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Singing Elvis, Wii lightsabers top Kara Swisher's holiday list

At a Churchill Club event, All Things Digital's Kara Swisher shows CNET News Editor in Chief Dan Farber some new tech ideas for the holidays. Swisher demonstrates Wii Star Wars Lightsabers, a talking first-aid gadget by SafetyMate, and a robotic Elvis that you can sing along with karaoke-style.

Tags: Holiday, Nintendo Wii, Swisher, Kara Swisher, Dan Farber, Singing Elvis

Videos 2008-11-21

Walt Mossberg picks hot holiday gadgets

At a Churchill Club event, The Wall Street Journal columnist Walt Mossberg shows CNET News Editor in Chief Dan Farber new gadgets consumers might want to consider buying for the holidays. Mossberg demos some new tech products including RIM's new Blackberry Storm, the MinoHD by Flip Video, and Sony...

Tags: Smart Phones, Handhelds, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Walt Mossberg, Dan Farber, Blackberry Storm, MinoHD, Xperia X1

Videos 2008-11-19

Choosing Yahoo's next CEO

At a Churchill Club event, Wall Street Journal columnist Kara Swisher tells CNET News Editor in Chief Dan Farber whom she'd pick to succeed Jerry Yang as Yahoo's chief executive. The AllThingsD blogger believes that the No. 1 choice inside and outside of Yahoo is News Corp. Chief Operating Officer...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., AllThingsD Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Kara Swisher, Dan Farber, Yahoo, Peter Chernin

Videos 2008-11-19

Programming note: Politics meets tech

In the next few weeks, CNET and CBS will be tag teaming the Democratic and Republican national conventions surfacing technology issues as they pop up. Dan Farber has all the details and ways you can submit questions. Dan writes: With the Democratic and Republican national conventions...

Tags: CBS Corp., CBS Interactive Inc., Convention, Corporate Communications, Dan Farber, Larry Dignan, Marketing, Programming, Republican

Blog posts 2008-08-15

TripIt, getting organized for travel

Dan Farber and Rafe Needleman sit down with Gregg Brockway of TripIt.com, a Web site that helps travelers organize and share their travel itineraries.

Tags: Itinerary, Rafe Needleman, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, News, Dan Farber, Gregg Brockway, webware, travel, tripit, organization

Videos 2008-06-27

Daily Debrief: Yahoo turns the page

News.com's Charles Cooper and Dan Farber discuss the aftermath of the company's long-awaited reorganization news.

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Page, News, charles cooper, dan farber, yahoo, jerry yang, susan decker, microsoft, bill gates, steve ballmer

Videos 2008-06-27

FriendFeed, the glue for social networks

Dan Farber and Rafe Needleman interview Bret Taylor, co-founder of FriendFeed.com, a Web site that enables friends to instantly share and discuss everything they find interesting on the Internet.

Tags: Glue, Network, Rafe Needleman, Internet, Social Networking, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, News, Dan Farber, Bret Taylor, webware, friendfeed, twitter, social networking

Videos 2008-06-25

Scaling fast-growing Facebook

Jonathan Heiliger, vice president of technical operations at Facebook, talks with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber about devising the infrastructure to support the social network's hypergrowth.

Tags: Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, News, dan farber, facebook, social network, Mark Zuckerberg

Videos 2008-06-23

Daily Debrief: Yahoo's health checkup

In Thursday's Daily Debrief, CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the state of the company more than four months after Microsoft's takeover bid. What do all the recent staff departures mean and why hasn't Yahoo better articulated its plan to move forward?

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, News, daily debrief, kara tsuboi, dan farber, yahoo, board, carl icahn, microsoft, acquisition

Videos 2008-06-12

Breaking down Microhoo, more

CNET News.com's Dan Farber and Charlie Cooper discuss Jerry Yang, Yahoo, and the company's possible future partnership with Microsoft. They also explore Bill Gates' legacy at the company he co-founded.

