5 posts and columns on Brangelina

Waltgelina 2011: Walking the CES Floor With Walt and Katie

in News on January 10, 2011 at 9:05 am PT

BoomTown likes to take an annual walk on the floor of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with Walt Mossberg and Katherine Boehret to get a perspective of their very long march and what’s coming next. Then, I get to leave!

BoomTown Headed to Vegas for the Umpteenth Time–And I Am Not Even Tiger Woods!

in News on January 6, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

BoomTown will be Southwesting to Las Vegas today for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, being held there over the next several days. CES has certainly lost some of its immediacy over the last several years, but it is still the place to see a lot of different kinds of tech treats in one spot and try to discern the tech tea leaves. This year, Walt Mossberg and I are trying to up the ante a bit by throwing a substantive interview event with top tech execs, which All Things Digital will be live-streaming on Friday. So, what happens in Vegas, stays right here.
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Weekend Update 5.09.09

in News on May 9, 2009 at 11:30 pm PT

It was like a liveblogging tournament this past week–one that included a lot of the big players, but ended in a three-way tie. According to BoomTown’s reliable sources, the elusive Microsoft-Yahoo deal is making “meaningful” progress. Accordingly, BoomTown also wondered whether Ballmer planned on visiting Carol Bartz on his trip to the Bay Area this week, or if the proximity of Stanford to Yahoo was just chance, given that Stanford was his main destination.
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The AppleTwitter-Equals-iBrangelina Experiment*

in News on May 6, 2009 at 4:05 am PT

Yesterday, in a BoomTown post about the latest unproven rumors that the world’s most iconic computer company, Apple, was in “late-stage” negotiations to buy Silicon Valley’s latest pretty young thing, microblogging service Twitter, I wrote: “Oh, the very notion of Apple and Twitter is a Techmeme dream-ticket, sure to be chewed over for days on end. (I once considered doing a post that just said “AppleTwitterAppleTwitterAppleTwitter…” for 1,000 words to see how much idiotic traffic I would get.)” Well, I reconsidered.
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BoomTown's Annual Waltgelina Walk at CES: Walt and Katie on the (Less Crowded) Floor

in News on January 13, 2009 at 8:15 am PT

As BoomTown did last year, I took to the much-less-crowded floor of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with tech review kingpin Walt Mossberg and Mossberg Solution columnist Katherine Boehret to get their take on the scene. Of interest to Walt was the Palm Pre launch and the Yahoo Connected TV initiative. For Katie, it was a $2,000 cellphone. Here’s the video of their ruminations.