Microsoft’s Windows Store, the app market for Windows 8 computers and Windows RT devices, now offers more than 50,000 apps, according to an unofficial tally maintained by the MetroStore Scanner… Read More
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Barnes & Noble, the struggling bookstore chain, is looking to supercharge its tablet and e-reader business in the face of intense competition from Apple and Amazon.com. The company just announced… Read More
Following reports of lackluster sales of the Surface RT tablet and other Windows RT devices, Microsoft is speaking up in defense of the version of its operating system that was… Read More
Want to send a small token of thanks to a client, customer or friend? GiftGiv, a new Seattle startup, makes sure you don’t miss a beat. As co-founder Kushal Shah… Read More
Editor’s Note: Geek Madness is our quest to find the greatest geek of all time While Harvard was busy upsetting New Mexico yesterday at the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, we had an equally big… Read More
When you look at productive output from a software development team, there’s one factor that almost always predicts problems. You can have top talent; an outstanding idea; great agile process.… Read More
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… Read More
Seattle isn’t just home to some of the nation’s top video game companies — our gaming education is top-tier, too. Redmond’s DigiPen University received good marks from Princeton Review’s 2013 list for… Read More
One of the difficult parts about shifting from iPhone to Windows Phone has been giving up the (near) real-time speech recognition that Google has been offering as part of its… Read More
Good news for T-Mobile smartphone owners in Seattle. The nation’s fourth-largest carrier is expected to roll out its LTE coverage by the end of the month, and now we have… Read More
For years, savvy shoppers have turned to the newspaper to find the best deals at the local grocery store. But new technologies are taking a bite out of the printed… Read More
Nokia is in a dogfight with Apple and Samsung, trying to regain some ground in the ultra-competitive smartphone market. Is this the best way to do it? Nokia CEO Stephen… Read More
Decide.com has reeled in $8 million in fresh funding, money that the Seattle startup will use to hire more engineers and developers to crunch data in order to tell consumers… Read More
For nearly one hour, Nathan Myhrvold stood in front of members of the Microsoft Alumni Network and talked strictly about Modernist Cuisine — the epic, five-volume cookbook-to-end-all-cookbooks, featuring recipes engineered in a… Read More
There are lots of different spins people put on the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament — a.k.a. March Madness — from different sports to subjects. Heck, even GeekWire is doing… Read More
Many may think playing video games is a waste of time. Jane McGonigal disagrees. In fact, she wholeheartedly believes games can help people solve the world’s biggest social problems. McGonigal, an… Read More
PopCap Games is losing the executive producer of its Bejeweled franchise. Giordano “Gio” Contestabile is stepping down from the EA-owned property, news that comes just a few days after EA CEO… Read More
The path to the gaming world has been an interesting one for recent University of Washington grad Vincent Lucero. See, Lucero has always had a passion for technology. He was… Read More
In terms of preventing STDs and unwanted pregnancy, the condom has been pretty revolutionary. But the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to take it one step further, and they… Read More
Bing is beefing up its search results. Today the search engine announced new additions to its Snapshot feature, which now includes LinkedIn information for people results. Last June, Bing introduced Snapshot,… Read More
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Wireless technology company Kymeta Corp. has been in business for a grand total of seven months, but already it has landed a $6.2 million engineering contract with the Inmarsat satellite company… Read More
Apple and Amazon.com are on a collision course in all sorts of businesses — from digital music to e-readers. Now, the two tech titans are trying to make sure that… Read More
Typically, when founders leave companies, they never return. Or, if they do, they come back as CEO as was the case with Steve Jobs at Apple or Howard Schultz at… Read More
If you’ve always wanted to work at a game company like Valve, here’s your chance — well, kind of. The Bellevue-based company today debuted a new program on its Steam… Read More
All that’s left between the T-Mobile and MetroPCS merger is a shareholder’s vote on April 12. Today, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved the deal. This… Read More
At long last, Pandora released its Windows Phone 8 app this morning. Microsoft says the free app will come without ads for the remainder of the year — a benefit… Read More
Z2 Live has a new name, and a new game. The Seattle mobile gaming company, which earlier this month switched its name to Z2, just released a multiplayer car racing… Read More
The actress who sued Amazon.com for displaying her age on IMDb can proceed with her case, according to a decision this week by U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman. Texas actress Junie… Read More