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IBM Corporation

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Seven Other Things Facebook Should Totally Buy

    Yesterday it was announced that Facebook had agreed to purchase roughly 650 former AOL patents from Microsoft at a cost of $550 million. The announcement comes not long after Microsoft purchased a total 925 AOL patents and patent applications from AOL for a whopping $1 billion.

  • Calendar

    March 14, 2012

    The Matrix

    Yesterday it was announced that Facebook had agreed to purchase roughly 650 former AOL patents from Microsoft at a cost of $550 million. The announcement comes not long after Microsoft purchased a total 925 AOL patents and patent applications from AOL for a whopping $1 billion.

  • Calendar

    February 15, 2012

    The Matrix

    Yesterday it was announced that Facebook had agreed to purchase roughly 650 former AOL patents from Microsoft at a cost of $550 million. The announcement comes not long after Microsoft purchased a total 925 AOL patents and patent applications from AOL for a whopping $1 billion.

  • Arts

    November 30, 2011

    Visual Arts: The Chic of the New

    Furniture from the Mad Men era at BAM.

  • Music

    July 6, 2011

    The Short List: This Week's Recommended Shows

    From Slack Fest to Neko Case.

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Rumors of Microsoft's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

    ​A reminder to the folks (myself included) who occasionally like to write about how Microsoft is yesterday's news--how its stock price sucks, it's losing the fight on mobile phones, has lost the fight on tablets and is more known for fighting patent wars than innovating new products.

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Boeing Makes List of Top 12 Corporate Welfare Queens

    Boeing, tax cheat, Fortune 500, Citizens for Tax Justice

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2011

    Bill Gates' Face Does Not Like the Control-Alt-Delete Guy and His Mean Jokes (VIDEO)

    ​David Bradley is one of the original developers of the IBM PC. But his lasting achievement, no doubt, is that he came up with the control-alt-delete reboot key sequence that's the most famous button combination since up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, select, start. One guy w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! Champ: Never Been High Except on a Drug Called Ken Jennings

    ​By now, we know most of the trivia about Ken Jennings, the Jeopardy! champ who won $2.5 million with a record 74 straight matches: Grew up in a Mormon family in View Ridge, high-schooled in Korea, lived in Utah, attended UW and BYU, now lives here in the 'burbs. But did you know he was asked ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2011

    IBM Supercomputer Watson Destroys Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter--Ready Now to Become Doctor/Car Mechanic/Counterterrorism Expert

    ​IBM's overpriced circuit board "Watson" thoroughly mopped the floor with inferior humanoids Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter last night on Jeopardy! (insert Skynet/machine takeover joke here). So what's next for the estimated $3 billion box of bolts? Career opportunities are already lining up.

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Ken Jennings Gets Schooled by Supercomputer Watson and Brad Rutter on Day 1 of Jeopardy Human/Comp Showdown

    ​The only thing currently standing between IBM supercomputer Watson and its inevitable rise as humanity's all-powerful overlord is a young, flawlessly stubbly man from Pennsylvania named Brad Rutter. Hometown hero and winningest Jeopardy player ever, Ken Jennings, spent day one of the much hyp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Ken Jennings is Too Charming and Intelligent to be Human

    ​Two humans and one machine are scheduled to resume their intellectual duel-to-the-death tonight on Jeopardy. Or is it two robots and one human? After the live chat Seattle brainiac Ken Jennings just gave on The Washington Post forum, it's starting to look like Jennings may in fact be a machin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    IBM Supercomputer "Watson" Will Destroy Ken Jennings on Jeopardy, Says Odds-Maker

    ​Next week Seattle's human computer Ken Jennings will finally face off against IBM's actual computer "Watson" along with fellow smartypants Brad Rutter in a $1 million grand prize trivia duel to the death on Jeopardy. So who will triumph, man or machine? If you believe a leading gambling websi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2010

    World Trade Center Beams Arrive - Or Return - to the State that Helped Build, Destroy Towers

    ​Weekend news reports recount the first arrival in Washington state of steel I-beams from the demolished World Trade Center, destined to become part of a Sept. 11 memorial in Kitsap County. It's likely the beams were actually returning to Washington state - made in Seattle by part of the conso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2010

    Seattle Doesn't Make List of Crappiest Commutes

    ​Although we really (REALLY) like to bitch about the traffic around here, it turns out things aren't so bad. At least as long as you think globally. IBM punched a bunch of numbers into a computer and out came something called the commuter pain index (graph after the jump) which, if it's at all ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2009

    Reader: Microsoft Would be Smart to Avoid IBM Comparisons

    What do a mouse and elephant have to do with Microsoft and IBM? Read on.​Reader lurker responds to Uh-Oh: Ex-Employee Says Microsoft Today Is Like IBM in 1985. It's worth reading just for the quote at the end. "And let's not forget the highly relevant fact that Microsoft got its start by pigg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    Uh-Oh: Ex-Employee Says Microsoft Today Is Like IBM in 1985

    Time for Microsoft to give up the throne?​Don Dodge was the start-up guru for Microsoft until he got laid off in November. Within a week he was hired at Google. (And thus able to play with all the fun new toys he'd been denied in Redmond.) Now, in an interview with Nick Eaton at the Microsoft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Microsoft Says Graying Boomers Will Never Surrender Their Gadgets!

