Interviews

We recently got a chance to briefly sit down with Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who definitely ranks among the geekier and more sincere CEOs we’ve had the privilege to meet. We discussed the long-missing JavaFX Mobile platform Sun promised a while back, as well as Java on the iPhone, and doing battle with Microsoft as [...]

We got a few minutes to chat (once again) with Real’s Rob Glaser today, who was kind enough to answer a few lingering questions about Real’s freshly announced music alliance with MTV and Verizon called Rhapsody America.

On Urge and integrating with Rhapsody, “The Urge brand will be retired… but we wanted to be welcoming and [...]

Today’s interview is a first for Engadget in a couple ways: we’ve never talked with an executive whose company doesn’t actually make or sell something, nor have we talked with anyone whose technology is theoretically infeasible. Still, we’ve all had our chance to criticize Steorn for its scientifically heretical claim to the invention of a [...]

We got a rare chance to sit down and talk shop with recently-named Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. President Kaz Hirai, and his US successor, Jack Tretton. These two had a lot to say, and we were more than happy to let them talk about where the PS3’s going in terms of hardware, software, and services, [...]

For this week’s Engadget Inteview, veteran journalist J.D. Lasica spoke with Bluetooth SIG executive director Mike Foley from his headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., about wireless headphones, hands-free phone gabbing, and what kinds of Bluetooth-enabled gadgets we’ll be seeing in the years ahead. For those who aren’t familiar with Bluetooth, what is it and why should [...]

We got a precious few minutes to sit down and talk to the man himself. That’s right, we landed a real interview with Fake Steve Jobs. In it, “El Jobso” reminisces about his drug-addled youth, what he does to the traitorous wretches that leak Apple products before they’re launched, the questions they ask you when [...]

We interviewed David E. Weekly, founder of Coceve and creator of the super-handy IMSmarter.com. What is IMSmarter? David describes it as a “secretary that helps you out by sitting between you and the rest of the world, letting you know about things that are interesting and taking notes of your meetings so you can recall [...]

For this week’s Engadget Inteview veteran journalist J.D. Lasica spent a few minutes with Anthony Wood, founder and CEO of Roku, to discuss digital media, digital music, DRM wackiness, and Mona Lisa smiles.
For readers who aren’t familiar with Roku, what are you guys about?
We’ve been around since October 2002 and we’re based [...]

Flickr is quickly becoming one of the most popular
“moblog” and photo sharing site, is it the interface? The APIs? Caterina talks about this and more!
Name, rank, serial number…(who you are).
Caterina Fake, co-founder and jill of all trades. As you know, this being a small startup I do a lot of everything:
marketing, pixel pushing, strategy, [...]

Veteran journalist J.D. Lasica interviews Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennström about the future of voice communication, using Skype through wi-fi handhelds, and the coming death of the telecom dinosaurs:
Please give me a quick backgrounder on Skype.
We were founded on Aug. 29, 2003, and now have 70 employees, about half [...]