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Articles from 2011

A crowd full of black turtlenecks? Yep, it’s a Steve Jobs lookalike contest

How’s this for a reality distortion field? Prior to last night’s performance of Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: Paul Allen on technology, his life, Bill Gates and everything else

We’re pleased to present this special mid-week edition of the GeekWire Podcast, featuring audio highlights from my interview Friday evening… Read More

Geek of the Week: Kate Matsudaira, vice president of engineering, SEOmoz

Anyone who thinks technical chops and fashion sense are incompatible needs to meet our latest Geek of the Week, Kate… Read More

Bill Gates pledges $20M to support game-based learning

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $20 million to support new “game-based learning applications” in math, English and… Read More

Apple to iPhone customers: We’re not stalking you, but we do plan to fix a location ‘bug’

Apple is finally addressing criticism of location-based tracking technologies in the iPhone, a response that comes a week after the… Read More

Barnes & Noble: Microsoft wanted ‘shockingly high’ fees for Android in Nook

[Updated with Microsoft’s statement.] Barnes & Noble is rejecting Microsoft’s claims that the use of Android by its Nook e-reader… Read More

IPO fever: Monthly filings surge to four-year high

We’ve seen an uptick in IPO activity in recent weeks, with two Seattle companies (Zillow.com and Impinj) deciding to take… Read More

Hey, Seattle: Think your iPhone is fast? T-Mobile offers $1,000 if it can beat Galaxy S 4G

How’s this for some swagger? Bellevue-based T-Mobile USA plans to offer a $1,000 prize to anyone in the Seattle area… Read More

Amazon.com: SEC launches inquiry into Texas tax dustup

The Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting an inquiry into Amazon.com’s dispute with the state of Texas over a $269… Read More

Jeff Bezos to shareholders: ‘Invention is in our DNA’

It’s been a tough few days for Amazon.com. The Seattle online retailer took a PR beating after a massive outage… Read More

SignalSet lands $6M, looks to quickly switch mobile devices between GSM and CDMA networks

No matter what carrier you choose, wireless coverage oftentimes is spotty. But imagine if you could overlay the coverage of… Read More

Microsoft brings Clippy back … for Office training game

Hi, it looks like you’re playing a game! Would you like some help? OK, so thankfully that’s not what happens… Read More

PlayStation Network outage actually massive theft of personal info

Sony this afternoon disclosed that an “unauthorized person” hacked into its PlayStation Network online gaming system and obtained personal information… Read More

Geek humor: How Adolf Hitler would have reacted to the Amazon Web Services outage

It was just a matter of time. Amazon.com’s recent Web services outage has been memorialized in a “Downfall” parody on… Read More

Amazon.com profits tank as company adds whopping 4,200 employees in one quarter

Amazon.com just reported quarterly profits significantly below Wall Street’s expectations, despite revenues that exceeded them, and the reason is spelled… Read More

RealNetworks plans new digital photo and video utilities, too

Turns out RealNetworks isn’t just getting into the business of cleaning up iTunes music libraries. The digital media pioneer, trying… Read More

Court grapples with ‘cast of thousands’ in Paul Allen suit vs. Google, Apple and others

With more than a dozen lawyers looking on — representing Google, Apple, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook and other Internet titans —… Read More

Madrona incubates new mobile analytics startup Sewichi

Smartphones are now outselling personal computers. And that little factoid from IDC is creating an interesting opportunity to measure, track… Read More

Incoming UW president arrives with tech transfer chops

Could newly-appointed University of Washington president Michael Young spark a wave of innovation and commercialization at the state’s largest research… Read More

Mobile gaming company looks to capitalize on WikiLeaks

Two buddies who worked as interns for the National Security Agency in high school are now turning their attention to… Read More

Study: Microsoft’s Windows Phone losing developer interest at slower rate than BlackBerry

Life is tough when you’re trying to come from behind against Android and iPhone in the mobile market, which means… Read More

SETI off the hook: What if we miss the call from the aliens?

The Paul Allen-backed effort to communicate with alien life has hit a serious financial snag. The SETI Institute, which operates… Read More

Scrubly looks to clean up ‘messy’ contact lists and address books

Bob Thordarson manually tried to update his online contacts list on several occasions, but each time the Seattle entrepreneur seemed… Read More

Ex-Yahoo execs create ChoozOn to sift through the daily deal clutter

Groupon, Living Social and hundreds of other daily deal sites are great … when they offer something of interest. But,… Read More

Facebook Deals takes on Groupon and Living Social, and Tippr is there for the ride

Facebook launched its much-anticipated attack on Groupon and Living Social tonight, unveiling the Facebook Deals service in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas,… Read More

Nerd Notes: Bill & Ted 3, Yoda bat and the best of Sakura-Con

The Harvard Business Review tried to have a very serious discussion with Ben Huh about cat pictures, misspellings and Fail… Read More

Amazon.com tries to toss Apple ‘app store’ trademark suit, cites Steve Jobs in its own defense

Amazon.com today responded in court to Apple’s lawsuit over the name of its Android Appstore — calling the iPhone maker’s… Read More

T-Mobile’s Bobsled voice service for Facebook slides off course

Less than a week after its debut, T-Mobile’s free Facebook voice calling service, Bobsled, has apparently veered off course. The… Read More

MOD Systems ordered to pay back rent, company plans move

MOD Systems will be forced out of its downtown Seattle office space at 1301 Second Avenue, the latest setback for… Read More

Photo Gallery: 50 Amazing Characters from Sakura-Con

As I strolled through Sakura-Con at the Convention Center in Seattle on Saturday I was suddenly transformed into another dimension… Read More

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