

On today's show: How to sneak personal technology into your workplace. Or, put more respectably, the "Consumerization of Inormation Technology." Our guests: Fritz Nelson, Editor-at-large for Byte, and Tom Gillis, VP at Cisco.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 95: Guy Kawasaki on what we learned from Steve Jobs

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:43:09 PDT

There are several life lessons in the way Steve Jobs started Apple, then left, came back, ran the company, launched products, and disrupted several industries. All of us in technology--or indeed in any business--can learn from them.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 94: Amazon Fires straight at Apple

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:27:11 PDT

We're in the middle of an exciting news cycle: Amazon is going after Apple's tablet business with its $199 Kindle Fire. And Apple is hosting a big iOS press announcement on October 4. How are the companies squaring off? Join Rafe and a panel of CNET experts to discuss.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 93: Netflix, Dish, and Facebook rewrite the video marketplace

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 02:46:26 PDT

It's been a big news week for video and movies on the Web. Netflix split apart, Dish announced Blockbuster-branded video services, and then Facebook introduced social video players. We discuss the changes with Ryan Lawler of GigaOm and Andrew Wallenstein of Variety.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 92: The quantified self and the healthy body

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:20:30 PDT

Two startups give you feedback on how you walk, move, stand, and sit to make you a more aware and healthier person.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 91: How the 9/11 attacks changed technology forever

podcast@cnet.com (CNET.com) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:00:48 PDT

MIT Technology Review editor and publisher Jason Pontin joins Rafe Needleman to discuss how the terrorist attacks ten years ago changed the direction of technology and policy development mostly for the better, but in some cases for the worse.