Why this mobile gaming vet says HTML5 is not the future

David Bluhm, President and CEO of Z2Live, speaks at the GeekWire Summit. (© Karen Ducey 2012)

The promise of HTML5 has captivated mobile developers for a long time now. But the debate still rages: Should devs spend their time and energy tinkering with HTML5 or moving forward with native apps? Depending upon who you ask that question, you’ll likely get a very different answer.  Mobile gaming veteran David Bluhm – whose Seattle… Read More…

Q&A: Hulu CTO Richard Tom on the future of television

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It’s rather stunning to think that Hulu was just a germ of an idea five years ago. Obviously, the entertainment industry has experienced a tectonic shift of epic proportions in that time. Backed by the likes of NBC Universal, News Corporation and The Walt Disney Company, Hulu has very quickly become one of the most… Read More…

Startup insights and inspiration from Ray Ozzie

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[Editor's Note: Journalist Robert McClure, co-founder of InvestigateWest, attended the GeekWire Summit yesterday and shared this report about Ray Ozzie's comments on the startup environment.] As someone who came out of legacy media and is really proud that the startup I co-founded is still standing nearly three years later, I couldn’t help but feel admiration for Ray… Read More…

Video: Rock star Dave Dederer at the GeekWire Summit

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At the conclusion of yesterday’s GeekWire Summit, we were honored to be joined by one of our favorite Seattle-based musicians, Dave Dederer, a founding member of the alt-rock band Presidents of the United States of America. Dederer, who got into the tech business with startup Melodeo and now works at HP, talked about the evolution… Read More…

Mobile vets: Windows Phone is great, but it has a long way to go to catch Apple and Android

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We brought together some of the top thinkers in the mobile industry Wednesday afternoon for the GeekWire Summit in Seattle. And while much of the chatter on the panel had to do with the newly-released iPad and the dominance of Android, the panelists nearly all agreed that Microsoft finally has developed a mobile operating system… Read More…

T-Mobile executive: Key to fixing industry is removing device subsidies

Cole Brodman, CMO of T-Mobile, speaks at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle (Karen Ducey Photography)

As mobile devices become more powerful, prices continue to fall. And while consumers now have more computing power in the palm of their hands than ever before, T-Mobile Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman said that the way carriers subsidize devices is hurting the industry. “It actually distorts what devices actually cost and it causes OEMs,… Read More…

Q&A: Ray Ozzie on startups, Microsoft, and what he’s dreaming up next

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[Updated with video above] Our opening conversation at the GeekWire Summit featured Ray Ozzie, the online collaboration pioneer and former Microsoft chief software architect — his first detailed interview since he returned to the startup world. It was a deep dive and a broad look across the modern tech industry, from the mind of a guy who… Read More…

GeekWire Summit: How to stay innovative in a world of technological change

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You only get to celebrate your first birthday once, and we partied in style on Wednesday as we hosted more than 500 of our friends at the first-ever GeekWire Summit & Anniversary in downtown Seattle. It was a great day for team GeekWire, starting out with an amazing fireside chat with legendary software developer and… Read More…

Live from the GeekWire Summit

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[The program will start around 1:30 p.m.] We’ve lined up some great speakers this afternoon for the GeekWire Summit in Seattle — including conversations with online collaboration pioneer Ray Ozzie and Hulu technology chief Richard Tom, plus panels featuring executives and engineers from Facebook, T-Mobile USA, Rhapsody, Swype, Z2Live, the University of Washington and more…. Read More…

Infographic: Seattle Geeks vs. Silicon Valley Geeks

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We’re getting ready to kick off the big GeekWire Summit this afternoon — marking GeekWire’s first anniversary by bringing together tech leaders from around the region and the country for a conversation about the future of technology and innovation in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. As a lighthearted way of commemorating the occasion, we’ve partnered… Read More…