Articles from 2011 – Page 29 of 107

BlackBerry systems coming back, but can RIM recover?

Research in Motion, the company behind the BlackBerry mobile phones and messaging service, says this morning that its systems have… Read More

Microsoft signs Quanta deal, ninth Android patent pact in 18 months

Microsoft just announced another Android patent licensing deal, this one with Quanta Computer — saying that the agreement “provides broad… Read More

Clearwire boosts wholesale subscriber count as headwinds mount

Investors have been treating Clearwire as if it is pretty much dead. But the Kirkland broadband wireless company today preannounced… Read More

Pantech reaches Intellectual Ventures deal, escapes suit

Intellectual Ventures this morning announced a patent licensing deal with Pantech, a large mobile handset maker in Korea, and said… Read More

MetalStorm game takes flight on iOS 5, integrates wirelessly with HDTV (Video)

One of the new features of Apple’s iOS 5 mobile operating system is something called AirPlay Mirroring. Essentially, it allows… Read More

Venture capital on pace for biggest year since dot-com era

Venture capitalists are pumping massive amounts of capital into startup companies, fueled by the emergence of big shifts in mobile,… Read More

Exclusive: Hands-on with Amazon Locker, now working

We’ve had fun tracking the appearance of Amazon Lockers around the Seattle region over the past few weeks, and this week… Read More

11 productivity tools that your startup ought to use

If you’ve ever been part of a startup, then you know how much hard work it involves. And you usually… Read More

Afternoon Radar: BlackBerry outage, iOS 5, Xbox Live

A roundup of stories making headlines across the tech industry today … BlackBerry users in the U.S. and Canada… Read More

A police blotter for the Facebook generation? Arrestly notifies when friends end up in the county jail

Seattle developer Matt Steckler never thought he’d one day use his technical talents to compile arrest records on friends, co-workers… Read More

Romney to talk trade at Microsoft

Mitt Romney, currently considered the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, will make an appearance at Microsoft tomorrow afternoon as… Read More

5th Cell’s innovative Scribblenauts arrives on iPhone, iPad

Scribblenauts, a game from Bellevue-based developer 5th Cell, blew the minds of video-game nerds around the world when it was… Read More

Google holds steady with 65 percent of U.S. search queries

Google continues to hold a dominant lead in the Internet search business, with two reports out this week highlighting the… Read More

Ultrasound on the go? Smartphone-based imaging system released by Mobisante

Ultrasound systems can be bulky and expensive. But a Redmond company by the name of Mobisante is looking to transform… Read More

Microsoft to offer Hadoop for Windows Server and Azure

In a surprise show of support for a popular open-source technology, Microsoft says it will offer Hadoop-based distributions for Windows… Read More

Holy cow! Apptio on pace to top $50 million in bookings this year

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta has been talking for some time now about building the next big enterprise software company in the… Read More

Heads up: We’re @geekwire now

One of the minor challenges we encountered when we started GeekWire was that the Twitter handle @geekwire wasn’t available. (It… Read More

Spotlight: Startup vet Nadkarni unwraps shopping app Zoomingo

Shirish Nadkarni’s past entrepreneurial pursuits have included mobile email service TeamOn and online language community Livemocha. Now, the Seattle area… Read More

Microsoft buys Twisted Pixel

Microsoft is now the proud owner of an undead marionette cowboy. If you haven’t played the crazy (and oddly fun) Xbox… Read More

Inrix CEO: Seattle tech scene gets solid A (with one exception)

Inrix CEO Bryan Mistele knows just how hard it is to raise venture capital. Before the company grew to more… Read More

Zaarly founder wins over TechNW panel with free beer

Here’s one of the more unique promotional gimmicks we’ve seen in some time. Prior to the start of the e-commerce… Read More

Q&A: Physicist Lisa Randall on space, time and how science is even better than fiction

Theoretical physicist Lisa Randall, a Harvard University professor, is on a quest to figure out how the universe works, at… Read More

Sujal Patel’s call to action for the Seattle tech industry

There’s nothing quite like a comeback story. And there’s perhaps no better example of one in Seattle’s tech industry than… Read More

Valve has high hopes for its ‘non-sucky educational game’

Valve, the Bellevue company behind the Steam video-game platform and hit games such as Portal and Half-Life, is developing a… Read More

What geek guys missed at GeekGirlCon

Update, 10/14: A grand total of 1,896 people attended GeekGirlCon, organizers said Friday. The figure exceeded organizers’ expectations “by a… Read More

TechNW: Can Windows Phone become a legitimate No. 3?

Microsoft’s Windows Phone has been a recurring theme at the Washington Technology Industry Association’s TechNW conference this morning in Seattle.… Read More

The first ever GeekWire Meetup: Oct. 27 with Zillow’s Rich Barton

When you cover the technology industry every day like we do, it can be a bit hard to break away… Read More

What do M&A executives at Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce really want?

Reporting from TechNW: If you’re looking to sell your startup company to Microsoft, Facebook, Google or Salesforce.com, you might be… Read More

Microsoft: ‘Zero-day’ threats are less than 1% of exploits

Zero-day security threats can scare the bejeebers out of the tech industry, when hackers and malware are able to target… Read More

Box raises $81M as CEO looks to ‘out-innovate’ Microsoft

Box, the online cloud storage company that was started in Seattle in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith, just… Read More