In the final segment of their joint interview, Bill and Steve field questions from the audience at D5.

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In Part 6 of 7, Steve and Bill reveal the greatest misunderstanding about their relationship, joke with Walt and Kara and receive a standing ovation from the crowd as they conclude their fireside chat.

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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs’ discussion with Walt and Kara turns to the entertainment industry, the transition facing Hollywood companies today and the future of computing interfaces.

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In Part 4 of 7, Gates and Jobs continue their discussion about the future of technology, covering such topics as mobile phones, flexible displays, Internet services and the nimbleness of large companies versus small start-ups.

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In part 3 of 7, Bill and Steve talk about their biggest regrets; what excites and surprises them in technology today; mobile devices; and what they feel computing will be like in five years.

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Continuing their discussion at D5, Steve and Bill talk about the 1997 agreement between Apple and Microsoft; whether they think their companies are rivals today; the “Get a Mac” commericals; and iPods, Zunes and music.

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In their rare joint appearance at All Things Digital 5, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates discuss their contributions to the technology industry, the qualities they most respect in one another, and former Apple CEO Gil Amelio’s seamanship.

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The video that played before Bill Gates and Steve Jobs came onstage at D5 for their joint interview with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.

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The great Silicon Valley soap opera has come full circle. Not since Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously interviewed Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as a possible suitor during the “Macintosh Dating Game” back in 1983 have the two men appeared in a joint bill. And at D5, the two shared a stage for the first time in more than 20 years for a historic discussion.

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Singer-songwriter Jill Sobule performs onstage at D5 in Carlsbad, Calif.

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Earlier this month, “Star Wars” was voted the most influential visual-effects film of all time by the Visual Effects Society. It’s a particularly apt time, then, to hear from the film’s creator and the visionary behind the Industrial Light and Magic visual-effects house, George Lucas. These days, Lucas is still pushing the envelope in [...]

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In a demo this afternoon, Walt and Kara got a tour of a hand-held microcomputer, the LiveScribe Smartpen. This is another in a string of attempts, Walt notes, to add a simple computer to a penlike device that records words and can pinpoint their location in the recording when the user taps the handwritten version [...]

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Years after leading America Online into one of the most disastrous mergers of the century with Time Warner, AOL founder Steve Case has reinvented himself, launching Revolution, a new venture he hopes will shake up the health-care and wellness industry.

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In addition to being the Hawaiian word for thank you, Mahalo may have also been the last published word of Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. But don’t tell that to Internet entrepreneur Jason Calacanis, who has given the name to his latest effort, a curated (he calls it “human-powered”) search service.
The humans who do [...]

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You know Web 2.0 has jumped the shark when a company that has built its fortunes peddling routers gratuitously doses its latest earnings call with Web 2.0 pixie dust. Which is what Cisco CEO John Chambers did at the company’s third-quarter earnings call. Is Chambers really serious when he bandies about Silicon Valley’s favorite buzzword? [...]

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