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Windows Phone ‘Mango’ update stuffed full of features (List)

Microsoft is packing a ton of stuff into the next Windows Phone version, in areas including business communications, search, games,… Read More

Who needs Skype? Eight top apps for chatting, messaging and calling on iPhone and Android

With the announced mega-acquisition of Skype by Microsoft, the world of VoIP, group messaging, and chat apps has been brought… Read More

Apple ‘app store’ trademark challenged in Europe by Microsoft, HTC, Nokia, Sony Ericsson

Microsoft and three of its key mobile partners — HTC, Nokia and Sony Ericsson — filed a challenge in Europe… Read More

Job tips: Expert advice in mobile development, cloud computing, business intelligence

What can people do to better position themselves for emerging jobs in technology? That was a core question earlier this… Read More

T-Mobile’s Galaxy S 4G outpaces iPhone, but you knew that already (Winners)

Last week we held a contest for GeekWire’s followers on Facebook, in conjunction with T-Mobile’s Speed Challenge this past weekend… Read More

Microsoft Bing gets big beachhead on BlackBerry

Most surreal moment of the day so far in the tech world: Steve Ballmer making a surprise appearance at the… Read More

GeekWire contest: Win a Galaxy S 4G phone from T-Mobile USA

Update, May 5: Results and winners. We have a fun contest today for GeekWire followers on Facebook, with a chance… Read More

HotPads

Time for A New Apartment? How Your Phone Can Help

It’s springtime and, in addition to tulips, baseball, and short sleeves, that means apartment-hunting time for many people. Traditionally, that… Read More

Kyle of South Park surprised by iPhone location tracking

You know you’ve got a PR situation on your hands when the South Park creators get involved. Apple is no… Read More

Unpleasant Horse arrives on the iPhone … ‘uncensored’

4th & Battery’s first mobile game, Unpleasant Horse, is now available in Apple’s app store, and it arrives “totally uncensored,”… Read More

Nine-year-old boy gets his wish, creates an iPhone game

Most nine-year-old boys dream of meeting sports stars like Ichiro, Matt Hasselbeck or Kasey Keller. Not Owain Weinert. Weinert simply… 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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft, Nokia make it official: Turning point for Windows Phone?

Sealing a deal they announced in February, Microsoft and Nokia have finalized their mobile partnership ahead of schedule, the companies… Read More

Apple has your permission to do whatever it wants with that location data it’s tracking

Two researchers, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, are making headlines across the web today with news of their discovery that… Read More

As iPhone battle mounts, AT&T holds its ground against Verizon

Analysts, bloggers and other tech prognosticators (ourselves included) thought AT&T’s loss of exclusive iPhone rights might serve as a death… Read More

Another Microsoft app for Apple iOS: Photosynth panorama stitching

Microsoft has made plenty of apps for Apple’s iOS in the past, but lately it’s becoming almost prolific. Fresh off… Read More

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Music apps: Seven of the best for Android and iPhone

Last week we took a look at some great baseball apps for the Android platform. This week we’re going to… Read More

Speed test: Windows Phone IE9 vs. iPhone 4 and Android

At Microsoft’s  MIX conference in Las Vegas this morning, the company announced a series of enhancements for the next version… Read More

Sneak peek: Is this Microsoft’s Windows 8 App Store?

Microsoft’s early planning documents for Windows 8, the next version of the PC operating system, suggested that the company was… Read More

Hands-on with the Sounders FC iPhone app at Qwest Field: We’d call it a draw

The Seattle Sounders finally secured a victory at Qwest Field on Saturday, led by goalkeeper Kasey Keller who repelled several… Read More

Will Windows Phone surpass the iPhone by 2015? Gartner thinks so

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Microsoft is way behind in mobile. But the company, which is… Read More

Nerd Notes: Shakespeare’s Terminator 2, Microscopic Microchip Art, and tweeting for beer at the ballpark

Kevin Zelco (@MsBeerVendor) is taking beer orders (and tips) at Safeco Field via tweets.  A @MrUrinal would round this venture out… 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

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

RogueSheep CEO leaves the flock

Chris Parrish has left the CEO post at RogueSheep, the Seattle mobile application development shop best known for its work… Read More

How a modest bag clip was reborn as an iPhone ‘Kickstand’

DL Byron, the Seattle entrepreneur behind such ventures as Clip-n-Seal and Bike Hugger, was struck with the idea for his… Read More

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