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Apr 27, 2011, 8:44 PM

Nerd Notes: Tattooed teeth, the battleshoe and a Borderlands proposal

Eric Schmidt interviews Tina Fey at Google HQ. Highlights include Tina telling Eric he would be the kind of guest… Read More

Apr 27, 2011, 9:31 AM

Barnes & Noble: Microsoft wanted ‘shockingly high’ fees for Android in Nook

[Updated with Microsoft’s statement.] Barnes & Noble is rejecting Microsoft’s claims that the use of Android by its Nook e-reader… 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 26, 2011, 5:57 AM

Study: Microsoft’s Windows Phone losing developer interest at slower rate than BlackBerry

Life is tough when you’re trying to come from behind against Android and iPhone in the mobile market, which means… Read More

Apr 21, 2011, 3:42 PM

Rewind: UW’s Ed Lazowska on the engineering talent crunch

Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Ed Lazowska, the longtime computer science professor who holds the… Read More

Apr 21, 2011, 8:43 AM

Microsoft, Nokia make it official: Turning point for Windows Phone?

Sealing a deal they announced in February, Microsoft and Nokia have finalized their mobile partnership ahead of schedule, the companies… Read More

Apr 20, 2011, 2:52 PM

Google or not, Microsoft cloud tools win federal security nod

Microsoft says the federal version of its Business Productivity Online Suite cloud-based communications tools — including Exchange and SharePoint Online… Read More

Apr 19, 2011, 10:15 AM

Phone usage shows iPad users aren’t just Apple fanboys

Hey, you over there with the iPad — is that a BlackBerry in your pocket? Research firm comScore is out… 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 14, 2011, 1:28 PM

Shares of Google get clobbered after first quarter financials disappoint

Google today reported revenue of $8.58 billion for the first quarter, an increase of 27 percent compared to the same… Read More

Apr 13, 2011, 3:57 PM

Blog fight: Google calls Microsoft ‘irresponsible’ for calling Google ‘misleading’

Two days after Microsoft called Google out for “misleading” the U.S. government about a security certification for a Google product,… Read More

Apr 11, 2011, 8:14 PM

Nerd Notes: The Winklevoss twins go away, video games go for the Grammy and Brazil plays with LEGOs

Judge tells Winklevoss twins to take the money, settlements don’t come in pairs. Google launches a daily trivia game, a… Read More

Apr 11, 2011, 2:43 PM

Data: Bing, Yahoo gain on Google

Microsoft Bing and Yahoo both posted gains in the U.S. search market in March, lifting their combined market share to… Read More

Apr 11, 2011, 9:36 AM

Microsoft calls Google out after U.S. disputes Google Apps for Gov’t security claim

Documents unsealed last week by a federal court, and posted online by Microsoft this morning, show the U.S. government disputing… Read More

Apr 8, 2011, 1:36 PM

Early Microsoft partner HTC rides Android past new Microsoft partner Nokia

Microsoft and HTC tied their fortunes together in the emerging smartphone market a decade ago, back when people were still… Read More

Apr 8, 2011, 10:56 AM

U.S. lets Google’s ITA deal fly, with some baggage

The U.S. Justice Department and Google have reached a deal clearing the way for the search giant’s $700 million acquisition… 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 6, 2011, 9:30 PM

Nerd Notes: Shakespeare’s Terminator 2, Microscopic Microchip Art, and tweeting for beer at the ballpark

Kevin Zelco (@MsBeerVendor) is taking beer orders (and tips) at Safeco Field via tweets. A @MrUrinal would round this venture out… 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 5, 2011, 9:23 PM

Nerd Notes: Commodore Revived, Bill and Ted Return and Snake Makes a Fashion Statement

Commodore USA revives the 64. LOAD “*”,8,1 FTW. Seattle startup Evri’s mobile app EvriThing Baseball is your big ticket this… Read More

Apr 5, 2011, 10:16 AM

Why Nasdaq is giving Apple less weight, and Microsoft more

Nasdaq this morning sent a wave through the stock market with the announcement that that it will “rebalance” its closely… Read More

Apr 4, 2011, 12:26 PM

Google bids $900M for Nortel patents, but Microsoft already has them in the bag

[Post updated at 1:45 p.m. with clarification of Microsoft’s rights to these patents under a previous licensing deal with Nortel.]… Read More

Apr 3, 2011, 11:14 AM

Google’s April Fool’s Day joke, Gmail Motion, comes to life via a Kinect hack

The April Fool’s Day joke from Google — Gmail Motion — may not be too far afield after all. Some… Read More

Apr 1, 2011, 12:41 PM

Study: Microsoft’s Ballmer sees approval rating decline

Take this with a grain of salt, like a U.S. presidential approval rating based on a limited survey, but the latest… Read More

Mar 31, 2011, 9:11 PM

Nerd Notes: QuickBar dies, Sagan sings again, and Floodzilla

The reviews are in on Amazon’s Cloud Player. Adobe dreams up an iPad Photoshop App. If A Glorious Dawn didn’t spark a… Read More

Mar 31, 2011, 6:40 AM

Microsoft filing antitrust complaint vs. Google in Europe

Microsoft is back in the middle of an antitrust case in Europe, but this time it’s the one with the… Read More

Mar 30, 2011, 11:07 PM

Windows Phone says its apps are real, not padded

What is it with these Microsoft groups feeling the need to publicly defend their numbers all of a sudden? The… 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 30, 2011, 12:17 PM

Google +1: Does this put the Internet search titan back in the social search game?

Can Google make Internet search more social? That’s the goal with +1, a new service that allows Google users to… Read More

Mar 29, 2011, 4:38 PM

Report: Windows Phone to add NFC mobile payments

One of the biggest buzzwords in the mobile industry right now is NFC, or Near Field Communication — a short-range… Read More