The city of Seattle’s overhauled website, seattle.gov, was named the top city government web portal in the country today in the Center for Digital Government’s annual Best of the Web awards.… Read More
Fans of Chris Pirillo’s Gnomedex conference will be happy to hear that it’s coming back for at least one more year, as a companion event to the new Seattle Interactive… Read More
[Update: Well, that was interesting while it lasted. Minutes after we posted the first version of this story, a Boeing representative responded to our earlier inquiry to say that the… Read More
I’m a big fan of on-demand audio via smartphone — particularly from local radio stations. Here’s why: Frequently I’ll catch the end of a segment or show in my car… Read More
Seattle’s Common Craft video firm has built a business out of simple, explanatory online videos made of paper cutouts — most famously the “Twitter in Plain English” video that was… Read More
Monday afternoon I made the trek up to Paine Field, caught my first glimpse of a Boeing 787 on the tarmac, and found myself in the middle of a half-day… Read More
John and I had fun reconnecting with familiar faces and making a ton of new friends at gdgt live in Seattle last night. It was a great crowd, and a… Read More
Smartphone users traveling on Alaska Airlines will soon have an added benefit. During the months of August and September, any passenger with a Wi-Fi enabled smartphone will be able to… Read More
Last week GeekWire invited members of the Seattle tech community to make a pitch to win a sponsor table at the gdgt live event next Friday, Aug. 5, at the… Read More
The Seattle Police Department is catching a ton of grief for transforming its Twitter feed from a selective news channel into an overactive police scanner — flooding its followers for… Read More
Guest Commentary: I have a ton of work to do today. But I’m spending most of my day on the golf course instead. Today is the annual Washington Technology Industry… Read More
An $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a new Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering on the University of Washington campus — a place where… Read More
The “Scene It?” game franchise is getting broader and more timely today with a new trivia quiz game that works as an online service across iPhone, Android, Facebook and web.… Read More
Netflix caused an uproar among its users today with a change in its subscription plans that boils down to a not-insignificant price hike for customers who want unlimited online streaming and… Read More
Here’s an innovation that might just make Dick Cheney smile. Researchers from the University of Washington and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are testing a wireless power transmission system that can… Read More
With his over-the-top cookbook, “Modernist Cuisine” — weighing in at 40 pounds, six volumes, 2,438 pages and a $625 list price — Nathan Myhrvold has produced an epic tribute to… Read More
As Americans celebrate their revolutionary anniversary today, other countries, especially in the Middle East, are still in the midst of the promising throes of their own revolutionary moments. The recent… Read More
The Industrial Designers Society of America handed out its annual IDEA product design awards this week, and one of the projects that was recognized came from an unlikely place: Seattle Children’s… Read More
GeekWire is excited to partner with Seattle Business Magazine for the first annual IT Awards, a celebration of the leading developers, engineers, executives, innovators and backroom geeks who just make… Read More
A sports collectible company called Memory Lane Inc. of Tustin, Calif., has filed suit against Seattle-based Classmates.com and its parent company, United Online Inc., over the rebranding of the Classmates… Read More
At a splashy launch event in Seattle tonight, chip-maker AMD introduced its new Accelerated Processing Units, or APUs, and brought out one of its most loyal customers to help make… Read More
Columnist Dan Savage and coffee giant Starbucks are being recognized by the University of Washington’s Master of Communication in Digital Media program for their work on Seattle-based digital initiatives making… Read More
OK, we admit it, we tuned in to see the latest in the Anthony Weiner debacle today, as the Congressman admitted to sending lewd photographs and messages to women via… Read More
Alaska Airlines continues to go high-tech. The Seattle airline is expanding its inflight Wi-Fi system, saying today that 92 percent of its fleet will be equipped by the end of… Read More
Seattle’s digerati turned out in full force at The Bagley and Virginia Wright Gallery Sunday night to hobnob with Tina Brown, the legendary former editor of Vanity Fair and The… Read More
Call it a classic David vs. Goliath story. Comcast found itself in the middle of a PR quagmire this week after Seattle non-profit Reel Grrls disclosed that the cable giant… Read More
Don’t be concerned if you see this gigantic seaborne platform, pictured above, motoring into Puget Sound sometime today. The aliens haven’t arrived. But if they ever do, this thing will… Read More
How did you find out President Obama was holding a surprise news conference, or that it was to announce Osama bin Laden’s death? There’s a decent chance it wasn’t from… Read More
A high-tech hack has resulted in grades being altered at Seattle area high schools, according to a report by KIRO 7. Seattle Public Schools issued a memo today indicating that… Read More
The solution to Pioneer Square’s Internet connectivity problems may be found in a cavernous, mid-19th century underworld. The City of Seattle is currently engaged in a plan to bring high-speed… Read More
