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Reporters' Roundtable: Net neutrality

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:39:01 PDT

The argument over network neutrality. Will business interests kill the future of the Net? Does the FCC know what it's doing? To discuss these topics, and of course the recent Google/Verizon proposal, we're joined by author and frequent CNET contributor Larry Downes and CNET News.com writer Maggie Reardon.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ep. 43: Security Report--Takeaways from Black Hat and Defcon: Live!

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:24:35 PDT

We sent three reporters to the dual security conferences, Black Hat and Defcon, last week in Las Vegas. Each--Declan McCullagh, Elinor Mills, and Seth Rosenblatt--has a different coverage area and perspective. Today we talk with them about their experiences and their takeaways from the annual hackathon in the desert.

Reporters' Roundtable: Art of Start

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:49:44 PDT

Got a great idea for your own tech company? Today we're talking about how to make it a business, with two great guests: XMarks CEO James Joaquin, and Mahalo CEO (and This Week in Startups host) Jason Calacanis

Reporters' Roundtable: State of the blogosphere

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:50:12 PDT

What are they good for? Where are they going? We have three experienced guests today to discuss: Anil Dash, who was employee #1 at blog platform company Six Apart; Sachin Agarwal, the CEO of Posterous; and Kourosh Karimkhany, COO of the company that produces Talking Points Memo. Don't miss this look into current and future state of the blogosphere.

Reporters' Roundtable: How to use social media in your business

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:20:23 PDT

Some companies get social media, and some don't. What kind do you work for? Today, we're discussing the incredible success of the Old Spice YouTube campaign compared to Apple's top-down over-control of communication around the iPhone 4 antenna problems. Guests are authors Brian Solis of FutureWorks, and Rick Bakas of the St. Supery winery.

Reporters' Roundtable: What's really wrong with the iPhone radio?

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:22:44 PDT

The iPhone 4's radio problems can't be solved with a software fix, no matter what Apple says. We talk with CNET's Maggie Reardon and AnandTech's Brian Klug about what's really wrong with the iPhone 4 and why it appears to be so much worse than other phones.

Reporters' Roundtable: Space

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:48:19 PDT

Why go to space? And how? This week, space journalist Miles O'Brien and Commercial Spaceflight Federation president Bretton Alexander talk about how our space program has changed since Apollo, whether we're going back to the moon or pressing on to Mars, and how we need to build the "Interstate for Space" to get to either of those rocks.

Reporters' Roundtable: CNET Showcase Live: Slates and Netbooks

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:01:06 PDT

Can the iPad be stopped? Rafe talks with CNET experts Dan Ackerman and Donald Bell about the market for ultraportable computers, and what the iPad has that Netbooks never did.

Reporters' Roundtable Ep. 37 Wireless device security

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:14:16 PDT

In light of the hack on the iPad 3G that matched device identifier codes to e-mail addresses of users, today we're focusing on wireless device security and cellular network safety. Hear from security expert John Hering (Lookout Security) and CNET News reporter Elinor Mills on the current and future threats to your mobile data.

Reporters' Roundtable: E3 preview & the future of Games

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:08:42 PDT

E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, is coming up next week, and CNET News is sending Josh Lowensohn and Daniel Terdiman to the show to report on it. We've got them both in the house today to tell us what to expect.

Reporters' Roundtable: What is artificial life?

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:20:41 PDT

Last month, Craig Venter announced that he had modified a living organism by replacing its DNA with a synthetically-created genome. Today we're talking with Dr. Kiki Sanford and Dr. Mark Bedau about this new technology. Listen to the show to learn not just how it works, but what it means for all of us.

Reporters' Roundtable: Will app stores save software?

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:03:18 PDT

Today we're covering the shift in the software business caused by app stores and the Web. Our guests are two great experts in the field: Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, and Jeff Clavier, of SoftTech VC. These guys are making money from software. So watch -- and learn.

Reporters' Roundtable: Our perilous infrastructure

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:20:41 PDT

This week, an inconvenient truth. We're talking about our national infrastructure--power, water, transportation, and the like--and how it's a mess from a security perspective thanks in no small part to the growth of the Internet. With special guest, nuclear engineer Joe Weiss.

