This week on the Roundtable: The biggest tech stories of 2009! With my boss, CNET Editor in Chief Scott Ard, and Buzz Out Loud host (and my co-conspirator on Real Deal) Tom Merritt.
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Reporters' Roundtable #14: Biggest tech stories of the year
SHOW NOTES AND TALKING POINTS
Is this a year of recovery? Wasn't the 2008 meltdown in 08 the biggest factor in 2009?
Let's talk first about technological power shifts
- Google, Google - Chromes OS, Android
- Apple App store dominance
- Windows 7 didn't kill MS
- MS doesn't buy Yahoo
- Carriers losing control? Verizon/AT&T fight
- Smart phones becoming ubiquitous (what's it mean when everyone has a portable, connected device)
- A&TT/Apple fight?
- Emergence of streaming (Netflix, Blu-ray players etc.) and how its disrupting media
- Kindle and e-books in general, threat or savior to print media.
- Twitter/FB?
Business stories
- Oracle/Sun
- Comcast/NBC
Government
- FCC weights in on Net neutrality
- Role of EU fights
Sleeper stories:
- DNS security stories
What will be the big story of 2010??
- Mobile?
- Pent up demand of consumers?
WRAP
Thanks Scott and Tom. Thanks, Benito (producer)
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