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Even Bill Gates Couldn't Get into Quantum of Solace

Quantum of Solace dropped so hot that even Bill and Melinda Gates couldn't get into the 7:45 showing at Paul Allen's theater, Cinerama. This gave me an opportunity to have my picture taken (with an iPhone--sorry, Bill) with the gracious software magnate and philanthropist. My friend Nick informed ... More >>

I Need a New Spy Phone

I have a first-generation Blackberry Pearl that I've basically loved to death (OK, dropped), and the photos it takes look like I'm shooting through a dirty handkerchief. This year, I promised I would buy a cell phone with a decent camera. Normal people would simply bring along a camera and take pho ... More >>

Should MSFT Get Into Smartphones?

Here's an interesting theory from Slate and Cnet, which is timely given Microsoft's layoffs and miserable stock performance (down to about $18 per share from $32 a year ago). Writing for Slate, Farhad Manjoo suggests MSFT should buy Palm, maker of the very hot, very hyped Palm Pre (above). That woul ... More >>

Amazon Embraces "Casual Gaming"

Will you call me, Pong? I thought our game meant something.Amazon.com here announces it entry into what's generally called the "casual gaming" market. (See our Jesse Froehling's excellent story here.) Its new Amazon Game Downloads store (currently a beta site) allows users to download games for betw ... More >>

Tickle Me, SpongeBob

Thanks to Redmond company Mobui, SpongeBob SquarePants, erstwhile target of the religious right, is now available for tickling on your iPhone. Released on January 20th, SpongeBob Tickler "creates a virtual underwater iPhone buddy that lives in players' pockets and allows them to manipulate a virtual ... More >>

Does This Kindle Make My iPhone Look Fat?

And here it is! Jeff Bezos has unveiled Kindle version 2.0, and it's bigger, more expensive ($360), yet thinner: only 0.36" according to Amazon, or "25 percent thinner than the iPhone." Here's the Gizmodo report, and the NYT story. Other facts: 8" x 5.3" dimensions, 7 times more memory, Feb. 24 shi ... More >>

WSJ Reports on MSFT's Phone Strategy

Let's shoot down some rumors and relay some facts about Microsoft and smartphones. The Wall Street Journal reports here that the Redmond software titan will start playing catch-up to Apple's iPhone app store by offering similar phone-friendly gizmos for the new Windows Mobile 6.5. One such service, ... More >>

Microsoft's New Weapon Against Apple

Why even bother hiring an advertising firm, when reality is so much better? As Microsoft ramps up its efforts in the smartphone wars against Apple's iPhone, this news just came in from the English-language site of Al Jazeera. Reporter Hamish Macdonald, undoubtedly a very brave man, is wandering arou ... More >>

Ballmer Demands Market Share!

Over at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Microsoft has several announcements designed to up its share of the valuable smartphone market. As the NYT reports, having 90 percent of the PC software market is not enough. (Besides, Windows is a mature product.) MSFT only has about 14 percent of mob ... More >>

PUSA Unveils its own iPhone Application

I just got a press release from Dave Meinart announcing that Seattle's storied rock band, the Presidents of the United States of America (PUSA) have jumped in bed with Apple and now have a new iPhone application. The $2.99 app gives those who subscribe to it, full-tracks from four albums as well as ... More >>

More Seattle Recession Lessons

Not just the other week, I was invited to a dinner party where most of my age peers are far more successful than I, and most of them have teenagers in private schools. All their kids have iPhones, and their iPhones have iPhones. Even so, in such an affluent gathering, talk turned to plunging portfol ... More >>

One More Thing iPhone Owners Can Brag About

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has turned its awesome, universally respected Seafood Watch into a free iPhone app. The database, organized regionally, gives a green, yellow, or red sustainability ranking to hundreds of kinds of fish and shellfish -- the West Coast guide rates everything from abalone (U.S ... More >>

Wisdom From the East, Palin From the West

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has turned its awesome, universally respected Seafood Watch into a free iPhone app. The database, organized regionally, gives a green, yellow, or red sustainability ranking to hundreds of kinds of fish and shellfish -- the West Coast guide rates everything from abalone (U.S ... More >>

