Survey: City of Seattle wants to know your tech habits to ‘bridge digital divide’

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The City of Seattle is conducting a survey to get a better grip on how the Emerald City uses Internet and how connected people are to government. Running until April 19, Seattleites can take the survey online, which asks all kinds of questions about what types of technology you use, Internet and social media use,… Read More…

Welcome to Seattle, Bertha: World’s largest tunnel boring machine arrives in Emerald City

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(Video above is from our news partner, KING5) Welcome to Seattle, Bertha. Coming all the way from Osaka, Japan, the world’s biggest tunnel boring machine arrived on the Seattle waterfront this afternoon. The $80 million machine came in 41 pieces and will be assembled in the pit where Bertha will begin digging the new two-mile Highway… Read More…

ESPN’s Kenny Mayne on childhood prank calls, cloud computing and his love for Twitter

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Washington native Kenny Mayne is one of the more hilarious people around sports broadcasting. A quick YouTube search of his name or a scroll through his latest Tweets is a surefire way to get a good chuckle. So when we ran into Mayne at the Seattle Sports of the Year awards show earlier this year, we had… Read More…

Microsoft boosting rent for vendors, setting new terms for its shadow workforce

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Microsoft employs tens of thousands of people in the Seattle area, but those teams are supplemented by a large “shadow workforce” employed and supplied by outside firms — often working side-by-side with Microsoft’s direct employees at the company’s offices. A new move by the Redmond company is the latest illustration of Microsoft’s underlying power in… Read More…

Tony Wright is chucking the tech industry to travel around the world

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Entrepreneur Tony Wright made a bit of a stir last May when he announced plans to leave Seattle for Silicon Valley to build his next company: Tomo. Now, Wright, the founder of RescueTime and Jobby and a well known fixture in the Seattle tech scene, is chucking it all for … an around-the-world adventure. In… Read More…

We’ve got a double helix bridge, but Taipei is building a double helix skyscraper

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Seattle residents are familiar with the double helix pedestrian bridge, connecting Elliott Avenue with the Amgen campus to the west. But now check this out. Construction just started in Taipei on a 20-story building called Agora Garden that has two sections that intersect much like the double helix, the fundamental structure of DNA. But there’s… Read More…

Meet the GeekWire Calendar: Tech events, geekfests and more in Seattle and beyond

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One of the best things about being a geek in the Seattle region is the abundance of stuff to do — meetups, hackathons, fan conventions, tech industry events and a whole lot more. In fact, there is so much that it’s hard to track sometimes, and it’s easy to miss an event that you otherwise… Read More…

City of Seattle green lights study for new high-tech traffic signals

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Sick and tired of being stuck in nasty Seattle traffic gridlock? Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn feels your pain, and today he announced that the city’s transportation department has inked a deal with transportation firm Transpo to conduct a study to implement a new adaptive traffic signal system in Seattle. That means traffic signals could intelligently respond to… Read More…

VIDEO: Here’s what customers think of a Seattle bar banning Google Glasses

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If you haven’t heard yet, Seattle’s 5 Point Cafe is one of the first establishments to declare a ban on Google Glasses to prevent its patrons from being recorded by the high-tech glasses (but also as a bit of a joke, the bar’s owner admits). Google’s high-tech augmented reality “Project Glass” spectacles are still in development and not available for purchase by… Read More…

Need a tech job? Study shows 80 percent of Seattle CIO’s plan to hire IT staff in 2Q

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If you’re in the Seattle market for an IT job, this is your time. A study from Robert Half Technology surveyed more than 100 CIOs from companies in the Seattle area with 100 or more employees. Results show that 80 percent of those CIOs will be making hires for IT positions in their respective companies in the… Read More…