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  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Microsoft Makes $444 Million Annually From Android Devices--This Is Chump Change

    Every time HTC, Samsung, LG and four other companies sell an Android (Google)-powered device like a smartphone or tablet, Microsoft makes $3 to $6. This is good for Microsoft. But not nearly as good as if people simply quit buying Android stuff.

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Amazon Appstore Is a Bum Deal for Developers, Says App Company

    ​Russell Ivanovic runs a small mobile-app company called Shifty Jelly, which makes a pod-casting program called Pocket Casts. The app enjoys favorable reviews on the Apple Store and is quite popular in Ivanovic's home country of Australia. Until recently Ivanovic also had his app on the Amaz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Microsoft Makes Five Times as Much Money on Android Phones as Windows Phones

    ​HTC pays Microsoft $5 for every Android phone it sells, according to a report today by Citi analyst Walter Pritchard. These payments add up to some $150 in revenues for the Redmond-based company--far dwarfing the estimated $30 million in revenues that Microsoft makes from its own Windows Phon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Why You Should Never Use a Smart Phone at Starbucks

    ​Actually you shouldn't use a smart phone (especially Android-powered) on any open wifi network, Starbucks' or otherwise.

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Google Sets Up a Safe House For Your MP3s That Cannot Be Destroyed By Spilled Sprite

    Stay with me for a minute. If you listen to music, you just might Google's Music Beta interesting. Let's assume you've got a ton of mp3s on your computer. You can listen to them on your computer or your iPod (or whatever device you drag/burn them to). This takes up a lot of digital space. And whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Amazon "Appstore" Debuts Today Amid Fanfare and a Big Fat Lawsuit from Apple

    ​Two things usually happen when a familiar technology innovation is modified and launched as something new these days. First, there's a big roll-out party/press event. Second, there's an even bigger lawsuit filed by a competitor that claims it's been copied. So on day one of Amazon's big debut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Microsoft vs Google in Twitter Fight to the Death

    ​In the red corner, fighting out of Redmond, Washington, with $86 billion in assets and 89,000 slave-driven employees... It's Microsoft! And in the blue corner, from Mountain View, California, commanding $46 billion in assets and helping 65 percent of the country find its porn... Google! Lllll ... More >>

  • Music

    January 5, 2011

    Rhapsody's Product Is Better Than Its Pitch

    It's going to be a long 2011 if they don't straighten it out.

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2010

    Paul Allen Still Determined to Sue the Internet

    ​Microsoft co-founder and 400-foot yacht-owner Paul Allen is determined to sue the pants off the internet. Well, maybe not the entire internet, per se, but rather a bevy of the biggest companies around that use it.

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    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 >>

  • News

    September 8, 2010

    Does Not Compete

    The absurd effects of the San Francisco Bay Guardian "predatory pricing" suit.

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Steve Ballmer Is Driving Microsoft Off a Cliff

    Say what you will about Steve Jobs' mom jeans, but he'd never be caught looking this silly on camera.​Even for non-techies, it's easy to understand just how far Microsoft has fallen since Steve Ballmer was put in charge. Ballmer -- the sweatinest, spittinest CEO this side of the Mississippi - ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2010

    Microsoft Drops Two Syllables from Seven-Syllable Mobile Phone Name

    Hopefully easier to use than to say.​In this week's April Fool's issue, we took note of the seven-syllable name for Microsoft's upcoming, game-changing, breakthrough mobile phone. Where Google has the geek-chic of Android, and Apple the sleek ease of the iPhone, Microsoft came up with: Wind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2010

    How Steve Ballmer Can Save Windows Mobile at CES Tonight

    Can Ballmer save his ailing mobile platform?​Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer delivers a keynote address at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. A lot is on the line. Especially for Windows Mobile, which is one step away from the glue factory. Earlier this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Foursquare Goes Nowhere? A Critic Emerges...

    ​The pattern repeats itself; New phone app comes out. A review lauds its "game-changing" nature. A few weeks later someone points out that the game really wasn't changed after all. Ho hum. Enter Foursquare. If you've not heard of Foursquare, you likely don't have an iPhone or an Android-based ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Seattle Blogs: The Coming Microsoft-Google Phone Wars?

    Cory O'Brien via TwitterOne Google phone to rule them all.​Serving up the best of the local blogosphere, once daily. - All About Microsoft asks if Google's new Nexus One phone will spur a Microsoft copycat. While TechFlash explains how Microsoft inadvertently helped Google build their much-hy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    "Game Over" for Microsoft?

    Do you really care if this software is or isn't on your phone?​Up in the San Juans, tech analyst Mark Anderson publishes an influential newsletter called Strategic News Service, little read by laypeople but studied intently by industry players in Redmond and Silicon Valley. In a recent pronoun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    Microsoft WinMo Getting Ass Kicked by Cupcake

    ​While Redmond is crowing and Steve Ballmer is gloating about the successful launch of Windows 7, the smartphone platform Windows Mobile is being treated like a bastard stepchild--locked and starved in the basement, if you will. With the PC operating system market now fairly mature, the new gr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2009

    Google Attacks Pearl (Sammamish) Harbor!

    It's on! Google has announced on its own corporate blog its intention to compete with Microsoft in the PC operating system market. That's right: It's Mountain View versus Redmond, the upstart search engine/advertising company against the world's No. 1 software company. Google has now stated its inte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2009

    Microsoft Takes on Wii, Will Take Over Space Needle

    The Wii is on notice: Yesterday, with the help of Steven Spielberg and the two surviving Beatles, Microsoft unveiled a device for the Xbox that allows one to play without a controller. Instead, the Project Natal (yeah, that's the name) uses a camera, voice recognition software, and infrared technolo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2009

    Kindle Fever!

    Kindle 2.0 is koming! As predicted, next Monday morning in New York, Jeff Bezos will unveil the second generation of the popular digital download device. Gizmodo says the press conference, which it will live-blog, begins at one o'clock our time, and predicts Bezos will announce some features that pu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2009

    Can I Google My Bus?

    Here's a new feature on Google Maps that sounds awesome, but maybe isn't so much? You can now add a transit overlay to your map of choice. According to Gizmodo, Seattle is one of 50 cities worldwide to have this information added. Who's not on the list? Those snobs in New York. Suck it, Big Apple!Na ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 2, 2008

    Cory Doctorow

    Here's a new feature on Google Maps that sounds awesome, but maybe isn't so much? You can now add a transit overlay to your map of choice. According to Gizmodo, Seattle is one of 50 cities worldwide to have this information added. Who's not on the list? Those snobs in New York. Suck it, Big Apple!Na ... More >>

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Paul Allen vs. Google?

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2007

    Paul Allen Vs. Google?

    Cable, wireless phones, and billions of dollars for the FCC.

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