Articles from 2018 – Page 157 of 161

Report: Dropbox submits confidential filing for an IPO

Cloud storage pioneer Dropbox has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, according to a report, after a few years… Read More

Through with the looking glasses? Hype fades for Snap Spectacles as Google draws the crowd at CES

LAS VEGAS — People love the next trendy thing. Until they don’t. Just off the Strip in Las Vegas, Snap… Read More

Podcast

Geared Up Podcast: Voice assistant mania and the latest TV tech at CES

It’s that time of the year: This week is the Consumer Electronics Show, the biggest tech expo in the U.S.… Read More

Beyond simple answers, Amazon’s Alexa could grow to have opinions … like a video store movie buff

LAS VEGAS — Amazon joined the Walt Disney Co., Fandango and more of the biggest names in content delivery to… Read More

If Steve Ballmer could show President Trump and Congressional leaders one slide, this would be it

Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft CEO, has always been a numbers guy. In his post-Microsoft life, he’s deeply entrenched in… Read More

Bard Richmond, 1950-2017: Former Active Voice CEO was a pioneer in voice messaging software and early advocate for homeless issues

Seattle tech entrepreneur and philanthropist Bard Richmond — a pioneer in the telecom industry who founded Active Voice Corp. in… Read More

Food delivery startup Yumso helps diners just say ‘no’ to Gen. Tso’s chicken, ‘yes’ to authentic dishes

For Max Yan, if he sees General Tso’s chicken on a restaurant’s menu, he keeps moving. “For me, I will… Read More

Derek Collison, the architect behind Cloud Foundry, has left Apcera for a new cloud-messaging startup

One of the important contributors to the early years of cloud computing, Apcera co-founder and CEO Derek Collison, sold his… Read More

CES organizers blame rainstorm for power outage, as weather continues to disrupt tech conference

LAS VEGAS — CES officials say today’s power outage that shut down huge swaths of the show floor at Las… Read More

Boeing unveils unmanned air cargo prototype designed to carry up to 500 pounds

Boeing may be best known for big jetliners like 737 or 777. But check out this little 15-foot long aircraft… Read More

Want to attract a crowd at CES? It helps to have a cute little robot named Buddy

LAS VEGAS — It’s hard enough to navigate the showroom floor at CES without knocking into people or bumping products… Read More

Lights out at CES: Giant trade show plunges into darkness, knocks out Samsung, LG, and other booths

UPDATE, 2:40 p.m.: CES officials say the power outage at the Las Vegas Convention Center Wednesday morning was a result of… Read More

CES Day 2 recap: Exploring the crazy show floor, testing new VR, and taking a virtual air taxi ride

LAS VEGAS — The show floor officially opened Tuesday at CES and we had a chance to try out the… Read More

Testing Alexa in a hotel room: We used Amazon’s voice assistant inside a swanky Las Vegas suite

LAS VEGAS — Alexa is just about everywhere here at CES this week — in PCs; in cars; in coffee… Read More

Podcast

Health Tech Podcast: How AI is making humans the ‘fundamental thing in the internet of things’

Twenty years ago, in 1998, you would have been hard-pressed to find a single hospital room with a personal computer… Read More

GeekWire Anniversary Bash: Tickets on sale for our giant geek carnival featuring ping pong, dodgeball, VR and more

Ping pong. Foosball. Video games. Virtual reality. Dodgeball. And — new this year — a zipline! Yes, it’s once again… Read More

Global education technology investment hits record $9.5B, but K-20 is only 21% of the total

Seattle-area market research firm Metaari has released its annual tally of global edtech investment, and the numbers are eye-popping. Across… Read More

Trump bump? Author of a very different ‘Fire and Fury’ sees uptick in Amazon sales

Fallout from Michael Wolff’s incendiary Donald Trump tell-all is still unfolding on the American political stage. The drama’s main character,… Read More

K2 CEO and co-founder Adriaan Van Wyk is out as software company looks for cloud experience

K2, the Seattle-area software company, plans to announce Wednesday morning that CEO and co-founder Adriaan Van Wyk has stepped down… Read More

Video: Inside Amazon’s traveling smart home trailer, where Alexa controls the PC, coffee pot and the mood

LAS VEGAS — A downpour forced Google to pack it in for the day at CES, but Amazon was out… Read More

Polk Audio debuts first voice-controlled sound bar with Amazon Alexa

LAS VEGAS — Polk Audio is teaming up with Amazon to sell the first voice-controlled sound bar with built-in Alexa… Read More

Hands-on with Windows Mixed Reality headsets: Same tech as Microsoft HoloLens, at a lower price

LAS VEGAS — Virtual reality has its fair share of naysayers. It’s too expensive, they say. It’s too hard to… Read More

Can I escape from CES and get outside? No, but these TV images of nature helped for 2 minutes

LAS VEGAS — It was my first day on the show floor, inside the convention center at CES and all… Read More

Oh, hey look! These all white Google getups are the fashion hit of CES

LAS VEGAS — Google is everywhere this week during CES. And thus, Google workers are everywhere. And they’re pretty easy… Read More

Hate sitting in traffic? I took a virtual ride in this Air Taxi to see the future of urban mobility

LAS VEGAS — A long way from home, I can’t help thinking about the traffic in Seattle. All of the… Read More

Toyota joins growing list of companies announcing integration with Amazon’s Alexa

LAS VEGAS — Add Toyota to the long and growing list of companies that are integrating Amazon’s Alexa into products… Read More

Vegas Golden Knights GM says Seattle could be a ‘perfect fit’ for an NHL team

LAS VEGAS — There are a lot of lessons to be learned from the early success of Las Vegas’ first… Read More

Drill, baby, drill: Seattle’s DataCloud raises $8M for its cloud-based mining software

DataCloud, a Seattle-headquartered startup that has developed a real-time cloud-based service for helping miners assess the quality of the rocks… Read More

CES Day 1 recap: Voice assistants and AI dominate early headlines as rain falls on tech show

LAS VEGAS — Apparently we brought the rain with us from Seattle to Las Vegas. Steady showers and an occasional… Read More

Microsoft admits that the Meltdown/Spectre patches will hit Windows Server performance

After several days of dodging questions about the performance impact of patches designed to fix the Meltdown/Spectre chip design flaws,… Read More