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All Things D Live: Melinda Gates, Bride of Bill

One of the most fascinating profiles I’ve read this year is the Melinda Gates cover story from Fortune. She’s here at Walt and Kara’s All Things D Conference to talk about The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where Bill will be directing most of his energy come July. Although this is not directly gadget related,…

All Things D Live: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos On The Past and Future Of The Kindle

8:19 Jeff is on stage. 8:20 Mossberg: Why sell hardware like the Kindle? Bezos: How we get there is by putting our customer’s needs as a priority instead of what we’re already good at. You need to renew yourself with new skills. When we looked at ebooks, you needed a microscope to find the sales.…

Quotable: Bill Gates Hates Monopolies?!

Last night at All Things D, we got to witness Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer being interviewed by Mossberg and Swisher. We also got Windows 7 photos and features. But there was also a funny moment when Gates said: https://gizmodo.com/all-things-d-live-bill-gates-and-steve-ballmer-intervi-393551 Guys like us avoid monopolies. We like to compete. For the entire context, check the…

A Highlight of My Year: All Things D Conference This Week

Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s conference, All Things D, will be starting tonight, and I’m excited to be attending the entire event. You’ve got hours of great interviews between Walt and Kara and tech titans like Gates and Ballmer of Microsoft, Howard Stringer of Sony, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tom Rogers of TiVo and Michael…

Mossberg Takes Back 3G iPhone in 60 Days Quote

The Walt Mossberg clip that made the rounds this weekend, proclaiming the 3G iPhone a mere 53 days away? He just backpedaled on it, swearing he has no better idea than we do. And if he did, he’d give himself scoop: “If I knew when this date was, why would I announce it in the…

Walt Says 3G iPhone Coming in 60 Days

Walt Mossberg has confirmed what AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega already hinted at CTIA: the iPhone will be 3G-capable “in 60 days.” Mossberg said it 6:53 into this Beet.tv feature. Knowing that it’s going to be one year after release, what De la Vega said, and the fact that Walt gets his mitts…

Lenovo X300 vs MacBook Air Mossberg Bitchfight

After rediscovering the Lenovo X300, the Mighty Mossberg has analyzed it, inevitably pitting it against the Apple MacBook Air in a classic fight of blood, dead and more blood and dead. And you know exactly what the outcome is. https://gizmodo.com/mossberg-discovers-the-lenovo-x300-356003 Here are the main points of the Lenovo X300, compared to the MacBook Air, according…

Miracles: Mossberg Says Dell XPS One Is Better Machine than an iMac

Click to viewToday, December 27 at 1:01AM EDT, The Supreme Pope of Tech Walter Mossberg has declared the Dell XPS One a better machine than the iMac. And yes, that sound you thought you dreamt was Steve Jobs screaming and Hell freezing over. The Dell XPS One comes “sightly ahead” of the iMac because of…

Mossberg on Zune 2: ‘Still No iPod’

Walt Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal’s tech gnome, got a chance to play with Microsoft’s new line of Zunes, and he was pretty ambivalent about them. While he thinks they’re a noticeable improvement over the first generation, that’s not really saying much seeing how unimpressed he was with those. And he hates the Pink. But…

This is where Walt Mossberg goes to eat when he visits Japan.

Our Leopard Review Matrix

Click to viewDon’t have time to read over the full reviews from NYT’s David Pogue, USA Today’s Ed Baig and WSJ’s Walt Mossberg? Read our handy review matrix instead, where we break out everything that wasn’t merely feature description in an easy-to-compare chart. You can thank us later! • Pogue’s NYT review • Ed Baig’s…

Mossberg Keeps On Dreaming of a Phone Revolution

Mossy’s column today is a remix of his Wireless Telcos as Soviet ministries joke, told first in a June 2005 column. He complains about phone companies locking handsets to carriers, and making them lame little pocket convenience stores for ringtones, and so on (my words). The timepeg is Apple’s new promise of a software development…

Mossberg Reviews the iPod touch

Mossy reviews the touch, and finds that the battery life was only 4 hours while playing video, short of our own touch experience that lasted over 6 hours. The money quote is when he calls Apple out for removing features and apps that the iPhone has, unnecessarily: https://gizmodo.com/apple-ipod-touch-review-verdict-good-in-the-face-of-g-300127 …it seems ridiculous to me to sell…

Mossberg Looks at Ubuntu Linux on a Dell (Verdict: Not Quite Ready for Primetime)

We Ubuntu hitting Dell a while ago, but Walt Mossburg’s just now getting around to giving them a go—apparently after a barrage of mail from readers, the same thing that prompted Dell to put ’em out. Evaluating it “strictly from the point of view of an average user,” he thinks “still too rough around the…

VMWare Fusion Review by Mossberg

Walt Mossberg appears to be scooping again. This time, it’s a review of VMWare’s Fusion (Available this Monday, August 6th). The software, like Parallels, allows PC programs to run from within OS X. Mossberg compares them, simply: Parallels has more features than Fusion…But I found Fusion puts less strain on the computer overall. Jacqui at…

Steve Jobs Kinda Answers Some iPhone Questions

Mossberg gets Steve Jobs to talk iPhone. Except when he asks about version 2.0. Those questions are forbidden. The rest of the questions are important ones. Like will we see this on other carriers? Why no 3G? Will you include GPS? Will there be lower cost versions? Aaaaand, Jobs dodged those, too. An old lesson,…

Mossberg’s iPhone Video Review

Mossberg’s lost the funky music in the intro, and compared to Pogue’s video, he’s all business. The interesting bits left out of the text review are here, like, in regards to the keyboard, "I wanted to throw it out the window after 3 days". (Of course, he came around eventually, comparing it in speed to…

Breaking: Mossberg Reviews the iPhone, Says Keyboard A-OK After Five Days

Mossberg and Boehret review the iPhone, 3 minutes after Pogue at the NYTimes. In a nutshell: Our verdict is that, despite some flaws and feature omissions, the iPhone is, on balance, a beautiful and breakthrough handheld computer. Its software, especially, sets a new bar for the smart-phone industry, and its clever finger-touch interface, which dispenses…

Walt Mossberg Has the iPhone

Ooooohhh. Someone’s gonna be in trouble with Steve Jobs. Mossberg has the iPhone as of this morning, and he’s already flaunting it in public. An explicit rule between Apple and A-listers with early access is that this kind of showboating is a no-no. It’s too soon for a review, but Mossberg kind of commented on…

All Things D is Done and I’m Still Smiling

D5, Mossberg and Swisher’s conference is over, and I am still smiling. 100% news, no bullshit. And it was fun. Did you know that D had a Ben and Jerry’s ice cream booth? Wednesday was intense. 5 hours of liveblogging, inside of a 20 hour work day. • Ballmer and the Surface Table, with Mossy…