City of Seattle ties for first in web, social media savvy study A study from the University of Illinois at Chicago is giving top marks to the City of Seattle for its… Read More
Will a $199 Google tablet hurt or help the Kindle Fire? Next to politics, perhaps no industry loves speculation more than tech. We may couch it as “analysis” or — if… Read More
WiMax dealt another blow: new Sprint phones to be LTE-only Sprint is putting another nail in its WiMax coffin by confirming at an Orlando mobile carrier conference that it will… Read More
Best Buy’s 50 closing big-box stores may be Amazon’s victims There’s a lot of speculation about who or what is to blame for Best Buy’s decision to shutter 50 of… Read More
Weekend project: How to build a Star Wars TIE fighter If you have a spare 30 hours and $300 this weekend, you may want to try a do-it-yourself project that’s… Read More
Seattle schools to offer digital animation, game courses Budding digital animators and game programmers will soon have another option for learning those skills — through Seattle Public Schools’… Read More
Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos plans historic deep-sea Apollo 11 engine recovery A massive bit of space history that inspired an entire generation of geeks has been found by Jeff Bezos —… Read More
Seattle ranks in top 5 for broadband download speed Feeling a bit sluggish, Seattle? Perhaps a move to Austin, San Francisco or Boston will perk you up. Pando Networks,… Read More
Urbanspoon updates iPhone app; adds filters, partners Urbanspoon is, if you’ll forgive the pun, shaking up its signature iPhone app with a completely new interface and by… Read More
Raveld reveals Klout-like score for cloud spending on AWS It may start getting easier to make optimal Amazon Web Services purchasing decisions. Or, at least, less expensive. Raveld, a… Read More
Kindle Touch to launch in Europe April 27 Amazon’s Kindle Touch will finally make it across the pond to Europe, five months after its U.S. launch — but… Read More
T-Mobile sued by Israeli firm over near field technology Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA is facing a lawsuit over its near field communication (NFC) technology. Israel’s On Track Innovations (OTI),… Read More
Amazon adds DRM to ‘DRM-free’ Harry Potter eBooks Those expecting to unwind with all seven Harry Potter volumes in glorious, DRM-unencumbered pixel are likely in for a disappointment,… Read More
Microsoft embraces, extends open source mapping File this under “the enemy of my enemy is my friend:” Microsoft is reportedly lending “big support and big dollars”… Read More
Microsoft’s goal to ‘disrupt,’ not just take down, Zeus botnet It’s a seemingly unending battle. Botnets get put up by bad guys, taken down by good guys and are replaced… Read More
No Comcast bandwidth cap for on-demand Xbox video Comcast is releasing a few more details on its promised Xfinity TV for Xbox 360 service with what might be… Read More
HasOffers sees opportunity in Apple’s UDID blocking Apple reportedly has begun rejecting new iOS apps that access unique device identifiers, leading to developer concern — and potential… Read More
Playwright Mike Daisey: ‘I would like to apologize’ Ten days after being put in an unflattering spotlight after public radio’s This American Life retracted its story about him,… Read More
7 steps to raise a geek child It’s inevitable. New babies are coming into the world. I began to notice this when former colleagues were no longer… Read More
Inside Alaska Airlines’ new Boeing Sky Interior For 17 years, I have qualified to be a sardine. That is to say that — since some time in… Read More
How car dealers embrace, and erode, the web We may finally be seeing how business, when faced with a technological threat, adapts. Not by changing practices. But by… Read More
Microsoft and education: lead or cheerlead? In the Seattle area there is a powerhouse co-founded by Bill Gates, dedicated to using advances in technology to change… Read More
When eBooks attack, mass paperbacks die The mass market paperback is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet. Ailing for months, its demise is now all… Read More
Practical Nerd: Seattle vs. Amsterdam, a tale of two cities and their technology Amsterdam has a lot that can appeal to a Seattleite. Both cities are of similar size, value walkability and bicycles,… Read More
Practical Nerd: Microsoft toys with itself, again A favorite tech industry truism is that Microsoft got where it is today by copying others. Now, it’s finally copying… Read More
Practical Nerd: Survival tips for Startup Weekend EDU I was a first-time mentor at a Startup Weekend recently and, appropriate to my day job, it was focused on… Read More
Practical Nerd: When Amazon can’t be trusted Recently, I bought a new Android phone. It didn’t come with everything I wanted, so I turned to my default… Read More
Practical Nerd: Irresistible startups, immovable education I’ve advised a number of startups over the years and have been directly part of at least two. I discovered… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Radio: Apple, Facebook and more, with Frank Catalano, Chris Pirillo This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we put Steve Jobs’ resignation as Apple CEO into perspective and… Read More
Practical Nerd: The hidden price of “free” In tech, nothing quite equals the siren lure of “free.” I still recall a friend of mine from Microsoft being… Read More
