turning to political strife in the ukraine. cyber reports driven by mobile and holiday data continues to trickle in. an upgrade in acquisition and reports in china mobile all amounting to a rise in apple shares. and shipments expected to fall by double digits this year, the most severe contraction on record. and some food for thought as news from yum brands and krispy disappoint. comscore says shoppers have already spent about $20 billion online this year, up 3%. ibm also saying some pretty eye popping figures saying both mobile traffic and mobile sales came in at more than 40% higher from a year ago. the data just continues to add up regarding the strn of mobien mobile, jim. i reiterate this is an apple holiday season. don t want to get too focused on apple. that s the metaphor. seems like people want to buy phones and buy tablets. the pc numbers are dreadful. on the hewlett packard conference call, they know they got to ramp up tablet. they know it but they re m
author of big, hot, cheap and right, and what america can learn from the strange genius of texas. [inaudible conversations] good morning. i m glen, the directer of the school of journalism at the university of texas at austin. i welcome you. there s two superb authors here to morning to talk about the state of the union where we went wrong. we have 45 minutes, but could spend 45 hours on this. we better get rolling. i ll introduce the writers, ask questions, and i turn it over to you. i want to remind you when the session ends, two authors go to the signing tents, and there s a place to buy copies of the books and take them to the tent and have them signed. follow us out when we leave. to the left, george packer, staff writer for the new yorker magazine, author of asass sin s gate, named one of the ten best books of the year by the new york times, written two novels and two nonfiction books, a play off broadway, and lives this brooklyn, new york, the new book called # th
texas literary outlaws. bill is a clinical professor of journalism at the university of texas of boston. he has written biographies including one of george w. bush and one of molly ivins. so i just wanted to start, i have read a couple of your recent interviews last week, bill and when you were on npr you describe how in the early 60 s dallas had become one of the most singular cities on the planet earth. i was just wondering if you could start i explaining what you meant by that? sure. i think in the annals of american history and i m a little biased to speak in such broad terms as we wrote a book about dallas called dallas 1963 but in the years prior to the assassination president kennedy, it seemed like there was no other place like that city certainly in america. but we had were a handful of people, people who lived above the cloud over a very popular people who work in forming the confederacy really have anti-kennedy ferber that had pushed the thinking there in some wa
would meet the authors of dallas in 1963 step two. steve s a curator at texas state university. he s the author several other books including the literary outlaws. those on a professor of journalism at the university of texas at austin. i ve read a couple recent interviews. when you are in and pr can you describe in the early 60s dallas could become the most singular city on planet earth. i was wondering if you could start by explaining what he meant by that. sure. i think i m a little biased to speak in such broad terms as he wrote a book about dallas called a substitute. in the years prior to the assassination, it seemed like there is no other place like that cd, certainly in america. but we had better wear a handful of people who lived above the cloud and who are forming a confederacy really is anti-kennedy fervor. another french. they are tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people who leave their loved president kennedy or the minimum respected his off
methodist university. it s about an hour. [applause] thank you very much for that opening and welcome to all of you. we are looking forward to spending the next hour with you here. i thought i would start by expanding just a little bit on the introductions of our two distinguished panelists here. and then we will move the conversation through some areas of specific topics and then we will open it up to questions. i think you are given little blue cards as you came into the room. as you think of questions please write them down pass them to abandon the end and some folks will come by and pick them up and bring them up here and we will reserve the last portion of the meeting for some questions. so, let me start by telling just a little bit more about alfredo corchado. there aresome things you are do you know about him that he was born in mexico where his umbilical cord is still buried. he is the oldest of nine and moved as a young child to the united states with his family, f