Tags: Business Structures, Finance, News, charlie cooper, dan farber, all things digital, jerry yang, yahoo, steve ballmer, bill gates, microsoft

Videos 2008-05-30

Who's behind 1938 Media?

CNET News.com Editor In Chief Dan Farber talks with Loren Feldman, the founder and president of 1938 Media. They discuss the creation of the video production company, which is gaining notoriety, in part because of Feldman's crazy "Shel Israel" puppet.

Tags: Notoriety, Media, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, News, dan farber, loren feldman, 1938 media, video, youtube, online media, shell israel

Videos 2008-05-29

Staying current with Microhoo

CNET News.com's Editor in Chief Dan Farber and Charles Cooper discuss the tangled web that is Microsoft and Yahoo. Also, they delve deeper into the latest news and speculate what the near future might bring for each company. Could Microsoft be interested in Facebook too?

Tags: Editor-in-chief, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Marketing, News, dan farber, charles cooper, microsoft, yahoo, facebook

Videos 2008-05-19

A rundown of 'L'affair Microhoo'

CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber takes a few minutes to highlight the key points in all the corporate maneuvering of Microsoft's would-be acquisition of Yahoo and gives his take on where the failed bid leaves both companies.

Tags: News, dan farber, microsoft, google, yahoo, mergers, internet, stock market, Editor-in-chief, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations

Videos 2008-05-08

JavaFX's day in the Sun

Dan Farber has some information about JavaFX from the JavaOne keynote today. It sounds like it wasn't a great day for demos but that we're starting to get a better picture of JavaFX and what the plans are. Michael Coté has some additional information about Sun's plans around Java as...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Internet Application, JavaOne, JavaFX, Dan Farber, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-05-07

Moving beyond Microhoo

News.com's Dan Farber and Ina Fried discuss how the deal fell apart and where the two companies go from here.

Tags: News, ina fried, dan farber, microsoft, yahoo, merger, stock market

Videos 2008-05-05

Is the Web 2.0 economy in limbo?

CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber and reporter Caroline McCarthy wrap up the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco and discuss the current Web 2.0 boom and how long it will be sustained.

Tags: News, dan farber, caroline mccarthy, web 2.0, san francisco, mark andreesen, social networking

Videos 2008-04-25

Top social networking sites in US in February 2007

MySpace.com’s audience grew just 4% in February 2008 from February 2007, whereas second-place Facebook’s more than doubled, growing 102% year over year, according to Nielsen Online. LinkedIn, meanwhile, increased its unique audience a whopping 271% year over year, reaching 7.4 mln in Feb., compared with 2.0 mln a year earlier...

Tags: Facebook, Network, Audience, MySpace, Social Networking, Microsoft Windows, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Operating Systems, Software, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-03-26

Ray Ozzie bringing 'syncromesh' to the Web

Guest post: Dan Farber, Between the Lines alumnus and founding editor-in-chief of ZDNet, is editor-in-chief of CNET News.com. Ray Ozzie has a history of trying to break through software and usability barriers. With Lotus Notes, he and his team spent years creating the underlying client/server collaboration technology to...

Tags: Web, Device, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Mesh, FeedSynch, Synchronization, Channel Management, Groupware, Servers, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-03-06

Transition time at ZDNet

This will be my last post on Between the Lines and ZDNet for a while. I am moving over to head up our sister CNET Networks site News.com starting today. My talented, experienced, incisive and prolific BTL partner Larry Dignan will become Editor in Chief and Chief Blogger...

Tags: Blogger, Blogging, CBS Interactive Inc., Dan Farber, Internet, Larry Dignan, Management, Team, Team Management

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Vertica brings higher speeds to ad hoc queries

Michael Stonebraker has a history of database breakthroughs. He was a founder of Ingres, Illustra, Cohera and StreamBase Systems. He also served as CTO of Informix and helped develop Postgres. His most recent creation is Vertica, which just launched version 2.o of its database. The claims...

Tags: Michael Stonebraker, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-19