Town Hall

President Obama’s LinkedIn Town Hall: The Other Silicon Valley Jobs Event

Kara Swisher in News on September 26, 2011 at 10:09 am PT

Here’s an idea to get more jobs for the citizens of the U.S.of A.: Fantastic high-speed wireless access!

October iPhone Event to Be Held on Apple Campus

John Paczkowski in Mobile on September 25, 2011 at 2:10 am PT

A break with history.

Twitter Gives Obama Town Hall a Real-Time Flavor

Liz Gannes in Social on July 6, 2011 at 4:37 pm PT

Though these presidential town hall meetings are never terrifically interactive or spontaneous, Jack Dorsey and the Twitter team did an admirable job of making today’s conversation with Barack Obama feel like it was coming together in real time.

Facebook Seeking Friends in Beltway

Elizabeth Williamson, Amy Schatz and Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 20, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

President Barack Obama will travel to Facebook Inc.’s Silicon Valley headquarters Wednesday to hold a “town hall” meeting on the economy with users of the social-networking site.

One More Thing: Apple’s New MacBook Air

Beth Callaghan in News on October 20, 2010 at 11:15 am PT

Steve Jobs’s “one more thing” today at Apple’s Town Hall event was the new MacBook Air, or, as he put it, “what would happen if a MacBook hooked up with an iPad.” The quick details: Complete unibody construction, all solid state storage, and there are two models, each with two configurations: an 11.6-inch model with either 64 gb or 128 gb of storage for $999 or $1199, respectively, and a 13.3-inch model with either 128 or 256 gb of storage for $1299 or $1599, respectively.

Apple to Host “Back to Mac” Special Event Next Week

John Paczkowski in News on October 13, 2010 at 8:25 am PT

Apple just announced another media event, this one scheduled for October 20–a week from today. It’s topic: The Mac and, judging from the invitation art, “Lion”–the next iteration of OS X.

Apple Announces April 8 iPhone OS Event

John Paczkowski in News on April 5, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

April is proving to be a big month for Apple. First the launch of the iPad and now, just two days later, the announcement of an invitation-only event to show off the next generation of the operating system that it will soon run, iPhone OS 4. The event is scheduled for April 8–three days from now–at Apple’s town hall.

Palm's Pre Inventory Glut

John Paczkowski in News on September 30, 2009 at 9:34 am PT

Discussing Palm’s first-quarter results earlier this month, the company’s leadership claimed that “the vast majority of new sales” for the quarter were generated by the Pre. Palm sold some 823,000 handsets during that period with sell-through of 810,000 units, so that’s an impressive feat. But only if the sales we’re talking about here were made to on-the-street consumers. And, according to Town Hall research analyst David Eller, it’s not entirely clear that they were.