Churchill Club

Viral Video: Walt Mossberg Demos Tangle-Resistant Ear Buds, an iPhone Beer Meter and More!

Kara Swisher in News on December 16, 2011 at 12:44 am PT

Drink up and measure your debauchery at the same time!

Viral Video: Rat Fingers, TouchFire and Sphero Demos

Kara Swisher in News on December 15, 2011 at 1:09 am PT

Here’s a demo of some cool and quirky gadgets for the holiday season.

Viral Video: Google Inside Out With Steven Levy

Kara Swisher in News on April 26, 2011 at 12:27 am PT

The Churchill Club posted this video of a morning interview session I did with author and journalist Steven Levy last week in Silicon Valley. Levy talked about his new book, “In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.”

Video: Steven Levy Talks About Google Book "In the Plex"

Kara Swisher in News on April 21, 2011 at 6:15 am PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown interviewed longtime author and tech journalist Steven Levy about his new book, “In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives.” I met Levy at the Plex in question–the Googleplex–to chitchat about what he learned after being embedded at the Borg, um, search giant for years.

Qualcomm to Give FloTV Users Money Back

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 10, 2010 at 9:29 am PT

Looking to move on from its painful foray into mobile television, Qualcomm says it will offer rebates to those who bought its FloTV mobile TV units. It had previously announced it would shut down the service in March.

Qualcomm CEO Explains What Happened to Smartbooks

Ina Fried in Mobile on December 2, 2010 at 6:30 am PT

A year ago, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was talking a lot about smartbooks. Today, well, not so much. For those who have already forgotten what the smartbook even was, the idea was to have a low-cost device that looked a lot like a netbook but offered far better battery life and instant-on capabilities. Once Apple released the iPad, though, everyone started focusing on tablet devices rather than on little notebooks. “Obviously, tablets are the flavor of the day,” Jacobs said in an interview on Tuesday.

Palm, Qualcomm Chiefs Weigh Wireless Future

Ina Fried in Mobile on November 30, 2010 at 6:32 pm PT

Palm-CEO-turned-HP-exec Jon Rubinstein and Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs faced off with Kara Swisher of All Things Digital at a Churchill Club event Tuesday night in an entertaining discussion on the future of mobile tech. Here’s my liveblog of the event.

Tussle in Brussels: The EC’s Oracle-Sun Hearing, End Game

John Paczkowski in News on December 14, 2009 at 9:00 am PT

Looks like Oracle has managed to ease European regulators’ antitrust concerns over its $7 billion acquisition of Sun–perhaps even enough for them to approve the thing. This morning, Oracle and the European Commission both said they have had “constructive discussions” about the company’s plans for Sun and, more specifically, its open-source MySQL database software.

Walt and Kara's Cavalcade of Gadgets on ZDNet

Kara Swisher in News on December 9, 2009 at 12:06 am PT

Last week, Walt Mossberg and I hosted the seventh annual gadgetfest, called “What’s Hot and What’s Not in Personal Technology,” at the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley. Every year, we show off a range of new tech toys to the crowd. And before the show, Walt and I displayed our wares for ZDNet, which posted these videos.

Freaky Geek Bear, Nooks, 3-D Cameras, Head Massages and a Facial for BoomTown: The Churchill Club GadgetFest Video!

Kara Swisher in News on December 4, 2009 at 8:05 am PT

Last night, Walt Mossberg and I hosted our seventh annual “What’s Hot and What’s Not in Personal Technology” program for the Churchill Club in Silicon Valley. Every year, we show off a range of new tech toys to the crowd, helped by our regular gadget freak, Greg Harper, and by guest “tech geek” celebs. This year they were Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Mike Schroepfer, the social networking site’s VP of Engineering. Here’s a video from the event.