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  • Blogs

    March 22, 2012

    Seattle Buys More "Hunger Games" Books than Most Cities

    Tonight the much-anticipated "Hunger Games" movie, based on the best-selling trilogy by Suzanne Collins, releases worldwide. Amazon says that Seattle is exceptionally burning for the 'girl on fire' with local readers purchasing more books and downloads than almost any city in the country.

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    How Bill Gates Killed Microsoft's Courier Tablet

    Hey you! Don't do that!​It's not by chance that seemingly every major tech/gadget company has been selling a tablet computer for some time now except Microsoft. In fact the reason for Microsoft's echoing absence in the tablet market may be largely due to one man.

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Amazon and Barnes & Noble Use Stupid Math to Magically Double Kindle and Nook's Battery Life

    ​On Tuesday, shoppers in the market for a new E-reader tablet would have seen graphics and advertisements that said the Amazon Kindle has a one-month battery life. By Wednesday, those same graphics and ads would have showed the device's battery life had suddenly doubled. A technological break ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    Apple's Enemy Is Microsoft's Friend

    ​Chelsea Kate Isaacs once got mad at Steve Jobs in an e-mail. That e-mail then went public. Now Microsoft has invited the enemy of its enemy to a launch of its new mobile phone, Windows Phone 7. Coincidence? Microsoft says so. But there's good reason to doubt it.

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2010

    Portland Gets a Cool New Food Truck Gadget. Now Where's Ours?

    ​It seems that, these days, everyone wants to jump on the "food trucks are a dead trend" bandwagon. The thought process, over the pat two years or so, has gone something like: 1) Food trucks are so cool! 2) Everyone thinks food trucks are so cool! 3) Food trucks suck because everyone thinks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Dreaming of a Robotic Future: Where's My Beer, Stupid Robot?

    Not the beer robot in question, but close enough​I have spent years trying to shoehorn my views about the inevitable robot apocalypse into newspaper (or blog) stories that are nominally supposed to be about food. And because every day on earth is just one day closer to the day when the robots ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2010

    The "Amazon.com of Pot"? More Like the "Craigslist of Weed"

    John Lee of PlainView has built a great way for medical marijuana vendors to find customers. Just don't call it Amazon.​PlainView Systems is a California-based company that describes itself as a "business-to-business exchange for licensed providers of compassionate care medical marijuana produ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Windows 7 Put to the Test

    ​The countdown to Microsoft's Oct. 22 launch of Windows 7 now stands at seven days. But test versions of the operating system are out there, and more reviews are coming in. After Walt Mossberg's favorable assessment, tech site CNET has opted for a more quantitative approach. The site compared ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Oops Again: Microsoft Apologizes for Photo Swap, Then Links to Image Trashing Microsoft

    ​After being put through the wringer yesterday for Photoshopping a black man out of a web ad (while leaving a white Macbook in!), Microsoft apologized to news outlets and on Twitter last night. The thing is, ineptitude struck again. In attempting in its tweet to link to CNET blogger Ina Fried' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Ballmer Says Microsoft Will Get "Tenacious" With Bing Bling

    How awesome is Microsoft? Let us count the ways: Its new web browser is supposedly pretty cool. Its new search engine, Bing, gained a little market share. After a period of intense reflection, Steve Ballmer says the company should have gotten into the search business sooner. But now that the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2009

    Maybe We Should Just Send a Battleship to Mountain View

    The Puget Sound/Silicon Valley battles are heating up. First, Microsoft is going after Google on the search front, combining a reportedly decent product with an aggressive marketing campaign that suggests that Google's search engine could drive you insane. Now, Google is taking aim at Amazon and its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    Bing's Early Reviews: So Far, Not Bad

    We're 24 hours into the Bing era--i.e. the era of Microsoft's new search engine. (It's called Bing!) And even though the public doesn't have access to the service yet, a lot of tech writers do, and their reviews are in--and excerpted below. Be ready for the product to launch--it'll be available to e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2009

    Zune 2.0?

    Could it be? Is this the rebirth of Zune? Will Microsoft not pull the plug on the music player coveted by an astounding zero percent of American teens? Tech Web site Engadget.com is reporting what looks to be a total design overhaul of the device. Over on Cnet.com, they're saying it's likely a touch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2009

    Amazon Drops New Kindle Hint Before Earnings Report

    Amazon.com will report its fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday. Before that, however, perhaps hoping to goose analysts and potential customers, the company is pimping its Kindle Version 2.0. According to this NYT blog account, Jeff Bezos himself will attend the February 8 unveiling of the refreshed ... More >>

  • Music

    March 19, 2008

    Saul Williams Gets Instant Karma for the Digital Age

    See what happens when you give your record away?

  • News

    October 24, 2007

    Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

    Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

  • News

    August 10, 2005

    The Other Thunder Road

    Aug. 10-16, 2005

  • News

    February 20, 2002

    Needle Exchange

    "News about Seattle from far and wide."

  • Food

    August 2, 2000

    Tobacco in every bottle

    "News about Seattle from far and wide."

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    Microfraud?

    A Microsoft executive accuses the company of cooking its books.

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