Articles from 2013 – Page 113 of 150

Deal with it? Microsoft apologizes for employee’s ‘always on’ console comment

Microsoft apologized this afternoon for comments made by an employee to critics of the company’s reported plan to require an… Read More

Watch live: $1M on the line at Call of Duty Championships

Geek Madness isn’t the only intense competition going down this weekend. With a $1 million on the line, 32 teams… Read More

6 ways to survive (and thrive) at your next networking event

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who look forward to networking events and those who would… Read More

Vote for the Geek Madness Final Four: Turing vs. Torvalds; Einstein vs. Tesla

Editor’s Note: Geek Madness is our quest to find the greatest geek of all time The Final Four teams of the 2013 NCAA men’s basketball tournament… Read More

Ex-Facebook engineer Ari Steinberg’s stealthy travel startup makes first hire: A former Redfin and Microsoft coder

Ari Steinberg has been pretty quiet ever since he left Facebook last year to start a new online travel startup.… Read More

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

The City of Seattle is conducting a survey to get a better grip on how the Emerald City uses Internet… Read More

Microsoft pokes at Facebook, says new ‘Home’ is like Windows Phone in 2011

Microsoft is a longtime Facebook partner and investor, but that isn’t stopping the Redmond company from making some jabs over… Read More

Chart: The top 10 cities for women-owned businesses

Portland and Seattle are among the top ten cities for women-owned businesses, according to a new report released this week.… Read More

T-Mobile’s iPhone 5 now available for pre-order

If you’re a T-Mobile customer and have been licking your chops since the carrier announced it would be getting the… Read More

Reports: Microsoft eyes Outlook release for Windows RT

One of the biggest complaints about Windows RT, the version of Windows 8 for ARM processors, is the built-in Mail… Read More

Henry Blodget’s Business Insider raises $5 million from Jeff Bezos and others

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is investing in Business Insider, the technology news operation led by former Wall Street investment banker… Read More

Tech Moves: Wiki creator Ward Cunningham joins New Relic; John Doerr named to Zynga board; and more

Ward Cunningham, the Portland software developer who is credited with developing the wiki, has joined New Relic as a staff… Read More

EMP adds late-night hours for ‘Art of Video Games’ exhibit; Tetris tourney tonight

In a Tetris mood tonight? You should probably head to the EMP, then. As its kickass exhibit called The Art of Video… Read More

Study: Those who play Xbox are better in bed than other gamers

Here’s another feather Xbox gamers can add to their caps: Apparently they’re better in bed than those on who play… Read More

Planetary Resources founder: ‘Humans will migrate off Earth in the next 30 years’

Can you imagine packing your belongings and hopping on a spaceship to go live on another planet for the rest… Read More

Take that, Marissa Mayer: This startup’s ‘nomadic engineer’ program lets developers work wherever they want

We’ve seen tech companies do all sorts of crazy things to attract talented engineers — giving away cash, cars and… Read More

Shares of F5 Networks hammered as revenue targets missed

Shares of F5 Networks are tumbling in after hours trading after the Seattle maker of networking equipment announced that revenues… Read More

Zillow tops 50 million visitors in March, lifted by strong U.S. homebuying

The U.S. real estate market is heating up, and Zillow is taking advantage of it. The Seattle online real estate… Read More

Microsoft’s hits and misses: Insights from a prolific maker of Windows 8 apps

The home of Ratio Interactive, in the heart of Seattle’s Pioneer Square, is at first glance pretty much what you’d expect from… Read More

Apple makes gains in U.S. smartphone market, Microsoft in distant 4th place

Apple is gaining market share in the U.S. According to numbers out today from comScore, the Cupertino-based maker of the… Read More

EveryMove receives $3.5 million in fresh funding, launches Android app

EveryMove, a Seattle-based startup that lets users track their healthy habits and rewards them with gift cards and reduced health-care premiums, announced a… Read More

Facebook Home: A replacement for Android homescreens designed around people

Facebook today announced a new Android software integration called Facebook Home that will put Facebook services at the forefront of… Read More

Lies, love affairs and lawsuits: MOD Systems founder Mark Phillips is out of prison and wants a new trial

Mark Phillips is out of prison, and now he’s looking to clear his name. The 38-year-old former CEO of MOD… Read More

Bettery debuts rechargeable battery swap stations at Whole Foods Markets

Every year, 2.5 billion batteries are thrown away in the U.S. and a Portland-based company may have a better solution… Read More

Look out, Microsoft? Tablets to become our primary computers, Gartner predicts

A new report from the Gartner research firm paints a dire picture for the traditional PC market, predicting that tablets… Read More

T-Mobile adds 579,000 subscribers in Q1, reportedly weighs new deal for MetroPCS

T-Mobile is starting to show some momentum as it gets ready to unveil the iPhone on April 12 and roll… Read More

Bill Gates and Paul Allen reprise classic Microsoft photo, three decades later

The photo above is a Microsoft classic, showing the company’s founders, Paul Allen and Bill Gates, surrounded by personal computers… Read More

This 16-year-old is spearheading Seattle’s first biotech hackerspace

Katriona Guthrie-Honea had a great idea. Last year, as a freshman at Ingraham High School in Seattle, she taught herself enough… Read More

This mobile hand-crank phone charger just obliterated its Kickstarter goal

Our smartphones are, for the most part, really nice. They help us find information quickly and stay connected around-the-clock. The… Read More

Myhrvold to Slashdot: We’re more alike than you think

With a caffeine-free Diet Coke and a cappuccino by his side, Nathan Myhrvold entered the “lion’s den” today — a.k.a. Slashdot —… Read More