When writing, it’s sometimes easy to be wordy and use unnecessary phrases. A Seattle startup is out to fix that problem with a click of a button. WordRake is a software that… Read More
Here’s your chance to help guide the City of Seattle’s strategies and investments in technology and telecommunications. The City is looking for volunteers to join the Citizens’ Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board… Read More
When the National Weather Service issued a blizzard warning for the Cascades on Sunday afternoon, a lot of Seattle-area smartphone owners received an alert that was long on drama and… Read More
It was the mobile-app version of the Oscars last night at City Hall, as the awards for the first-ever Evergreen Apps Challenge were handed out to local developers. With Mayor… Read More
Well, here’s a very peculiar story with an odd twist. Two months ago we reported that the U.S. Department of State had planned to award a 5-year, $16.5 million contract to… Read More
In theory, it sounded like a great idea. Get a bunch of geeks on one of the state’s iconic white and green ferries for a summer crossing where developers could… Read More
Ready, set, develop. The City of Seattle, King County and Washington State officially kicked off the first-ever Evergreen Apps Challenge today, a competition in which geeks from around Washington state are encouraged… Read More
Requests for H1-B visas, the controversial 22-year-old program that allows skilled workers into the U.S. to complete temporary jobs, are increasingly being made by large corporations in the fields of… Read More
Facebook just isn’t about browsing photos of friends. A new initiative in Washington state actually might have a higher purpose: Allowing citizens to register to vote. The Associated Press reports… Read More
Anyone who has stepped foot near Amazon.com’s new headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood can feel the change happening around them. Perhaps no neighborhood in the city is undergoing… Read More
First, we lost our bid to win one of the NASA Space Shuttles (though we did pick up the consolation prize delivered this weekend). Now, another federal agency is snubbing… Read More
Shares of Concur Technologies soared earlier this month after the Redmond company was awarded a $1.4 billion contract to provide travel and entertainment expense management services to the government, with CEO… Read More
Shares of Concur Technologies jumped nearly seven percent in heavy trading Monday after the Redmond maker of travel and entertainment expense management software announced a long-term deal with the U.S. General… Read More
Chief Technology Officer Bill Schrier announced his retirement today after more than 30 years of service to the city. “Bill Schrier has been an effective and innovative leader in helping… Read More
A study from the University of Illinois at Chicago is giving top marks to the City of Seattle for its use of the web for civic engagement — and calling… Read More
You might say it is a bit of an oxymoron. But Startup Weekend is introducing a new event next month in Seattle designed to bring the fast-paced world of startups… Read More
AT&T appears to still be smarting over its failed $39 billion bid for T-Mobile USA, a deal that fell apart last December under intense government scrutiny. Now, some of those… Read More
The Washington Coalition for Open Government organized a conference this weekend to commemorate the 40th anniversary of our state’s landmark Initiative 276 and the Open Public Meetings Act (and to discuss… Read More
At the GeekWire Summit on Wednesday, former Swype CEO Mike McSherry received the loudest applause of the day when he strongly suggested that the best way to fix the mobile… Read More
The Seattle area and I just went through a four day snow/ice storm event. The City of Seattle’s emergency operations center (EOC) was activated and coordinated the City government’s response. That response… Read More
The city of Seattle’s overhauled website, seattle.gov, was named the top city government web portal in the country today in the Center for Digital Government’s annual Best of the Web awards.… Read More
The U.S. Army is nearing the conclusion of a six-week test of more than 300 smartphones and tablet computers, analyzing how the gadgets could be used in combat situations. CNN… Read More
At the Technology Alliance annual luncheon in Seattle earlier this month, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra explained how the open government movement was “collapsing a lot of the complexity”… Read More
