Every now and then you get tired of hearing so much about something you know nothing about. This week I resolved to get to know Reddit. The ginormous social forum… Read More
The European Commission this morning took another step toward a possible fine against Microsoft and delivered a public warning to the company over a component of Windows 8, two days… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is the title sponsor of the Seattle Sounders FC soccer team — which means that fans show up at games with the Xbox 360 brand across their… Read More
I’m the kind of guy who worries when something gets too popular. I looked askance at novels (especially science fiction) that made it to mainstream bestseller lists when written by… Read More
FOLLOW-UP: Tablet Cheat Sheet 2.0: Now an editable spreadsheet People thinking about buying tablets now have no shortage of options — not only choosing which brand of tablet to buy,… Read More
[Editor’s note: GeekWire is running a series of profiles on the startups participating in this year’s class in the TechStars Seattle incubator program. Check back each day at 1:30 p.m.… Read More
This is stuff you only see in the movies. “Today, we made science fiction science fact,” says Keith Coleman, CHAMP Program Manager for Boeing Phantom Works, in the video above.… Read More
UPDATED: Apple has wrapped up its media event in California, where the company’s top marketing exec, Phil Schiller, confirmed the widely expected news that Apple is coming out with a… Read More
After unveiling expanded sports programming at the E3 video game conference in June, Microsoft Xbox has just announced a new NBA Game Time app that aims to satisfy the pro… Read More
MTN Satellite Communications, a provider of wireless communications technologies to the maritime industry, has officially opened its Seattle operation under the direction of technology veteran Robert Wise. We reported on… Read More
Tablets are the one of the most competitive arenas in consumer technology right now, with multiple tech giants fighting for a piece of the growing market, including Microsoft and Google.… Read More
Last night’s final presidential debate produced some of the best zingers of the campaign, with President Barack Obama sounding off about “horses and bayonets” and former Governor Mitt Romney proclaiming… Read More
Microsoft is starting the rollout of Xbox SmartGlass this week with the launch of an app for Windows 8 that lets people use their tablets and PCs as “second screens”… Read More
When it started, the name “Chirpify” suited the Twitter world perfectly. But things are going well for the Portland-based startup, and Chirpify announced today that it is expanding to Facebook’s… Read More
Just as Amazon appears to be pushing out some older Kindle models, the company announced today that the Kindle Fire HD is the “No. 1 best-selling product across all of Amazon… Read More
Meet Mark Zuckerberg, an impressive and talented Microsoft engineer. That might have been a truthful sentence had Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, not gone off and revolutionized the social networking world. The… Read More
[Editor’s note: GeekWire is running a series of profiles on the startups participating in this year’s class in the TechStars Seattle incubator program. Check back each day at 1:30 p.m.… Read More
Another problem at Amazon.com’s data center in Virginia has knocked several sites offline, the latest problem for the company’s cloud computing efforts. For whatever reason, it always seems to be… Read More
Bill Gates was the main person behind Microsoft’s longtime strategy of selling Windows to a variety of computer makers, and refraining from making computers itself. But the Microsoft chairman is… Read More
I was a huge fan of the news aggregation service Summify, and was bummed when the Vancouver, B.C. was shut down this past summer after being sold to Twitter. But now… Read More
We’re just a day away from GeekWire’s fall Meetup in which we’ll combine elements of The Voice (karoake) with Shark Tank (elevator pitches). The action will get rolling Tuesday, October 23rd at The Crocodile in… Read More
PAX is going Down Under. Penny Arcade, the Seattle-based video-game webcomic and commentary site responsible for the giant Penny Arcade Expo events, confirmed over the weekend that the first PAX Australia will… Read More
Last week, it was Amazon saying goodbye to the Kindle DX and now it appears they’re doing the same to the Kindle Touch. Amazon lists the $99 Kindle Touch on… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur David Bluhm has joined the University of Washington’s entrepreneur-in-residence program as part of an ongoing effort by the university to match experienced Seattle area business leaders with new innovations… Read More
Meet Julian, a 3-year-old whose family has been running a preview of Windows 8 for the past month on their home computer. Despite relatively limited usage, Julian has no problem… Read More
Microsoft’s Skype Division will debut its new app for Windows 8 on Friday, the same day the new operating system launches — a big boost for Windows and one of… Read More
[Editor’s note: GeekWire is running a series of profiles on the startups participating in this year’s TechStars Seattle incubator program. Check back each day at 1:30 p.m. for a new… Read More
The world is becoming a smaller place, yet even with communications and social media technologies you can still feel cut off from the experiences, fears and desires of those living… Read More
Damn you, Apple Maps. But not for the reasons you think. “So, right now, if I asked you what direction Portland was, you really don’t know?” my husband asked me… Read More
