Tech meets art meets music at SXSW

The South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, brings together bands, bohemians, geeks and more.

Photos: SXSW wraps it up

Bands from such exotic places as Australia, Japan and Lawrence, Kan., entertained music fans, while companies promoted their products and services such as electronic promo kits and online band management.
March 19, 2007

Digital-music payment models

blog A panel named Reinventing Payment Models for Digital Music sounds pretty boring, doesn't it? The audience would beg to differ.
March 16, 2007

Are convergence devices the wave of the future?

blog Do consumers want a complete multimedia device--camera, music player, video player, gaming device and cell phone? Not necessarily.
March 15, 2007

Photos: Slacker Portable Player

cnet reviews Get an up-close look at the first player to work with Slacker's new radio service.
March 13, 2007

For Will Wright, story time is all the time

In South by Southwest keynote, legendary game designer explains his high-velocity approach to telling stories and shows off Spore.
Images: Will Wright talks 'Spore' at SWSX
March 13, 2007

Photos: Live from SXSW

South by Southwest, Austin's annual music-tech-film-art event, continues to morph and grow.
March 14, 2007

Mainstream media mainly absent at SXSWi

blog Leading tech bloggers are here in force at South by Southwest Interactive, but where's the mainstream media?
March 14, 2007

Why isn't SXSW Wi-Fi perfect?

blog At an event so obviously centered around the latest and greatest Web technology, there should be spotless wireless Internet, reporter says.
March 14, 2007

A new wavelength for satellite radio

Former MusicMatch and Rio execs try to make radio personal and portable with their debut of a start-up service called Slacker.
Photos: Slacker's ambitious music project
March 13, 2007

Blogging's not the enemy, says Dan Rather

newsmaker The seasoned broadcast journalist talks to CNET News.com about old media, new media and the future of journalism in the digital age.
March 13, 2007

Rather: Journalism has 'lost its guts'

In South by Southwest speech, the renowned broadcaster says his profession is in a "perilous state," despite Internet's ability to illuminate.
March 12, 2007

Photos: Scenes from South by Southwest

From electric-spewing gadgets to panels and Legos, the multimedia confab has plenty to hold visitors' attention.
March 12, 2007

SXSW Web award winners: Strange choices

blog People's choice award goes to SocialSaga, which has barely made a blip on the Web so far. Best of show winner is OwnYourC, a Flash-heavy site for teens who need to make choices.
March 12, 2007

Do-it-yourself hacking, open-source style

Creative and kooky do-it-yourself hardware hacks get a serious open-source twist at this year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival.
March 12, 2007

Video: Veronica does SXSW, Day 1

CNET's Veronica Belmont takes you through her first hours (and parties) at South by Southwest, including a talk with Biz Stone of Twitter.com.
March 13, 2007

Robots, lightsabers and underwear

blog To a newbie, the SXSW bar scene is an eye-opener. Usually when a person walks into a bar with a light saber, someone loses an arm. Not here.
March 10, 2007

Wanted: The best of SXSW

special coverage CNET is covering the entire multimedia extravaganza. Check here for all the latest music, blogs, videos, podcasts and more from SXSW 2007.
March 10, 2007

Waste not, want not

blog The amount and size of the swag bags for South by Southwest boggle the mind and do nothing but harm the environment.
March 10, 2007

The singing tesla coils

blog Small, side-by-side versions of the electricity-spewing devices work in tandem, producing music.
March 10, 2007

Where have all the Macs gone?

blog SXSW 2007 pressroom coordinators apparently decide that cool is out, replacing MacBook Pros with Dell laptops.
March 10, 2007

Richard Linklater rocks SXSW

blog Filmmaker Richard Linklater--of Slacker, Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset and School of Rock fame--discusses the magic and the money of moviemaking.
March 10, 2007

To Twitter or Dodgeball at SXSW

blog One question heard more than any other at South by Southwest Interactive: "Are you on Twitter?"
March 10, 2007

Austin, beware: The SXSW geeks are back in town

The South by Southwest Interactive confab brings together bloggers, podcasters, and others for five days of shenanigans, partying, and networking.
Video: CNET takes a road trip
March 9, 2007

Highlights of SXSW 2006

Photos: Roomba does Frogger rumba

It's what happens when tech geeks at Austin's SXSW conference play real-life Frogger with a Roomba vacuum cleaner.
March 15, 2006

Sci-fi author laments state of world

In his annual talk closing out the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, Bruce Sterling says the world is in crazy shape.
Photo: Sterling speaks at SXSW
March 14, 2006

To her fans, Dooce is wild

Not content with her official South by Southwest keynote, the famous blogger suggested a casual meet-up with fans. They came in droves.
March 13, 2006