Articles from 2011 – Page 89 of 107

AWS outage: Mum’s the tweet

For many companies these days, the first instinct in a crisis is to turn to Twitter to get the message… Read More

How one Seattle company is looking to capitalize on The Royal Wedding

A few days ago, someone asked me if GeekWire had any plans for covering the royal wedding. At the time,… Read More

Practical Nerd: A Norwescon vision of tomorrow’s tech

I have seen the future. And it wears goggles and Victorian clothing. At least, that’s the immediate impression you might… Read More

How to become Apple’s iPhone ‘App of the Week’

That right there is the type of publicity a startup can’t buy — a huge graphic currently promoting Seattle’s Zapd… Read More

Apple Trivia: Win tickets to see ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs’

We’ve long been fans of actor Mike Daisey, dating back to his hilarious (and scathing) monologue: “21 Dog Years: Doing… Read More

Ex-Microsoft and Yahoo research guru Gary Flake starts stealthy Clipboard

Gary Flake, a former technical fellow at Microsoft who up until last fall ran the company’s Live Labs research group,… Read More

Wii sequel in 2012: Can Nintendo top PS3, Xbox 360?

In the process of announcing its latest financial results this morning, Nintendo confirmed that it plans to release the successor… Read More

Clearwire restores service in Seattle after outage

It’s been a tough few days for Seattle area high-tech companies. First, Amazon.com’s EC2 service went down, causing alarm among… Read More

RealNetworks plans new ‘Rinse’ clean-up tool for iTunes

RealNetworks has developed a new program called Rinse for cleaning up and organizing Apple iTunes libraries on Windows PCs and… Read More

Are Wal-Mart and Amazon on a collision course?

Two developments this past week signal that Wal-Mart is getting more serious about the online world, and could very well… Read More

‘Amazon should be the one apologizing,’ and other comments of the week

BigDoor founder Keith Smith touched a nerve after writing a guest post for GeekWire this past week explaining his frustrations… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Podcast: iPhone tracking, Kindle lending, and a tech news extravaganza

This week’s GeekWire Podcast is a little different — a technology reporters’ roundtable featuring special guests Tricia Duryee of AllThingsD… Read More

Paul Allen, like you’ve never heard him before

It was a privilege, and a ton of fun, to get to interview Paul Allen on stage about his new… Read More

How Spencer Rascoff’s Tweets tossed us off the Zillow IPO trail

Team GeekWire loves nothing more than a good news tip. So, when a reader passed on a hot lead last… Read More

Nerd Notes: Easter bunnies will fail, whales will sing and AT&T will survive

Whale songs hit the charts. Turns out whales aren’t just singing to get laid. AT&T is not going to crumble,… Read More

Is the new tech bubble just R&D 2.0?

Guest Commentary: We’re very clearly in a new tech bubble now. Valuations, funding rounds, recruitment incentives are already remarkably similar… Read More

Startup execs vow to boost hiring, if they can find the tech talent

We’ve been writing a lot about the tech talent crunch in Seattle, noting companies such as Tableau Software, ExtraHop Networks… Read More

Eternal optimists, AT&T boosts wireless capacity for crowds at Safeco Field

Hey, you gotta build for the team you want, not the one you got, right? AT&T today announced that it… Read More

Zillow, Impinj and why Seattle needs a new crop of IPOs

It has been a big week in Seattle tech circles as two companies (Zillow.com and Impinj) filed for initial public… Read More

Top 10 Hottest Apps Not Atop Google’s Android Market

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about how apps are ranked in the iTunes App Store and the Android… Read More

Windows 7 hits 350 million: Putting the data in perspective

Microsoft this morning announced that Windows 7 has reached 350 million licenses sold in 18 months on the market. It’s… Read More

SnuggleCloud hopes to connect couples trapped in long distance relationships

Seattle entrepreneur Emily Marshall can speak to the pain of long distance relationships. Her fiancé lives more than 2,000 miles… Read More

Day 2: Amazon Web Services cites progress on cloud glitches, not everyone seeing it

As some sites continue to show signs of Amazon.com’s cloud computing glitches, the company updated its public Amazon Web Services… Read More

Microsoft taps Frank Holland to lead global ad sales unit

Microsoft has been undergoing a series of changes in the executive ranks in recent weeks. And that trend continued today… Read More

Amazon.com’s real problem isn’t the outage, it’s the communication

Guest Commentary: Like many companies running on Amazon’s Web Services, BigDoor has been affected by the AWS outage today. And… Read More

AT&T’s big T-Mobile filing: It’s (mostly) all about the network

AT&T today delivered a present to wireless geeks, in the form of a 381-page filing with the Federal Communications Commission… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: UW’s Ed Lazowska on the engineering talent crunch

Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Ed Lazowska, the longtime computer science professor who holds the… Read More

Impinj files for $100 million IPO

For the second time this week, a Seattle technology company has filed to go public. This time it is Impinj,… Read More

Earthquake-proof desk designed to withstand one million pounds of debris

The next time the “big one” hits, wouldn’t it be nice if there was a steel-plated desk (complete with oxygen… Read More

Avalara scores $14 million to automate sales tax collection, sets goal for $100 million in revenue

Collecting sales tax can be a real pain for merchants. But Avalara wants to make that process, well, a little… Read More