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Each week, Rafe Needleman rounds up a group of CNET News and Reviews editors to discuss in detail the biggest tech issues of the week, and predict the outcomes of ongoing technology market battles. Visit the blog at CNET.com/Reporters-Roundtable-Podcast
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
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| 1 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Facebook IPO | All-star cast discusses Facebook IPO shortly after the opening bell. | 18 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Evernote CEO Phil Libin | On the heels of raising money at $1 billion valuation, we talk with the Evernote CEO about building durable companies and dealing with a bubble economy. | 7 5 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Reporter's Roundtable Ep. 122: Free gifts for your Facebook friends, with Wrapp | Swedish social gifting company strikes deals with U.S. brands to help you celebrate your friends by giving them gift cards preloaded with marketing dollars. | 30 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 121: Wavii founder on the future of news | Adrian Aoun, the founder of the news-reading and summarizing app Wavii, talks with Rafe Needleman about the genesis of his technology and how far it can go. | 19 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 120: Google Glasses | Google has announced that it working on Project Glass, an effort to create a glasses-based heads-up display for the real world. What's the technology? When will it be available? We discuss with our writer Martin LaMonica, and with the CEO of a company making augmented reality goggles that you can buy today. | 12 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 119: Google+ leaders talk about the redesign | In a special Roundtable, Google's Vic Gundotra, and Bradley Horowitz discuss how Google claims 170 million users for Google+, why the service was just redesigned, and their favorite features. | 11 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 118: The big mess at Yahoo | On the heels of filing a dangerous patent lawsuit against Facebook, Yahoo also just laid of 2,000 employees. What's up at Yahoo, and can it bounce back? We discuss with Charles Cooper of CNET and Kara Swisher of All Things D. | 6 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 117: Can you be forced to give up your Facebook password? | Is the private side of your social network really private? What do you do if an employer asks to see into your personal world? We discuss with Bob Sullivan, author of the "Red Tape Chronicles" for MSNBC. | 30 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 116: JOBS Act makes crowdfunding the law | How the JOBS Act will change the rules for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors, with perspectives from guests George Zachary, Chance Barnett, and Tim Rowe. | 23 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 115: New tools for Inventors | If you've got an idea for a product, there are new ways to bring it to market. Rafe Needleman talks with Yancey Strickler of Kickstarter and Jim Newton of TechShop about innovations in funding and prototyping. | 16 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 114: Apple TV is a bigger deal than you think | So Apple just released a "resolutionary" iPad. Big deal. The really interesting product here is the new Apple TV, which is at the forefront of Apple's push to control the living room. We discuss with CNET reviews editors John Falcone and Matthew Moskovciak. | 9 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 113: Couch Potato 2.0 | Not content to feed you just one screen of entertainment, content and app developers are working on apps that make your tablet or smartphone a companion screen to the main event. Join our discussion on the rise of the "Second Screen." | 2 3 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Mountain Lion and the evolution of operating systems | Apple has embarked on an ambitious plan to release a major OS X upgrade every year. What's it mean, and why? And what's missing from Mountain Lion, the upcoming update to the Mac OS? | 24 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 111: Lightsquared and the spectrum mess | How do you throw away $4 billion? Buy spectrum you can't use. That seems to be what Lightsquared did, once the FCC revoked a license that would have let the company build a new nationwide wireless broadband network. Today, Rafe discusses with CNET editors Roger Cheng and Maggie Reardon what happened here, why, and what it means for consumers. | 17 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 110: Failure is always an option | Rafe Needleman, with guests Owen Thomas and Brooke Hammerling, looks at how different tech companies have dealt with failures and errors: Apple, Google, Facebook, Airbnb, and, most recently, Path. How can you recover from a public drubbing? How do you prepare for one? | 10 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoReporters Roundtable: Ep. 109: What is Facebook going to do with all that money? | Facebook filed to go public this week. It plans to see $5 billion of stock. What will Facebook do with the money? Can it continue to hold off Google? Is mobile its next major battleground? This week on the Roundtable, Rafe discusses Facebook's future with Josh Constine from TechCrunch and Shervin Pishevar from Menlo Ventures. | 3 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoReporters Roundtable: Reporters' Roundtable: Why Klout matters | Rafe talks with one of Klout's early venture funders, Shervin Pishevar, and TechCrunch writer Josh Constine. | 3 2 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoReporters' Roundtable Ep. 108: Apple's China problem | iPhones, iPads, and most other small electronics are assembled in vast factories in China. Reports on working conditions at these plants are not favorable. Could Apple do more to improve conditions? Could the jobs be brought to the U.S. instead? And would consumers care either way? We discuss with New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg, and the author and performer of "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," Mike Daisey. | 27 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 19 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: NY Times responds to Apple memo | On Reporters' Roundtable hosted by CNET's Rafe Needleman, New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg responds to a memo to Apple employees from CEO Tim Cook regarding working conditions in Chinese factories that make Apple products. The memo came the same week Duhigg's co-written article, "In China, Human Costs are built into an iPad," was published in The New York Times. | 27 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 20 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 107: What SOPA hath wrought | The backlash against the SOPA and PIPA anti-copyright bills continues. Major sites took themselves offline. The U.S. government shut down MegaUpload. Anon launched a successful attack against government Web sites. All of these events are related, and the stories are still developing. That's what we're talking about today, with CNET experts Declan McCullagh, Greg Sandoval, and Elinor Mills. | 20 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 21 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 106: SOPA blacks out the Web | Today, several high-profile sites "blacked out" in protest of the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills. What