    Boomers learned to love their gadgets early, and will continue to buy new ones, says Microsoft.​As more baby boomers near retirement, adjust to bifocals, and have their hips replaced, Microsoft predicts the Me Generation will be anything but geezer in its ongoing embrace of technology. The New ... More >>

  • Arts

    December 2, 2009

    The Fussy Eye: Na, Meet Xe

    Hard science, soft art.

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    Server Reboot Wednesday: Your Computer's Just Not That Into You Edition

    This from our IT maestro Paul Jensen... As the computer age marches on, we jaded users tend to think of our computers as nothing more than boxes full of wires, chips and flashing lights. We forget that amidst the circuitry, computers have feelings too. This came up yesterday during a routine call ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2009

    The Matrix

    This from our IT maestro Paul Jensen... As the computer age marches on, we jaded users tend to think of our computers as nothing more than boxes full of wires, chips and flashing lights. We forget that amidst the circuitry, computers have feelings too. This came up yesterday during a routine call ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2008

    "What is the deal with a browser called 'Safari'?"

    This from our IT maestro Paul Jensen... As the computer age marches on, we jaded users tend to think of our computers as nothing more than boxes full of wires, chips and flashing lights. We forget that amidst the circuitry, computers have feelings too. This came up yesterday during a routine call ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 29, 2007

    Looking Up

    Concrete, glass, steel, and egos

  • Film

    November 22, 2006

    Bobby

    Opens at Metro and other theaters, Thurs., Nov. 23. Rated R. 118 minutes.

  • News

    September 13, 2006

    Buzz

    The Weekly names a new editor-in-chief.

  • Arts

    July 6, 2005

    The Beat of a Different Drummer

    The mechanically minded Trimpin makes his own way in the world of music and art.

  • News

    April 27, 2005

    Visit a Computer Junkyard

    April 27-May 3, 2005.

  • Arts

    March 30, 2005

    Help Wanted

    April 27-May 3, 2005.

  • Film

    March 23, 2005

    Dot the I

    Also: Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine, In My Country, Marrying the Mafia, The Nomi Song, Paper Clips, and Walk on Water.

  • News

    September 29, 2004

    Citizen Microsoft

    It's time we stopped acquiescing to the behemoth in Redmond, because what's good for big business isn't necessarily good for Washington.

  • News

    June 23, 2004

    Starry-Eyed Enterprise

    Maybe it's another eccentric indulgence, but what if Paul Allen's little space program really takes off?

  • Arts

    August 27, 2003

    VISUAL ARTS CALENDAR

    Maybe it's another eccentric indulgence, but what if Paul Allen's little space program really takes off?

  • News

    July 23, 2003

    Redefining Microsoft

    Like it or not, the company that aspires to innovate is tied to the PC.

  • Arts

    October 16, 2002

    Very Briefly Noted

    Short reviews of books of shorts.

  • Film

    September 25, 2002

    Bend Over

    Maggie Gyllenhaal turns both cheeks in winningly sweet, nervy S&M love story.

  • News

    October 31, 2001

    Trenches to troughs

    Maggie Gyllenhaal turns both cheeks in winningly sweet, nervy S&M love story.

  • News

    March 21, 2001

    Download with caution

    Digital rights management may be the key to turning content into cash, but consumers should be wary.

  • News

    January 10, 2001

    A spaced oddity

    Digital rights management may be the key to turning content into cash, but consumers should be wary.

  • News

    September 13, 2000

    A sporting chance

    Digital rights management may be the key to turning content into cash, but consumers should be wary.

  • News

    May 10, 2000

    Those three little words

    ILOVEYOU: a search-and-destroy mission on the Internet's psyche.

  • Music

    December 1, 1999

    David Byrne's new attitude

    ILOVEYOU: a search-and-destroy mission on the Internet's psyche.

  • News

    September 22, 1999

    To Bill, with thanks

    ILOVEYOU: a search-and-destroy mission on the Internet's psyche.

  • News

    June 30, 1999

    Internet Appleiance

    What the iMac really is—and what it means for Apple.

  • Music

    June 23, 1999

    Astro-elaborate

    The cyber-tastic Man or Astro-Man? explores indie-rock's final frontier.

  • Film

    March 31, 1999

    Cyberfluff

    All style and no substance. So what?

  • News

    September 23, 1998

    Arresting the Web

    People used to blame the messenger for bad news. Now they blame the medium.

  • News

    May 27, 1998

    Son of spam

    People used to blame the messenger for bad news. Now they blame the medium.

  • News

    April 29, 1998

    DIE! Microsoft, DIE!

    Redmond's day of reckoning is coming, and you read it here first.

  • News

    March 18, 1998

    Finding MS-God

    Redmond's day of reckoning is coming, and you read it here first.

  • News

    February 25, 1998

    Submerging channels

    Redmond's day of reckoning is coming, and you read it here first.

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