Reporters' Roundtable: The patent mess

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:21:09 PDT

We're digging into the patent quagmire this week, with CNET's Molly Wood and special guest Nilay Patel of Engadget. Are patents stifling innovation or helping it? We look at recent cases and try to sort it out.

Reporters' Roundtable: Ethics and online journalism

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:48:14 PDT

Gizmodo paid for an iPhone, largely thought of as an ethical lapse, but ethical problems have plagued journalism since long before blogging. In the Roundtable today, CNET Editor in Chief Scott Ard and the Poynter Institute's Kelly McBride discuss how new forms of media are changing what we expect from our news sources.

Reporters' Roundtable: Facebook and privacy (podcast)

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 03:22:03 PDT

Facebook recently rolled out privacy changes and new data-sharing features. As usually happens when Facebook makes a privacy change, there was a swift and mighty backlash. Didn't Facebook learn from Beacon? To discuss Facebook's latest moves, Rafe Needleman is joined by CNET's Declan McCullagh and by Kara Swisher from All Things Digital.

Reporters' Roundtable: Twitter's business model

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:59:03 PDT

Twitter finally has a business model: It's selling search ads. Yes, after all this waiting, Twitter is pulling a Google. To discuss the long-awaited monetization scheme for the microblog service, Rafe Needleman is joined by CNET's Caroline McCarthy, and the New York Times' Claire Cain Miller.

Reporters' Roundtable: Can the iPad save journalism? (podcast)

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:53:38 PDT

Is the iPad the magical device that can do for newspapers and magazines when CD ROMs, the Web, and RSS readers could not? Join Rafe Needleman in discussion with PaidContent's Rafat Ali and the New York Times' Damon Darlin.

Reporters' Roundtable: CNET Showcase: 3D in the home

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:23:58 PDT

CNET introduces CNET Showcase: A new series of live hands-on demos for tech fans. In our first event, experts from CNET and Retrevo discuss 3D technologies before introducing the live audience to five vendors' newest and hottest 3D products.

Reporters' Roundtable: The Internet meets the TV

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:32:07 PDT

Today we're discussing the merger of your television with the Web. In other words: The set-top Internet box. With great guests Avner Ronen, CEO of Boxee; and Christina Warren, who covers this market for Mashable.

Reporters' Roundtable: Apple vs. Google!

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:18:59 PDT

This week: Google vs. Apple, or "It all started out so well." With Google experts Tom Krazit from CNET, Farhad Manjoo from Slate, and Brad Stone from the New York Times.

Reporters' Roundtable: Maps and mapping

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:07:25 PDT

This week: Mapping! It's one of my favorite topics. We'll discuss how maps are made, who owns the aerial image of your backyard, and how to crowd-source mapmaking. With Peter Birch of Google and Nick Black of Cloudmade.

Reporters' Roundtable: The future of laptops

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:49:59 PST

It's been four years since laptop computers passed desktop in unit sales in the US. But laptop vendors can't rest. The netbook phenomenon swept the tech world in 2009, changing the rules for the category. And this year, tablets like the iPad, might change the nature of personal computing yet again. To discuss the future of this laptops and personal computing, we talk with Matt Kohut of Lenovo and Rahul Sood of HP.

Reporters' Roundtable: The soul of Microsoft

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:44:25 PST

Looking into the soul of Microsoft, past, present, and future. We have three guests to plumb the depths of Microsoft's spirit, two of whom have been at points in their careers tireless advocates and evangelists for the company.

Reporters' Roundtable: Future of visual effects

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:05:17 PST

Being that we are a little more than a week away from the Academy Awards, this show is about one of the awards categories: visual effects. We talk with Russell Earl of ILM, who was co-visual effects supervisor on the new Star Trek movie, and with Daniel Terdiman of CNET, who covers the category for CNET News.

Reporters' Roundtable: Google Buzz vs. your privacy

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:53:03 PST

Last week, Google launched Buzz, a status update tool with elements of Twitter, Facebook, and Friendfeed in it. When the app first launched, it's fair to say it was a little too eager to use and share the details of users' personal networks. What was Google thinking? We have two guests to discuss: Mike Yang, Managing Product Counsel for Google, and Jared Kaprove a fellow at EPIC, the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Reporters' Roundtable: HTML 5 vs. Flash

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:09:24 PST

HTML 5 and Flash are battling for the future of the Web. The competing platforms--one open (HTML 5), one proprietary (Flash)--both support video, interactivity, and access to local devices. Which will the Web embrace? To discuss, we have Stephen Shankland of CNET and John Herrman of Gizmodo.

