Avoiding a standoff with the Federal Communications Commission, for now, AT&T and T-Mobile USA parent company Deutsche Telekom say they have withdrawn their FCC application for approval of AT&T’s proposed… Read More
Microsoft’s growing retail footprint, in stores and online, comes with an obligation to participate in the annual Black Friday sales — at least if it wants to keep up with… Read More
Toby Crittenden is a political geek — part of a generation that makes intuitive use of technology as a natural part of the democratic process. Our latest Geek of the… Read More
Earlier this week, two University of Washington seniors were named Rhodes Scholars for 2012, making the UW the only public university in the country with two students to receive the… Read More
The day after Thanksgiving is traditionally known for shopping, but Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic this week suggested an alternative purpose: quietly dumping the ancient Internet Explorer 6 from your parents’… Read More
Like Scotty in Star Trek, the day is coming soon when we’ll talk with our computers instead of just typing at them, according to a prominent UW computer scientist and… Read More
Microsoft has signed a non-disclosure agreement allowing it to examine Yahoo’s finances as it considers participating in a buyout of the Internet company, according to a New York Times report… Read More
The Kindle and Nook are locked in a heated battle, and the rivalry is about to get a little hotter this Friday. Barnes & Noble just announced that it is… Read More
Is there anything Shwetak Patel can’t do with a home electrical system? We’re often left pondering that question after hearing about the latest high-tech exploits of the University of Washington assistant… Read More
Have you noticed a little extra facial hair around the office this month? Yep, it’s Movember — the month formerly known as November in which guys across the globe are… Read More
It must have pretty exciting for jurors in Salt Lake City to see Bill Gates arrive to testify in Novell’s antitrust case against Microsoft. That was Monday. By yesterday the… Read More
Americans appear to be a giving mood this holiday season — at least when it comes to buying items on online retail sites. comScore announced today that it expects e-commerce… Read More
Have you purchased a Kindle Fire yet? Priced at $199 and released just a few weeks before the holiday rush, Amazon is making a big bet on a device that… Read More
Shares of Netflix have been absolutely hammered in the past five days, with the one-time high-flying video streaming service shedding almost 20 percent of its value after announcing that it… Read More
For years, here’s how things worked in Apple’s app store. You discovered a mobile app you liked, and then you either downloaded it for free or paid a small one-time… Read More
Call Millennials innovators. Publishers. Mobilizers. Socialites. Just don’t call us salesmen. That’s one way to read last week’s mixed reaction to “Generation Sell,” the provocatively titled New York Times op-ed… Read More
At Startup Weekend in Seattle earlier this month, Seattle artist and designer Kyle Kesterson and crew wowed the crowd with their new game for Kinect, Android and iOS called In… Read More
Microsoft plans to develop a version of its Kinect hardware especially for Windows, with new capabilities and specifications to make the sensor work in a wider variety of settings as… Read More
I’m a big fan of GeekWire, so when one of my Twitter followers suggested that I start a regular Q&A column for the site, focusing on consumer electronics and gadgets,… Read More
Wishpot has rolled out a new service, just in time for the holiday shopping rush. The Seattle upstart has developed a new service that integrates with the new Siri voice… Read More
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is expected to ask for an administrative hearing on AT&T’s $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA, sources tell Bloomberg News and The Wall Street… Read More
Does the world need another social network? Doug Brown and David Greschler — the brains behind a new Kirkland startup called PaperShare — certainly think so. But PaperShare isn’t another Twitter… Read More
No doubt you are familiar with the concept of minimum viable product (MVP). But no matter how long the term has been around, I talk to entrepreneurs all the time… Read More
Persistence, courage and an ability to learn from failure. Those are some of the attributes of entrepreneurs, all traits exhibited by Gist founder and CEO T.A. McCann in 2011. One… Read More
Varolii, a Seattle company whose communications software is used by banks, airlines and utilities to send alerts to customers, has named Sharath Dorbala to the postion of vice president of product… Read More
Remember Joe Marini? He’s the Microsoft worker who left his job back in September after tweeting about what was then an unreleased Windows Phone from Nokia. As we reported at the… Read More
A firestorm erupted earlier this month after CNN’s Soledad O’Brien questioned blogger-turned-venture capitalist Michael Arrington and others about why more black entrepreneurs don’t receive venture capital financing in Silicon Valley. While… Read More
University of Washington electrical engineering researchers say they have successfully tested a single-pixel, wirelessly powered display on a contact lens on live rabbits without side effects. The research, detailed today… Read More
Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the acquisition front in recent months, ever since shelling out $8.5 billion for Skype. But the software giant is starting to put some of… Read More
The number of e-books available for digital lending on Amazon’s Kindle through public libraries around the country has declined noticeably in recent days — from more than 27,000 to less… Read More
