Articles from 2011 – Page 7 of 107

Steve Jobs biography is Amazon’s best-selling book of 2011

Amazon.com is out this morning with the list of its top 10 best-selling books of 2011, and the Steve Jobs… Read More

Doctors and lawyers get gamified on Avvo, but will they play along?

It’s the hottest thing on Foursquare and FarmVille. Now, Avvo — the online Q&A site for medical and legal advice… Read More

Nissan and Microsoft partner on CRM and cloud computing

Microsoft and Nissan announced a partnership this morning, but not to put the Redmond company’s technology in Nissan vehicles. The… Read More

Amazon plans Kindle Fire update amid user complaints

Amazon.com is planning a software update within the next two weeks for its new Kindle Fire tablet, aiming to address… Read More

Q&A: Charles Simonyi on the magic of space and the ‘coziness’ of the trip home

Seattle’s Museum of Flight this week dedicated its new Charles Simonyi Space Gallery, named after the former Microsoft engineer and… Read More

Microsoft sells record 1.7M Xbox 360s in U.S. in November

Microsoft’s Xbox 360 registered another month atop the U.S. console market in November, posting record sales as the peak holiday… Read More

Rich venture capitalist Nick Hanauer sounds off (again) on why his taxes need to be raised

Seattle venture capitalist Nick Hanauer was one of the most vocal supporters last year of Initiative 1098, a measure that… Read More

Redfin CTO Michael Young departs

Redfin’s top technologist is saying goodbye to the online real estate brokerage after five years on the job. Chief Technology… Read More

Startup Spotlight: CrowdControl looks to manage ‘big data’

Tweets. Blog comments. Facebook likes. There’s no shortage of information flowing these days. CrowdControl wants to help businesses qualify this… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Amazon Price Check, Twitter revamp, and guest John Vechey, PopCap co-founder

On this week’s GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about the controversy over Amazon’s new Price Check app, the… Read More

Name that Tech Tune for a chance at a PopCap prize package

Updated below with answer and winner. This week’s Name That Tech Tune challenge is a fun one, and we have… Read More

Poll: What do you think of Twitter’s new look?

We’re pretty heavy Twitter users around the GeekWire offices, so when the company rolled out a new redesign yesterday we… Read More

Why Facebook’s privacy settlement may not be a done deal

Guest Commentary: “Facebook,” observes Seattle lawyer Venkat Balasubramani, writing about that company’s proposed settlement with the FTC, “is like the… Read More

DOJ wants delay of AT&T case

U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle said today she is considering a request by the DOJ to dismiss or postpone… Read More

GeekWire Gala: Video and photos from the big night

Thanks to all of you who came out last night for the first-ever GeekWire Gala. We had a great time… Read More

Lockerz continues acquisition spree, buys travel site Off & Away

In what could best be described as a “talent acquisition,” Seattle startup Off & Away has been purchased by fast-growing… Read More

Apple following the lead of Microsoft Kinect? It’s only natural

Microsoft may have some catching up to do with Apple in the area of speech interfaces and intelligent assistants on… Read More

GeekWire Gala: Darth Vader, tech legends and more fun from the photo booth

Who knew Lord Vader could be so much fun? Team GeekWire had a blast celebrating with more than 500 of… Read More

Ask Andru: Apple iMessage Follow-Up

The first ever Ask Andru column featured a question about Apple’s iMessage, a proprietary method the company uses to allow… Read More

What NOT to get a geek: 8 WTF items in SkyMall magazine

To turn “Would I buy that?” to “Who would buy that?”, flip through SkyMall magazine. The 21-year-old catalog has taunted… Read More

Bill Gates plotting a Microsoft comeback? Extremely doubtful

[Update: In comments to AllThingsD and CNet News, a spokesman for Gates says the Microsoft chairman is not considering coming back full-time to… Read More

Shares of Coinstar soar on news that its RedBox DVD business will ally with Verizon

Shares of Coinstar gained more than seven percent today after news emerged that the Bellevue company’s Redbox DVD movie rental… Read More

Congratulations, Seattle: You’re getting a space toilet

It just kept getting better and better at Seattle’s Museum of Flight today. First former, Microsoft engineer Charles Simonyi announced… Read More

Google+ Handbook: 63 resources for entrepreneurs

Just when you thought you had Facebook and Twitter nailed, along comes Google+. This new social site took the world… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Road trip leads to disaster recovery startup Doyenz

You’ve got a lot of time to think when traveling by RV from South Carolina to Washington state — a… Read More

Seattle’s Museum of Flight getting a Soyuz spacecraft, courtesy Charles Simonyi

Seattle’s Museum of Flight lost out in the competition to exhibit a Space Shuttle orbiter, but it turns out it… Read More

List: The 25 people who did big stuff this year in Seattle tech and beyond

After considerable discussion, careful deliberation and more than a few debates at the neighborhood bar, the GeekWire team has finished… Read More

GeekWire Gala: What to know if you’re going to our big bash

The sold-out GeekWire Gala is tonight! For the over 500 of you who signed up, we’ve decked the Great Hall (at… Read More

Nintendo: Super Mario creator Miyamoto is not retiring

Was something lost in translation? Wired yesterday reported that legendary Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto — the creator of Super Mario… Read More

Amazon creates $6M annual fund for indie Kindle authors, trying to boost book lending

Amazon.com this morning made a new move to increase the number of digital titles available to readers through its Kindle… Read More