effect are these actions having on the Web, and the legislation? We discuss with Declan McCullagh of CNET and Trevor Timm of the EFF. | 18 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 105: CES, where new technology fights for deals. | There's more happening at CES than just big companies launching giant new product lines. Each year, startups vie for attention from consumer electronics partners and from investors who attend the show. Discussing this topic with Rafe Needleman: CNET's Paul Sloan and VC Josh Stein from DFJ. | 13 1 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 23 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 104: Debating the CNET 100 | Fanboy fist-fight! CNET Reviews editor-in-chief Lindsey Turrentine and CNET executive editor John Falcone join Rafe in a debate over the best, worst, and most important tech products of 2011. | 16 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 103: The car as app platform | Forget tablets, forget smartphones. The real mobile platform that matters is the automobile. On this Roundtable, we discuss what's going into cars and how it's getting there, with CNET Car Tech co-host Brian Cooley and Ford product Manager Julius Marchwicki. | 9 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 102: Holiday tech buying update | We're in the middle of the holiday buying season right now, so it's a good time to talk about how the world has changed for gadget buyers--and sellers. Join us for a discussion with the New York Times' Claire Cain Miller and Decide.com CEO Mike Fridgen. | 2 12 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 101: The rise of the connected consumer | We are in the middle of a revolution in consumer commerce. We use our social networks to get advice from friends and mobile devices to scan prices at stores in real-time. How are retailers going to deal with the new consumer come Black Friday? Join Brian Solis, author of The End of Busienss as Usual, in conversation with Rafe Needleman | 18 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep 100: 11 predictions for 11/11/11 | Special guest Tom Merritt joins Rafe Needleman on the 100th episode of the Roundtable to argue over 11 tech predictions for the next 11 years. | 11 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 99: The RIAA defends SOPA in the fight over content rights | Is SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, going to kill the Internet? Or is it the law we need to keep content providers in business? We discuss the controversy with RIAA Senior Executive Vice President Mitch Glazier, and CNET commentator Larry Downes. | 4 11 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 98: Can Nokia come back from the dead? | Nokia once ruled the mobile phone business. But it has never made a successful smartphone for the U.S. market. Nokia just released two Lumia smartphones running the Windows Phone OS. Will they reverse Nokia's misfortune? Join Rafe Needleman's discussion with CNET experts Jessica Dolcourt, Jay Greene, and Roger Cheng. | 28 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 97: Frontiers in search | And you thought search was done. Startups and upstarts keep trying to chip away at Google. From Microsoft to MC Hammer, there are challengers coming from everywhere. Today we talk about them, with guests Paul Sloan and Harry McCracken of CNET News, and Jim Lanzone, president of CBS Interactive and former CEO of Ask.com | 21 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 31 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 95: Bring your own technology | On today's show: How to sneak personal technology into your workplace. Or, put more respectably, the "Consumerization of Inormation Technology." Our guests: Fritz Nelson, Editor-at-large for Byte, and Tom Gillis, VP at Cisco. | 14 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 32 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 95: Guy Kawasaki on what we learned from Steve Jobs | There are several life lessons in the way Steve Jobs started Apple, then left, came back, ran the company, launched products, and disrupted several industries. All of us in technology--or indeed in any business--can learn from them. | 7 10 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 33 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 94: Amazon Fires straight at Apple | We're in the middle of an exciting news cycle: Amazon is going after Apple's tablet business with its $199 Kindle Fire. And Apple is hosting a big iOS press announcement on October 4. How are the companies squaring off? Join Rafe and a panel of CNET experts to discuss. | 30 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 34 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 93: Netflix, Dish, and Facebook rewrite the video marketplace | It's been a big news week for video and movies on the Web. Netflix split apart, Dish announced Blockbuster-branded video services, and then Facebook introduced social video players. We discuss the changes with Ryan Lawler of GigaOm and Andrew Wallenstein of Variety. | 23 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 35 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 92: The quantified self and the healthy body | Two startups give you feedback on how you walk, move, stand, and sit to make you a more aware and healthier person. | 16 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 36 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 91: How the 9/11 attacks changed technology forever | MIT Technology Review editor and publisher Jason Pontin joins Rafe Needleman to discuss how the terrorist attacks ten years ago changed the direction of technology and policy development mostly for the better, but in some cases for the worse. | 9 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 37 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 90: PARC CEO on how tech innovation works | The CEO of PARC talks with Rafe Needleman about the history of the famous lab, how to encourage innovation in a country or a company, and what it's like to compete with Google for engineers. | 2 9 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 38 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 89: Apple after Jobs | We all knew this day was coming, but it was still a huge shock when Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs announced on Wednesday that he was resigning his role as CEO. Apple, to many people, is Steve Jobs. We're going to talk today about the future of Apple under its new CEO, Tim Cook. We have three great guests from CNET: Josh Lowensohn, Jay Greene, and Brian Cooley. This was a very lively discussion, don't miss it! | 26 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 39 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Ep. 88: Patent wars escalate | Google just acquired Motorola's mobile patents. HP just decided to give WebOS the heave-ho, putting its patents in play. Congress is debating fundamental rule changes in the patent system. So it's time to revisit the patent and invention discussion on the Roundtable. To do that, we bring back Nilay Patel, the lawyer-turned-tech journalist from Endgadget and This Is My Next. | 19 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 40 | VideoReporters' Roundtable: Happy 30th Birthday to the IBM PC | The Inventor of Control-Alt-Delete & IBM Engineer David Bradley joins Rafe Needleman on Reporters' Roundtable to discuss the history of the IBM PC celebrating it's 30th birthday. | 12 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 40 Episodes |






