Macworld Hosts Macworld Live! A Live Webcast Of News, Analysis And Product Announcements At Macworld Expo In New York, July 8-10
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 7, 1998–Mac Publishing, L.L.C., publisher of Macworld and MacWEEK magazines, will again host Macworld Live! providing attendees and cyberspace visitors with continuous coverage of the news, product announcements and events on the show floor of Macworld Expo at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York, July 8-10.
Macworld Live!, a radio-themed Webcast of a series of live interviews hosted from the Mac Publishing booth (booth No. 1220) in a studio audience setting, will be simultaneously broadcast over Broadcast.com, the largest broadcast network on the Internet, from the Macworld Web site. Each interview will be viewed not only by Macworld Expo attendees in the fifty-seat Macworld Live! theater, but will also be broadcast live over the Web by Broadcast.com's network of over 20,000 simultaneous feeds. In addition, the interviews will be archived and made available on the Macworld Web site for those who can't hear them live.
Each interview will feature a prominent individual from the Macintosh community paired with a Macworld or MacWEEK editor, and hosted by Rik Myslewski, Macworld contributing editor and principal and founder of Smartpeople.net, a technology testing and consulting group. Email questions will be solicited from the online "listening" audience as well as from the live studio audience.
Scheduled interviews include: Avie Tevanian, Jr. Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Apple Computer; Jon Rubenstein, Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, Apple Computer; Tom Boger, iMac Product Line Manager, Apple Computer; Ben Waldman, General Manager, Macintosh Product Unit, Microsoft; and popular IDG Books authors, David Pogue, Bob Levitus and Lon Poole, as well as surprise guests from Apple Masters, an ensemble of Mac aficionado celebrities who include the likes of Gregory Hines and Richard Dreyfuss, among others.
A complete schedule of interviews, dates and times is attached or can be accessed through www.macworld.zdnet.com.
Mac Publishing, L.L.C. is the joint publishing venture between Ziff-Davis Publishing Company and International Data Group, Inc. Broadcast.com, the largest broadcast network on the Internet, webcasts live and on-demand audio and video content including radio and television programming, the play-by-play of sporting events, as well as live concerts, conferences, speeches and other special events to more than 300,000 visitors daily.
Macworld Live!
Wednesday, July 8
10:30 Keynote response
Andrew Gore (Editor in Chief, Macworld)
David Morgenstern (Editor, eMediaWeekly)
Matthew Rothenberg (Director of Online Edit, MacWEEK.com)
11:30 Showcase Sweepstakes
11:45 Meet the Author: Macworld Mac OS 8 Bible, Lon Poole
12:30 Ask the Experts: Mac OS
Ken Bereskin (Director of OS Technologies, Worldwide Product Marketing; Apple Computer)
Jeff Pittlekau (Lab Director, Macworld)
Lon Poole (Author, Macworld Mac OS Bible; IDG Books)
1:15 Executive Briefing: Apple Today and Tomorrow
Avadis "Avie" Tevanian, Jr., Ph.D. (Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Apple Computer)
Jon Rubenstein (Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, Apple Computer) interviewed by Andrew Gore
(Editor in Chief, Macworld)
2:00 Showcase Sweepstakes
2:15 Under the Hood: Epson Stylus Pro 5000
Mark Rodogna (Epson America) interviewed by Rick LePage (Publisher and Editor in Chief,
eMediaWeekly)
3:00 The iMac Track: iNtroducing the iMac
Tom Boger (iMac Product Line Manager, Apple Computer) interviewed by Allyson Bates (Associate Editor, Macworld)
3:45 Showcase Sweepstakes
4:00 Apple Masters
Surprise guests!
5:00 Macworld Best-of-Show Awards
Andrew Gore (Editor in Chief, Macworld)
Stephen Beale (Senior Editor/News, Macworld)
5:45 Showcase Sweepstakes
Thursday, July 9
10:15 Under the Hood: Vpower G3 CPU accelerator cards
Timothy Cave (Vimage) interviewed by Henry Bortman (Contributing Editor, Macworld)
11:00 Under the Hood: Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 900u
Karl Seppala (Mitsubishi) interviewed by Brooke C. Wheeler (Associate Editor, Macworld)
11:30 Showcase Sweepstakes
11:45 Meet the Author: Macworld Mac Secrets, 4th Edition, David Pogue
12:30 Ask the Experts: Mac hardware
Linda McNulty (Product Line Manager, Apple Desktops; Apple Computer)
Jeff Pittlekau (Lab Director, Macworld)