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Viral Audio: A Look Back at Tech in 2011, and Forward to 2012

Kara Swisher in Media on December 28, 2011 at 1:06 am PT

Should auld iPhone 5 be forgot and never brought to market …

BoomTown on KQED's "iPhone or iSpy" Radio Show (Audio)

Kara Swisher in News on April 29, 2011 at 9:02 am PT

The Apple iOS and Google Android smartphone location-tracking kerfuffle. Smarty-pants commentators. KQED’s “Forum” radio show with interviewer Michael Krasny yesterday. Go!

A New Social Network Where Inquiring Minds Run Wild

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 18, 2011 at 3:38 pm PT

Katie takes a look at Quora, a question-and-answer site that encourages thoughtful—even long-winded—discussions.

Queen Sarah and Duchess BoomTown Talk Yahoo Layoffs on KQED Radio

Kara Swisher in News on December 15, 2010 at 9:00 pm PT

Yesterday, TechCrunch Senior Editor Sarah Lacy and I went on Michael Krasny’s Forum show on San Francisco’s KQED public radio station to talk about the Yahoo layoffs earlier this week. During the talk, Lacy declared herself queen, so I dubbed myself a duchess. Thus, we are blog site royalty, which I compared to being the rulers of Latvia. Sorry, Latvia!

Amazon Opens Up on Kindle Sales, Says "Millions" Sold This Holiday Season

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 13, 2010 at 10:30 am PT

Amazon.com has sold “millions” of its new Kindle models in the first 73 days of the holiday quarter, according to a post by the Kindle team in an online forum.

Viral Radio: Facebook Flap

Kara Swisher in News on October 21, 2010 at 1:18 am PT

Here’s a radio interview BoomTown did earlier this week on San Francisco’s KQED “Forum” show, hosted by Michael Krasny. The topic was a report in the The Wall Street Journal that certain third-party apps on Facebook were grabbing information about users in ways that violated the social networking site’s privacy guidelines.

Pandora's Tim Westergren Speaks!

Kara Swisher in News on October 11, 2010 at 6:17 am PT

Here’s an interesting video interview BoomTown did last week with Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer and founder of Pandora Media, where I interviewed him at “The Future of Music” forum in Washington, D.C. The former musician has ridden all the various bumps the Internet radio station has endured since its founding in 2000. Now, with a stable and growing revenue stream turbocharged by a popular mobile app and about 50 million users, Westergren talks about what’s next for Pandora.

Indie Radio God Nic Harcourt Gets a New Gig: Picking Videos for "The Live Buzz"

Peter Kafka in Media on September 28, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

For a certain kind of music fan, Nic Harcourt is a rock star. But the former radio DJ hasn’t had a full-time job picking and playing music in two years. So here’s his new gig: Picking and playing music videos for a new site.

News Byte

RIM Wants Industry Talks With Indian Government on Encryption

Beth Callaghan in News on August 26, 2010 at 4:00 pm PT

Research in Motion, which faces a shutdown of its services in India on Tuesday unless it provides government access to its users’ emails, has offered to lead an industry forum that would involve other tech companies in an ongoing dialogue with the state over encryption and national security. A shutdown would affect about a million BlackBerry users in India, and could influence the outcome of similar struggles RIM currently faces in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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