Articles from 2011 – Page 102 of 107

Rob McKenna: Clicking on that Nigerian email scam, probably not a good idea

With botnets, tracking tools, malware and spyware, the Internet still represents the wild, wild West. But Washington State Attorney General… Read More

Exclusive: Zynga picks historic Pioneer Square building for office

Zynga, the fast growing maker of FarmVille, Mafia Wars and other social games, plans to establish its new engineering center… Read More

Now Playing: Post-it Wars

There’s a lot of troubling stuff happening in the world right now, and people are looking for new ways to… Read More

Attention ‘Star Wars’ nerds: The Force is with us

A traveling exhibit called “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination” starts an extended stay in Seattle this weekend, at the… Read More

Nokia CEO: Why would Microsoft want to buy us?

Shortly after Stephen Elop joined Nokia as CEO, speculation arose that Elop’s former employer, Microsoft, might make a move to… Read More

Buy the Bejeweled app, and donate to Japan earthquake relief efforts

Here’s a way to give back to the relief efforts in Japan. Seattle’s PopCap, maker of popular games such as… Read More

Look out, Amazon’s Kindle unit is hiring Android devs

Nice catch by the New York Times this morning: Amazon.com’s Lab 126, which develops the company’s Kindle e-reader, has posted… Read More

Why Firefox 4 isn’t abandoning Windows XP

One of the most divisive aspects of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 release this week was the company’s decision to support… Read More

Ex-Microsoft GM lands CEO gig at Mac security firm

Jeff Erwin, a former Microsoft general manager and Seattle area startup veteran, has been tapped as CEO of Mac security… Read More

Microsoft helps knock out notorious ‘spambot’

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has disrupted one of the world’s largest purveyors of spam, a complex “botnet” that was capable… Read More

March Madness for Robots (Video)

Who cares about basketball when there are robots to watch? The Seattle regionals for the FIRST high-school robotics competition start… Read More

Can Groupon become a $3.75 trillion dollar company in 25 years?

There’s been a lot of chatter today about Groupon talking to bankers about a possible $25 billion post IPO valuation.… Read More

Trademark or not, Apple lays claim to “the” App Store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVvVQc3O01U We’ve been keeping a close eye on a dispute between Microsoft and Apple over the iPhone/iPad maker’s attempt to… Read More

Hydrovolts wins Imagine H20 competition with innovative turbines

Hydrovolts, a Seattle startup that’s developing turbines to generate clean power from canals and other waterways, has won the Water-Energy… Read More

A Windows Phone App … just for the dudes

How do you attract young men to your new slate of mobile phones? Well, you could show them photos of… Read More

Myhrvold firm: Japan crisis shouldn’t deter next-gen nukes

Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue-based patent firm and invention house run by former Microsoft tech chief Nathan Myhrvold, says in a… Read More

Exclusive: Finsphere scores $1.75M, looks to become mobile ID system for the Web

Identity theft is a nasty societal problem, growing worse by the amount of data available online. But a Bellevue startup… Read More

Xbox, Windows unite in internal Microsoft video

Is this the future of Windows PCs? ZDNet’s Stephen Chapman has unearthed an internal video from Microsoft’s “Windows Gaming eXperience”… Read More

What’s your real estate agent really thinking? Redfin unveils Agent Insights

Redfin is launching a new feature today that allows the company’s real estate agents to speak candidly about the homes… Read More

Everything About SXSW That I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before I Went

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More

4 Products That Got Hot at SXSW

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More

Three universal start-up truths

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on Seattle 2.0, and imported to GeekWire as part of our acquisition of… Read More

$49 million richer, Jawbone becomes latest Bay Area darling to kiss up to Seattle

Jawbone, the San Francisco Bluetooth headset and speaker maker which announced $49 million in venture financing today, is planning a… Read More

Cheezburger’s latest: Photos of people in creepy Easter Bunny costumes

So, just how exactly is Cheezburger Network going to use a portion of the $30 million that just arrived from… Read More

Using business intelligence to understand the Japan crisis

Business-intelligence technology is typically used to derive meaning and make decisions from data like sales, costs and other corporate trends.… Read More

Nuclear fallout? Skip the tin foil, grab a cookie sheet

Seattle startup guru Mike Koss of Startpad.org was watching news coverage of the crisis in Japan when he noticed people… Read More

Is BuddyTV on the block?

BuddyTV has been the subject of acquisition rumors in the past. And those surfaced again today after Kara Swisher at… Read More

Browser race: IE9 hits 2.3M; Firefox 4 set for March 22

More than 2.3 million copies of the new Internet Explorer 9 were downloaded in the first 24 hours of availability,… Read More

Bill Gates: What technology (and baseball) can teach schools

The challenges facing the U.S. education system may seem intractable, at times, but schools looking for inspiration could do worse… Read More

Keiretsu pumps $8.9M into startups

Despite the tough economic times over the past 12 months, Seattle angels continue to invest. The Keiretsu Forum today announced… Read More