T-Mobile USA remains the only major U.S. wireless carrier that doesn’t sell the iPhone, but that isn’t stopping the company from encouraging the use of the Apple device on its… Read More
News, notes and other interesting stuff on a drizzly Seattle weekend … The idea was “to figure out how to make a living off the trees without cutting them down,”… Read More
Amazon.com’s fourth-quarter financial report on Tuesday afternoon will show how the company performed in the critical holiday shopping season and shed new light on the reception for Amazon’s revamped Kindle… Read More
For decades, people have been crowding their friends into photobooths for snapshots, but the team at the Digital Kitchen digital agency and production company in Seattle has put a new… Read More
The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we recap the gigantic quarter posted by Apple, hear Bill Gates reflect on his final meeting with Steve Jobs, talk about… Read More
Updated below with solution and winners. We’re taking a break from our regular Name That Tech Tune challenge this week to present a special puzzle created by Roy Leban, the… Read More
Where do they come up with some of this stuff? A new infographic out from MBAOnline.com attempts to put Apple’s recent mammoth quarter — you know the one where the… Read More
I just got the following email. Subject: Small taxi company looking to expand Hello, I run a small taxi company outside of Boston Massachusetts. My community has been targeted for… Read More
Apptio continues to expand its executive bench, adding Dione Hedgpeth as vice president of customer success. In the role, Hedgpeth will oversee the professional services and customer support teams at the… Read More
Microsoft is already expanding its Kinect controller beyond the Xbox 360 to to Windows through the release of a commercial software development kit and a special version of the Kinect… Read More
Our new Geek of the Week, John SanGiovanni, is a veteran of the Seattle tech community with a unique view on the mobile industry as the co-founder and vice president… Read More
Facebook is reportedly planning to file for its much-awaited initial public offering, with The Wall Street Journal reporting today that the filing could happen as early as next Wednesday. The… Read More
We spend most of our days chasing down and reporting stories, but as regular readers know, we think it’s important to pause sometimes and share the latest details about GeekWire,… Read More
In case you need a friendly reminder, The Boston Consulting Group just came out with projections for how the Internet is transforming the way we conduct commerce, communicate and, basically,… Read More
Does your iPhone battery life get you down? Don’t worry. Two enterprising Seattle geeks believe they’ve solved that ongoing frustration with the SolMate, a innovative iPhone case whose razor-thin solar… Read More
Maybe Bill Gates needs to burnish his legacy a bit with the kids. A survey released this week asked 1,010 young adults between the ages of 16 to 25 to… Read More
Bloomberg Businessweek’s cover story this week drills into Amazon’s effort to upend the book industry by moving into the publishing business. The piece by Brad Stone tells the story of Larry… Read More
Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet — especially when it comes to reviews. The New York Times reports this week that Amazon.com recently removed an online merchant from… Read More
We’re still waiting for that official Google+ app for Windows Phone, but the Google Sync team just released some updates that will be welcomed by people using Google services on the… Read More
Our guest last weekend on the GeekWire podcast was Charles Brennick, the founder and director of InterConnection. The nonprofit, located in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, refurbishes donated PCs and distributes them around the… Read More
Starbucks just turned in a record quarter, posting $3.4 billion in revenue and the highest quarterly earnings in the company’s history. And how did the ever-expanding coffee company do that… Read More
OneEnergy Renewables, a Seattle startup that utilizes funds from its carbon offset and Renewable Energy Certificates program to bankroll new clean tech projects, has raised $1.3 million in funding from… Read More
I spent 13 years of my life in the Pacific Northwest living on the Eastside. I worked at Microsoft. Then, I did my first startup in Redmond. After that, most… Read More
Mario has been in plenty of jams in his day, but never before quite like this. Nintendo, which was already projecting the first annual loss in its storied history, said… Read More
Facebook unites hundreds of millions of people each day, but lurking in the shadows are some bad actors who treat the platform as the Wild, Wild West. Washington Attorney General… Read More
Facebook and Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna today filed lawsuits against Adscend Media, an ad network that allegedly is engaged in a deceptive practice which has come to be… Read More
In an opinion piece for Bloomberg this week, former Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Nathan Myhrvold lamented the demise of the physical newspaper and wondered if the solution might be in… Read More
Newly minted RealNetworks CEO Thomas Nielsen has pragmatic outlook, a sharp sense of humor and a ton of energy, as evidenced by the fact that he sealed one of the… Read More
With key partnerships in place with the likes of Dell Computer and T-Mobile, Seattle startup Cozi has been adding roughly 20,000 new family members per day. “Things are literally on… Read More