This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we talk about the UW football team’s use of high-tech cameras to gain a competitive edge; the Justice Department’s move to block the AT&T/T-Mobile merger; Amazon.com’s new Kindle feature for asking authors questions from inside books; and the second life for the HP TouchPad. Our guest… Read More…
It was an especially unusual August, and it wasn’t just because the down comforter never came off the bed or the fan didn’t make it out of storage. Nope, there was something else going on completely unrelated to the weather. The tech industry experienced what could only be described as some truly tectonic shifts. Typically,… Read More…
We talked about HP’s decision to discontinue its webOS devices, the prospects for Amazon.com taking on Apple’s iPad, Facebook’s new privacy controls, Scientific American naming Seattle the No. 1 tech city in the country, and this weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo — geez, we covered lots of stuff – during GeekWire’s periodic appearance on the Weekday program… Read More…
How do you drive interest in your consumer electronics gadget? Well, you discontinue it, of course. Engadget notes that HP’s heavily-discounted TouchPad — a tablet computer that’s being phased out — is now among the best selling consumer electronics devices on Amazon.com. nLight Corp., a profitable Vancouver, Washington maker of semiconductor laser technology used in… Read More…
The best insights, observations, comments, tweets and random zingers we heard this week. “I am last to speak at #is15. The trapeze artist had better not be RIGHT before me.” — tech journalist Glenn Fleishman, contemplating his lot in life before speaking at Ignite Seattle. (More on the event in our earlier post.) “Overnighting at #mindcamp. Amazed by… Read More…
I am huge fan of Downfall, a classic war film that depicts Adolf Hitler’s last days in Berlin. But even better than the film are the number of parodies that have arisen around the Oscar-nominated film. And here’s one that you’ve got to see. The fictional Hitler (played by Bruno Ganz in the 2004 German… Read More…
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we recap a wild week in the technology world — including Google’s plan to acquire Motorola, and HP’s plan to spin off its PC business — and try to figure out what it all means for the future of PCs and devices. We also hear from… Read More…
Hewlett-Packard is the largest PC maker in the world, significantly outpacing even longtime rival Dell these days. So it was more than a bit of a shocker today when the company announced plans to spin off or sell its personal computer business. By the same token, HP spent more than $1 billion to acquire Palm… Read More…
Bloomberg News caused a big stir in the tech world today with a report that Hewlett-Packard is looking to spin off its PC business to focus more on software and cloud services, in connection with a possible acquisition of software maker Autonomy. HP is the largest PC maker in the world, shipping more than 15 million… Read More…
Dell, HP, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and others have been sued by Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based company run by former Microsoft technology chief Nathan Myhrvold, as part of a broader patent dispute with two makers of common types of memory used in computers and gadgets. The lawsuit, filed yesterday in federal court in Seattle, targets Hynix… Read More…
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