Too much tablet? Apple, Microsoft at risk of overdose The changes in Apple’s new Mac OS X Lion, released Wednesday, start with the way people get the updated operating… Read More
Microsoft drops out of the Hulu bidding, opening door for Amazon? Microsoft has reportedly dropped out of the bidding for Hulu, the popular online video service owned by Fox, Disney, NBC… Read More
Apple shares surge five percent after huge quarter: Company more than doubles profit, sells 20M iPhones Shares of Apple jumped more than five percent in after-hours trading today after the maker of the iPhone and iPad reported… Read More
Apple, Microsoft and the divergence of the personal computer market Apple is set to report earnings Tuesday afternoon, amid expectations of a blowout quarter. While much of the focus will… Read More
Go to college, buy a Windows PC and get a free Xbox 360? Amazon.com isn’t the only tech giant wooing college students this summer. Microsoft too is offering a special deal, giving away… Read More
Tech Moves: Ex-Microsoft GM joins Motricity; Medio’s Lanphear lands at Livemocha; and more We’ve been tracking a number of key departures, appointments and new hires in the Pacific Northwest tech industry in recent… Read More
Report: Traffic has declined on the 520 bridge despite Microsoft’s employment boom It is about that time of day when thousands of geeks hop in their cars and make the commute over… Read More
UW researcher Shwetak Patel chosen as Microsoft Research Faculty fellow Since 2005, Microsoft has picked leading university researchers to participate in its Microsoft Research Faculty program — drawing on the… Read More
Helping kids learn via games: Microsoft donates $15 million to new education effort Kids love computer games. But they don’t always love cracking text books in the classroom. A new effort, supported by… Read More
Microsoft offers $250,000 bounty for information on Rustock ‘botnet’ Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit helped knock out one of the world’s most notorious spam purveyors back in March, but the company… Read More
Windows Phone 7 customers love their phones (even more than Android customers do) Sales of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 have been disappointing, with IDC recently reporting that its market share has dipped to… Read More
U.S. Army tests Android, iPhone and Windows Phone 7 The U.S. Army is nearing the conclusion of a six-week test of more than 300 smartphones and tablet computers, analyzing… Read More
Is Microsoft about to cut off Twitter search results in Bing? Twitter may be left out in the cold when it comes to its integration with two of the biggest search… Read More
Apple hits record high, now valued at $110 billion more than Microsoft It was just 14 months ago that Apple passed Microsoft in market value to claim the title of biggest publicly-traded… Read More
Domain purchase fuels speculation of Microsoft-Sony partnership Earlier today, we told you about Microsoft’s leak of the Web site Socl.com, which caused all sorts of chatter about… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Netflix, Microsoft, EA, and Seattle vs. Portland in tech … and soccer Special bonus this week: An early edition of the GeekWire radio show/podcast, including our take on the Netflix price hike;… Read More
Did Microsoft just accidentally leak its social search site? Earlier this week, Fusible.com uncovered a Microsoft splash page at Socl.com which appeared to be part of a larger social… Read More
Xbox 360 still tromping all over the U.S. console market June was a down month for the U.S. video-game industry overall, but not for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 –which turned in… Read More
Geek of the Week: Jacquelyn Krones, Bing researcher Our latest Geek of the Week, Jacquelyn Krones, is a true research geek — the type of person who loves… Read More
Car safety via the cloud: Microsoft names winners in Imagine Cup contest Microsoft last night named the winners of its annual Imagine Cup student technology competition, held this year in New York… Read More
Microsoft vs. everybody else: The quotable Kevin Turner Microsoft’s chief operating officer, Kevin Turner, was in rare form Wednesday at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles… Read More
WSJ: Amazon plans Android tablet, touch-screen Kindle Amazon has been rumored for months to be working on its own multipurpose tablet computer, but this report by the… Read More
Microsoft plans ‘up to 75 more stores’ over next 2 to 3 years Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles is primarily a strategy update and pep rally for the armies of companies… Read More
Microsoft sued over Windows Phone ads by maker of ‘novelty cellular abuse aids’ Over the years, Microsoft has been subject to plenty of claims that it copies other companies, but this one is… Read More
Citrix buys Cloud.com, challenges Amazon and Microsoft’s Azure Citrix Systems announced today that it is acquiring Cloud.com, raising the competitive bar on other cloud infrastructure services such as… Read More
Microsoft’s ‘coherent’ UI for PCs, phones, everything else Microsoft’s default Windows 8 interface, unveiled last month, was clearly modeled in part after the Xbox Live and Windows Phone… Read More
Microsoft: Windows 7 hits 400 million licenses sold At its Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles this morning, Microsoft updated its Windows 7 sales figures — saying that… Read More
Fighter jet maker Dassault using Microsoft Surface 2.0 The new version of the Microsoft Surface tabletop computer made an unexpected appearance at the recent Paris Air Show, as… Read More
Comments of the Week: Nintendo is the Apple of video games It was a big week for tech news, with Facebook rolling out its online video chat service with Skype and… Read More
Nerd Notes: Walking with Zuck, connected states, and a note to the future … from 1973 The legends of tech companies are shaped by stories of their weirdest early traditions. (Think Bill Gates having Burgermaster on speed dial.)… Read More