Reporters' Roundtable: Google vs. China

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:33:01 PST

It may be the biggest story of the year: On January 12 the search company announced it was pulling out of China. We're going to discuss why Google did that, what's new in the story, and what's likely to happen as this story continues to unfold. Guests are Google reporter Tom Krazit, security writer Elinor Mills, and politics and policy writer Declan McCullagh.

Reporters' Roundtable: What the iPad means for Apple

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:16:55 PST

The iPad. Perhaps you've heard of it. On this week's Roundtable, we talk about what the iPad means to Apple as a company and the tech industry at large. What's up with Apple and Google? Will the App Store change how families computer? To discuss these and other issues we have Peter Burrows, senior writer from BusinessWeek, and Donald Bell, CNET senior editor.

Reporters' Roundtable: Charity 2.0

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:49:54 PST

The earthquake in Haiti had an important technological component: Through the text message giving program, the Red Cross raised $26 million in funds in just 9 days. Was this a one-time outpouring of goodwill, or the beginning of a trend in global humanitarianism made possible by technology? To discuss: Guests Caroline McCarthy from CNET News, and Jonathan Aiken, director of media relations for the Red Cross.

Reporters' Roundtable: 3D TV debunked

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:48:15 PST

CES overloaded the industry with 3D TV hype, and it's time to bust it. Rafe Needleman interviews CNET's John Falcone and HDNation's Robert Heron on the practical realities, and likely future, of 3D TV.

Reporters' Roundtable: Elements of design

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:36:44 PST

Rafe Needleman interviews design experts from frog design and MOTO Development Group on the elements of consumer electronics design, from budget to aesthetics to material science. Recorded at CES.

Reporters' Roundtable: Biggest tech stories of 2009

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:00:33 PST

This week on the Roundtable, Rafe Needleman talks about the biggest tech stories of 2009 with CNET Editor-in-Chief Scott Ard and Buzz Out Loud host Tom Merritt.

Reporters' Roundtable: Google Chrome OS

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:33:31 PST

What's behind the Google Chrome OS, technologically and from a business perspective? Rafe Needleman discusses with CNET writers Stephen Shankland and Gordon Haff.

Reporters' Roundtable: Air travel tech

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:27:25 PST

Rafe Needleman interviews Patrick Smith of Salon's Ask the Pilot, and Evan Konwiser of the new Flightcaster service, on how technology is changing commercial air travel, for the better and the worse.

Reporters' Roundtable: Worst business decisions ever

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:26:14 PST

In the history of tech, some decisions stand out...as truly awful. This week, Rafe Needleman speaks with executive editors Charlie Cooper (CBS News) and Jim Kerstetter (CNET News) to go over the worst tech business decisions ever.

Reporters' Roundtable: Funny business

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:53:00 PST

Rafe Needleman interviews two experts on the business of online humor: Ben Huh, CEO of the Cheezburger Network, the company behind Failblog, ICanHazCheezburger, ThereIFixedIt, and other sites you're probably wasted your lunch hours on; and Ryan Dolan, previously in business development at the Onion, now making a go of it with his own business of selling funny products, 30Watt.

Reporters' Roundtable: The business of app stores

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:28:07 PST

The App Store business model, nearly perfected by Apple, has changed the way software is made, sold, distributed, and priced. Join Rafe Needleman in discussion with CNET's Maggie Reardon and GigaOm's Sebastian Rupley.

Reporters' Roundtable: The Future of the Book

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:35:11 PDT

This week on the Roundtable, we discuss the future of book publishing. Guests Andrew Savikas from O'Reilly Media, and our own executive editor David Carnoy, talk about the upcoming Barnes and Noble Nook, the continued success of the Amazon Kindle, the anticipation over a rumored Apple tablet device, and electronic books in general.

Reporters' Roundtable: The Dangers of cloud computing

podcast@cnet.com (CNETTV.com) — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:31:17 PDT

Can you trust your personal or business data in the cloud? This week, CNET senior writer Stephen Shankland and cloud security expert Christofer Hoff discuss what it takes to make a cloud service safe, and how to deal with them while they're getting there.