Articles from 2011 – Page 66 of 107

Practical Nerd: A plea for independence from bad accessory support

Editor’s Note: “Practical Nerd” columnist Frank Catalano spent three hours this Independence Day weekend struggling under the oppression of one… Read More

Microsoft Bing aims for bigger role in China with Baidu deal

Microsoft today confirmed an expanded partnership with China’s largest search engine, Baidu, to provide English search results to Baidu users… Read More

Watch Abe Lincoln’s face turned into a 3-D talking head

Two former game developers at Valve Software have released a new iOS application called Morfo 3d Face Booth, which allows… Read More

Amazon buys Book Depository, UK’s top indie online bookseller

Amazon.com this morning announced a deal to buy The Book Depository online bookseller, based in the UK. Although the companies… Read More

Seattle claims zombie world record from New Jersey

The sports world has L.A. vs. New York, but in the realm of the undead, the epic cross-country battle of… Read More

A guide to why Amazon is losing the tax battle

Guest commentary: You may be right Jeff Bezos, but no one sympathizes. Yes, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Google+ vs. Facebook, Ballmer sounds off, and new stuff in Internet search

On this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, we analyze Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s booming response to the question of… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: How Penny Arcade is building its business — and how it isn’t

Our guest this past week on the GeekWire podcast/radio show was Robert Khoo, the president of Penny Arcade — the… Read More

The future of health care, as imagined by a tech design firm

The Industrial Designers Society of America handed out its annual IDEA product design awards this week, and one of the projects… Read More

Mobile Web vs. Native Apps

One of the big debates in the development world right now is whether mobile phone users will access games, books,… Read More

Windows Phone loads up on apps, still waiting on users

Good news and still-not-very-good news for Microsoft’s Windows Phone today … Good: The Windows Phone Marketplace now boasts more than… Read More

Report: Microsoft in the mix as Hulu explores possible sale

Microsoft would no doubt have the money to buy Hulu, the popular online television and movie service, but would it… Read More

Facebook-dependent Zynga files for $1 billion IPO

Zynga, the maker of FarmVille, CityVille and Words With Friends, filed for an initial public offering today that could add… Read More

Microsoft, Apple, others beat Google with $4.5B bid for giant Nortel patent trove

A consortium that includes Microsoft, Apple and Sony bid a whopping $4.5 billion in cash to win more than 6,000… Read More

Intellectual Ventures floats idea for hiding phone calls — inspired by Tiger Woods?

In a newly surfaced patent application, a group of inventors affiliated with former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures… Read More

Puzzle technology startup Puzzazz raises $400k in funding from industry vets

Puzzazz, the Seattle startup founded by puzzle creator and entrepreneur Roy Leban, has raised its first outside funding — about… Read More

Geek of the Week: Jim Demonakos, Emerald City Comicon, Kirby Krackle

It’s never too early to mark your calendar for Emerald City Comicon, coming up in late March/early April 2012 —… Read More

Microsoft closing down Hohm energy management service

Attention, startups: The home-energy management market just got a lot less competitive — for anyone who can figure out a… Read More

Off & Away unfurls daily deal service for hotel rooms

Off & Away has quietly rolled out a new private sale service that allows its users to sign up for… Read More

Microsoft doesn’t need to replace Ballmer as much as it needs to replace Gates

Commentary: With his booming voice and boundless optimism, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the technology industry’s version of a head… Read More

Amazon cans affiliate program in California after Gov. inks tax law

Amazon.com and other online retailers must collect sales tax on purchases that their California customers make in the state as… Read More

Ballmer: Microsoft profits climb, despite still losing ‘a few billion’ on Bing

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s positive comments about the company’s financial outlook during his Seattle Rotary Club appearance yesterday appear to… Read More

The Google+ rollout on Android and iPhone, compared

Guest Commentary: Since last night I’ve been trying the new Google+ social networking service on both an Android phone and… Read More

Barack Obama becomes the proud owner of a new Blue Nile championship ring

Barack Obama has some new bling, courtesy of the Seattle Storm and Seattle online jewelry retailer Blue Nile. In a… Read More

Amazon Web Services cuts prices on Data Transfer, CloudFront

Amazon Web Services suffered a massive outage back in April, one that caused all sorts of havoc developers. So, here’s… Read More

Facebook’s Zuckerberg: TV, books, movies next in line for social disruption

Editor’s note: Peter Boctor was part of a crowd of Seattle software developers who attended Mark Zuckerberg’s talk in Seattle… Read More

Steve Ballmer on bringing the Sonics back to Seattle: It’s a real estate problem

In a high-energy talk at the Seattle Rotary Club Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer covered everything from Windows 8 to Kinect… Read More

Likewise sells key product lines, switches focus to storage software

Likewise Software, a Bellevue-based open source software company backed by Ignition, Intel and Trinity Ventures, has sold off its Likewise… Read More

Bungie Aerospace revealed: ‘Rocket fuel’ for indie games

Bungie, the Bellevue-based video-game company known for the blockbuster Halo franchise, is finally going public with details of its “Bungie… Read More