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May 24, 2011, 10:50 AM

T-Mobile’s Bobsled back on track for Facebook voice calls

T-Mobile USA relaunched its Bobsled service for making free voice calls on Facebook today with a revised interface meant to… Read More

May 19, 2011, 9:00 AM

Facebook to use Microsoft’s PhotoDNA technology to combat child pornography

Facebook will be the first company outside of Microsoft to roll out the Redmond company’s PhotoDNA technology — a move… Read More

May 16, 2011, 1:36 PM

Microsoft Bing gets a little more help from our Facebook friends

Microsoft Bing is rolling out a new wave of Facebook integration across its search results starting today, tapping data from… Read More

May 15, 2011, 8:47 PM

Full text: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s advice to USC grads

Yesterday we offered a few highlights from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s commencement address Friday at the University of Southern California,… Read More

May 13, 2011, 6:51 PM

Nerd Notes: Facebook plays dirty, squids in space and Batman sweats it up

Facebook hired a PR firm to publicly hate on Google. Wow, Facebook really didn’t Like Google’s +1. Cell phones are… Read More

May 10, 2011, 11:01 PM

Study: Facebook leads in work-life balance, Amazon trails

Amazon.com has been hiring new workers at an amazing clip, but a new study suggests that its employees are still… Read More

May 8, 2011, 5:03 PM

Skype + Microsoft? Why a deal could make sense … for Skype

Microsoft’s name emerged this weekend as a potential suitor of Skype, following a report last week that Facebook and Google… Read More

May 4, 2011, 9:08 AM

With eyes on Facebook, RealNetworks’ GameHouse makes ‘Lets Make a Deal’ deal

GameHouse, the last big content-producing business inside Seattle’s RealNetworks, is still awaiting its own deal — a long-planned spinoff that… Read More

Apr 27, 2011, 12:58 PM

GeekWire Podcast: Paul Allen on technology, his life, Bill Gates and everything else

We’re pleased to present this special mid-week edition of the GeekWire Podcast, featuring audio highlights from my interview Friday evening… Read More

Apr 26, 2011, 10:16 AM

Court grapples with ‘cast of thousands’ in Paul Allen suit vs. Google, Apple and others

With more than a dozen lawyers looking on — representing Google, Apple, eBay, Yahoo, Facebook and other Internet titans —… Read More

Apr 25, 2011, 10:19 PM

Facebook Deals takes on Groupon and Living Social, and Tippr is there for the ride

Facebook launched its much-anticipated attack on Groupon and Living Social tonight, unveiling the Facebook Deals service in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas,… Read More

Apr 25, 2011, 7:14 PM

T-Mobile’s Bobsled voice service for Facebook slides off course

Less than a week after its debut, T-Mobile’s free Facebook voice calling service, Bobsled, has apparently veered off course. The… Read More

Apr 18, 2011, 9:01 PM

Review: Paul Allen’s new book isn’t mean, it’s just honest

I’ve just finished reading an advance copy of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s memoir, “Idea Man,” due out Tuesday. You know,… Read More

Apr 15, 2011, 10:55 AM

T. Rowe Price invests $190 million in Facebook: More validation for Steve Ballmer’s early bet

Microsoft was criticized three years ago when it sunk $240 million into Facebook, valuing the upstart social networking company at… Read More

Apr 13, 2011, 8:06 PM

Nerd Notes: Kid sides with Vader, Google Earth wackery and an Angry Birds birthday

Some kid chooses the Dark Side over the Jedi Academy and makes a couple of Disney workers extremely uncomfortable. Apparently… Read More

Apr 7, 2011, 1:09 PM

Facebook shakes things up, shares data center secrets

Facebook today took the unusual step of starting to share with the world the techniques it has developed to make… Read More

Apr 7, 2011, 8:42 AM

Poll: Are we experiencing another tech bubble?

Here comes the “B” word again. That’s right, bubble. Venture capitalists and startups are currently engaged in a wild deal… Read More

Apr 6, 2011, 11:54 AM

How Facebook’s new Seattle engineers put its mobile revamp months ahead

Seattle is Facebook’s first major remote engineering base outside its Palo Alto HQ, so it’s a test case for future… Read More

Apr 4, 2011, 10:34 PM

Nerd Notes: Volcanoes, sports, sneakers and moonbuggys

Sci-fi fantasy novelist George R.R. Martin feels cheated by the “Lost” finale. Lost co-creator Damon Lindeloff feels like starting a… Read More

Apr 1, 2011, 8:47 PM

Nerd Notes: 10 lessons from Angry Birds, 2 Thor posters and 1 Playmobil Apple Store

10 Lessons from Angry Birds that can make you a better CIO. No, slingshotting birds at the IT staff didn’t… Read More

Mar 30, 2011, 6:58 PM

Nerd Notes: Biz on Zuck, Skype in the Classroom and Noah Wyle +1

$500 Million: Too low for Twitter? Biz drops the juicy details about Zuckerberg’s courting (it happened in a car…) on Howard Stern. Nintendo announces the next console… Read More

Mar 29, 2011, 3:07 PM

Zapd: ‘We built it, they came, but Facebook pulled up the drawbridge’

Guest Commentary: We launched Zapd yesterday to great fanfare — hundreds of users were signing up each hour and posting… Read More

Mar 27, 2011, 10:27 PM

YearlyLeaf turns your Facebook status updates and photos into a coffee table book

Facebook is great for keeping up with friends. But once you post a photo or status update, those memories can… Read More

Mar 24, 2011, 8:13 PM

Facebook: Mystery search box was caused by someone ‘targeting the browser’

Turns out the mystery web search box that some people saw at the top of Facebook today was a mystery… Read More

Mar 24, 2011, 4:52 PM

Facebook web search could be boon for Bing, if it happens

[Update: Facebook: Mystery web search box was the result of someone ‘targeting the browser’] A report this afternoon says Facebook… Read More

Mar 23, 2011, 2:26 PM

The ‘Fourth Place’: Starbucks as a technology giant

Starbucks has always aspired to be the quintessential “third place,” giving people another place to settle in apart from home… Read More

Mar 20, 2011, 6:07 AM

Facebook’s latest acquisition: No mobile phone left behind

Sure, smartphones get all the headlines these days, but what about devices on the other end of the bell curve?… Read More