Sneaking the Stockbroker’s Discount at Troiani

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SIFF Invades Your iPhone

It had to happen: movies in your pocket. Or rather, the SIFF movie schedule on your smartphone. SIFF's searchable Web site is up and live today, and you can start buying individual tickets there tomorrow (Friday). One cute ancillary feature will also be mobile: "SIFFter," which allows you to mouse a ... More >>

Pour on the Pride: 10 Gayest iPhone Applications

It had to happen: movies in your pocket. Or rather, the SIFF movie schedule on your smartphone. SIFF's searchable Web site is up and live today, and you can start buying individual tickets there tomorrow (Friday). One cute ancillary feature will also be mobile: "SIFFter," which allows you to mouse a ... More >>

Kindle Vs. iPhone, Round II

In a long business story in this month's Fast Company magazine, there are some interesting observations on the mounting battle between the Amazon Kindle electronic reader device and Apple's iPhone. Writer Adam L. Penenberg cites Jobs' past pronouncement that, "It doesn't matter how good or bad [the ... More >>

You Damn Penguins Get Off My Phone!

​Has it come to this? Are we so besotted with penguins and other cute animals that the Woodland Park Zoo insists on our monitoring them via smartphone? The answer, apparently, is yes. The zoo announced today that it's offering a 99-cent application via iTunes for your iPhone. Developed by som ... More >>

A Hug? Not When Anger's All She's Got

​Has it come to this? Are we so besotted with penguins and other cute animals that the Woodland Park Zoo insists on our monitoring them via smartphone? The answer, apparently, is yes. The zoo announced today that it's offering a 99-cent application via iTunes for your iPhone. Developed by som ... More >>

Microsoft Employees Use iPhones, Also Enjoy Oxygen and Committed Relationships

Steve Jobs's dark merlot stains the collars of about 10 percent of Microsoft employees.​Ask anyone who works at Microsoft whether or not they have co-workers who use an iPhone and you're bound to get one or two stories about employees who'll refuse to answer a call in front of their boss, beca ... More >>

Foodspotting: One More Reason Why I Really Need a F#@&ing iPhone

Lee Harvey...I wanna party with you, cowboy​What are these two fellas doing? Well, they're eating. And I happen to know exactly what they're eating (fried calamari), where (Shiro's at 2401 2nd Avenue) and more or less when they were there (yesterday, around noon) all thanks to the cool new app ... More >>

Reader: Microsoft Employees Don't Hide Love for iPhones

There is no shame, in this woman's game.​Reader iPhone Microsoftie responds to Microsoft Employees Use iPhones, Also Enjoy Oxygen and Committed Relationships. "'Some Microsoft workers take pains to hide their iPhones.' No we don't. We're protecting our phone investments: it can cost $400 or ... More >>

How A Bag Of Rice Can Save Your iPhone...And Your iPod?

​Guys, last night I did that thing where I dropped my phone in the toilet, and it wouldn't even turn on afterwards. I was at Video Isle whining about how I was going to have to buy a completely new iPhone, and there was a man there who just happened to work for AT&T. I asked him if I should tr ... More >>

The One Techie Who Doesn't Care About Apple's Stolen iPhone

​ Steve Jobs' quest to recoup his missing iPhone may have most of the tech world transfixed, but not Seattle's biggest geek.

iJacking Becoming the New Rage for Lazy Headline Writers

Even the Hamburgler knows iPhone theft has been going on for years.​Smartphone owners, beware! KOMO News says that you're the target of the latest crime wave sweeping greater Seattle. In an article published last night, KOMO declares that iJacking is "becoming the new rage for criminals." Wha ... More >>

Wasting Time at Work is Getting Sexier: PopCap Games Gets a Challenge From Eastern Europe

​For the last few years, Seattle has been Mecca for people designing games for laptops and iPhones. PopCap's Bejeweled was one of the first so-called "casual games" (no fancy controllers or memory-hogging software required). But now PopCap has some international competition, bringing with it a ... More >>

Microsoft's New Slogan Sucks Less Than Normal!

