Articles from 2011 – Page 96 of 107

Mozy executive Russ Stockdale on VMware deal: ‘I’d classify it as a transfer of talent’

Mozy has built a big business around online backups. But most people don’t realize that the company’s headquarters is located… Read More

The art of the name change: David Aronchick explains the switch from Entertonement to Hark

David Aronchick has one piece of advice for entrepreneurs when considering a new business moniker: “don’t name a company around… Read More

Smart-grid software company Calico Energy raises cash from Point B

Calico Energy Services, a Bellevue software company whose technologies are used to help residential and business customers reduce energy costs,… Read More

Why Nasdaq is giving Apple less weight, and Microsoft more

Nasdaq this morning sent a wave through the stock market with the announcement that that it will “rebalance” its closely… Read More

How to write on a Nordstrom window with Microsoft’s Kinect

Nordstrom’s flagship store in downtown Seattle is currently featuring a neat little technological trick, allowing passersby to write and doodle… Read More

ReliOn scores $6M, looks to become first profitable fuel cell maker

Fuel cell maker ReliOn has scored an additional $6 million in financing from existing investors, money that will be used… Read More

Ex-Expedia CEO Blachford joins Technology Crossover Ventures

Former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford has been named a venture partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital… Read More

PopCap to unleash ‘weirdness’ with 4th & Battery studio

PopCap Games sometimes takes months or years to develop its titles, a process that has paid off in spades with… Read More

Do a Startup, Are You Nuts?

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More

Nerd Notes: Volcanoes, sports, sneakers and moonbuggys

Sci-fi fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin feels cheated by the “Lost” finale. Lost co-creator Damon Lindeloff feels like starting a… Read More

Virtual reality visionary Jaron Lanier on his Microsoft gig: Kinect is ‘beautiful, exciting’

https://youtu.be/-Vc9GMGZurY A while back I got a chance to sit in on a session with Jaron Lanier, the guy credited… Read More

With a common corporate parent, VMware takes over Seattle back-up service Mozy

Now, here’s some complex corporate maneuvering for you. VMware announced today that it is gobbling up Mozy, the six-year-old Seattle… Read More

Windows Phone 7 update with no wait … if you dare

The first major update to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS, dubbed “NoDo,” has been a long wait, particularly for people… Read More

Sounders FC unveil iPhone app … if only it could score some goals

As many of you know, I am a huge supporter of the Seattle Sounders FC (despite our inability at the… Read More

Microsoft unveils new Xbox hardware … for game developers

Microsoft today announced a new piece of Xbox hardware that could make Xbox 360 games better, in the long… Read More

Nuance unplugs Jott: Voice-to-text service to end May 3rd

You won’t be able to Jott anymore. The mobile service, which allowed users to convert voice messages to text, will… Read More

How Windows Phone apps could run on Windows 8

A new leak gives the first real glimpse of what to expect in a special Windows 8 interface for tablets,… Read More

Paul Allen violates the rules of ‘Seattle Nice,’ and that’s not such a bad thing

Paul Allen’s raw retelling of the early days at Microsoft in his upcoming memoir, “Idea Man,” surprised some in the… Read More

Google bids $900M for Nortel patents, but Microsoft already has them in the bag

[Post updated at 1:45 p.m. with clarification of Microsoft’s rights to these patents under a previous licensing deal with Nortel.]… Read More

Report: Amazon.com is the best at ‘customer experience’

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos likes to preach the merits of customer service. And that near maniacal laser-focus has paid off.… Read More

Swype, Zulily, BuddyTV, others named finalists for Seattle 2.0 Awards

It’s that time of year when the Seattle startup community pats itself on the back. The Seattle 2.0 Awards are… Read More

Project Star Trek: Did Clearwire provide shoddy service to boost numbers?

Clearwire can’t seem to catch a break. The Kirkland mobile broadband company has compiled massive losses, churned through executives and,… Read More

Android and iPhone game development in a snap: That’s the promise of Zipline

What has Zipline Games co-founder Todd Hooper been building in the basement of Founder’s Co-op over the past few months?… Read More

Ad analytics startup Mpire changes gears (again) and raises cash

It seems that Mpire has had nearly as many lives as a cat. The company started in 2005 as a… Read More

India wins the Cricket World Cup, and 1,000 geeks in Redmond go wild

The citizens of Calcutta, Mumbai and Bangalore erupted in joy Saturday night as India defeated Sri Lanka in the Cricket… Read More

Google’s April Fool’s Day joke, Gmail Motion, comes to life via a Kinect hack

The April Fool’s Day joke from Google — Gmail Motion — may not be too far afield after all. Some… Read More

Microsoft’s Windows 8 recipe: Hint of Office, dash of Xbox, ounce of Windows Phone

Microsoft has already hinted that it wants to make Windows more like Xbox by supporting the Kinect sensor technology and… Read More

Nintendo: ‘We don’t want to be in the phone business’

Nintendo is a master at building portable gaming gadgets, as evidenced by the recent release of the company’s 3DS device.… Read More

‘Bill is the guy that made MS happen,’ and other top comments of the week

Paul Allen gets into some of the nitty-gritty details of the early days at Microsoft. Steve Ballmer receives a low… Read More

Is Helping Your Startup Fun?

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More