​"Be What's Next" might not move more Zunes or convince someone to buy a Windows Phone years after they could have had an iPhone. But at least it's not the "New Busy," that ubiquitous "ball of syntactical confusion" and marketing gobbledigook that was supposed to convince people to use Hotmail ... More >>

Macy Gray's Sellout, Leonard Cohen In Bird On A Wire, Scorsese/Jagger's Rock Epic, and NPR Music's New iPhone App

​-- NPR Music: Listen to critic Robert Cristgau review Macy Gray's The Sellout. -- NPR: NPR Music launched an iPhone/iTough app today. Lotsa streams, interviews, tracks, shows, etc. -- NME: Bird On a Wire, the previously-unreleased documentary following Leonard Cohen on his 1972 European tou ... More >>

70 Percent of College Freshman Enter School With Macs

​OK, so it probably won't surprise anyone to hear that kids entering college prefer Macs to PCs. But in the realm of things that could be bad news for Microsoft, the fact that seven out of 10 college freshman prefer the competition is right up there with "we're releasing an iPhone competitor t ... More >>

SeaTac Worker Busted After Allegedly Bragging About Child-Rape Photos to Co-Worker

​It takes a special kind of creep to fly halfway across the world, rape a young girl and record the experience. But even the most brazen perv knows better than to do what police are accusing a 60-year-old SeaTac worker of doing last month.

Today in Sex: "I Wanna Duck You"

​Today, Techcrunch reported that the US Patent and Trademark Office approved an Apple patent which "prevents users from sending or receiving 'objectionable' text messages." Meaning, parents will be able to snap some app on their kid's iPhone that'll keep them from sexting their randy little fr ... More >>

First Reviews of Windows Phone 7: Good, But Not Good Enough

​It's not enough that Microsoft come out with a good phone. Seeing as how Windows Phone 7 is being released four years after Apple launched its iPhone and two years after Google did the same with Android, a merely good offering won't be good enough for many people to go through the hassle of s ... More >>

Windows Phone 7 Survives Longer Than Android and iPhone on BBQ (VIDEO)

​The Daily Weekly does not recommend cooking your smart phone on a barbecue (a crock pot works best). If, however, you are determined to carry out such a course, it's important to time the process accurately so as to avoid having a fully cooked phone go cold while the starch and sides are stil ... More >>

Screw You, iPhone! Five Apps for Android

​It makes me angry that when most companies come out with awesome phone apps, they're all for the iPhone. Then by the time the company actually does get around to making an app for Android, no one cares anymore. To make all you Droid users feel special on this dreary Friday, I pulled together ... More >>

Apptastic Cooking Tools, Part I

​Cookbooks are an important tool in many kitchens. Whether it's Joy of Cooking, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, or The Pioneer Woman Cooks, most home cooks have several books lining the shelves of their kitchen. Some are soiled with butter or chocolate, while others are inscribed with han ... More >>

U.S. Senators Demand that Drivers Quit Using iPhone Apps to Avoid Red-Light Cameras and DUI Checkpoints

​Poor U.S. Senators. They go through the trouble of supporting local governments' law enforcement ideas like road-side speed radars, DUI checkpoints and red-light-running cameras. But then people go and download smart phone apps that help them avoid the traps. The nerve! Well, Senators are not ... More >>

Joshua Foer

​Poor U.S. Senators. They go through the trouble of supporting local governments' law enforcement ideas like road-side speed radars, DUI checkpoints and red-light-running cameras. But then people go and download smart phone apps that help them avoid the traps. The nerve! Well, Senators are not ... More >>

Gael Fashingbauer Cooper

​Poor U.S. Senators. They go through the trouble of supporting local governments' law enforcement ideas like road-side speed radars, DUI checkpoints and red-light-running cameras. But then people go and download smart phone apps that help them avoid the traps. The nerve! Well, Senators are not ... More >>

A Singing Puppy and Nine Other Commercials You'll Sit Through Just for the Music

​A lot of people like football. Even more like children dressed up as Darth Vader trying to use Jedi mind-tricks around the house. It's no wonder then that the last Super Bowl drew in more than 111 million viewers, setting the record for the largest U.S. television audience in a single broadca ... More >>

The Fussy Eye: Tiny Reprise

Dead-eyed dolls.

Steve Jobs Is Dead

​Reuters confirms (as does my Apple iPhone). Good thing he lived long enough to see the latest Apple release crucified by the press. Now, let Jeff Bezos assume his rule as the new emperor of tech.

Mouth open, teeth showing (I)

​Reuters confirms (as does my Apple iPhone). Good thing he lived long enough to see the latest Apple release crucified by the press. Now, let Jeff Bezos assume his rule as the new emperor of tech.