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  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Novell-Microsoft Lawsuit Ends In Mistrial--Bill Gates Lives to Testify Another Day

    ​A $1 billion lawsuit that saw Bill Gates dragged in front of federal judge to testify has proved too hazy for jurors to piece together. But the Microsoft-Novell saga still looks to be far from over.

  • Calendar

    December 14, 2011

    Office Space

    ​A $1 billion lawsuit that saw Bill Gates dragged in front of federal judge to testify has proved too hazy for jurors to piece together. But the Microsoft-Novell saga still looks to be far from over.

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Top 20 Supreme Court-Approved Violent Video Games

    Yo, Timmy! I got the new Amateur Abortionist game!​On Monday the United States Supreme Court ruled that video games deserve the same First Amendment protections as movies and art--effectively overturning a law in California that banned the sale of violent video games to minors. The ruling, c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Electronic Arts to Buy Seattle-Based PopCap Games for $1 Billion, Sources Say

    ​Rumor has it that local video-game maker PopCap Games (Plants vs Zombies, Bejeweled 3) is about to bought for a whopping $1 billion. That's billion. With a B. But until late last night, no one knew who the buyer was.

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    The New York Times Claims Microsoft Is the New Kodak; Facts Suggest Otherwise

    ​The New York Times editorial board took some time for a little old-fashioned Microsoft-bashing this weekend. The paper thinks that our local software giant is on its way to becoming the new Kodak: a former business and technology icon made all but obsolete by more agile companies with better ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    WSJ: Seattle Is Becoming the New Silicon Valley

    ​This may not come as news to the legions of local computer programmers who are already working for satellite hubs of companies like Facebook, Zynga and Salesforce, but Seattle is on a path to eclipse the Bay Area as America's technology hub.

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Nintendo Profits Plummet by 66 Percent, 3DS Touted as Company's Saving Grace

    ​It's easy to forget sometimes that Microsoft isn't the only major video game maker with a headquarters in Redmond. Little Nintendo (you know, the folks that pioneered video game as we know it) has its American headquarters there and has been toiling away quietly for years. Perhaps the second- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    Yahoo Blames Microsoft for Failing Business

    ​Six months ago, when Yahoo and Microsoft partnered on a search agreement that brought widespread exposure for Bing and beefed up Yahoo's search advertisements, it was supposed to be a win-win. But with Yahoo's last quarter earnings in the toilet (again), the company is now blaming Microsoft f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Google Hears Antitrust Drums Banging, Blames Microsoft as Principal Percussionist

    ​In the 1990s, Google President Eric Schmidt was working for Sun Microsystems and was part of a small but vocal group of techies who helped the federal government put the antitrust reigns on Microsoft. Now it's Google that's getting "too big for its britches" and the monopoly drums are beating ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Washington's Ban On Online Gambling May Affect Players Outside Washington

    ​Washington State's ban on internet gambling may be keeping people who don't live in Washington from playing too.

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founder, Signs on with Bill Gates to Give Away Most of His Fortune

    Child billionaire​Making it increasingly harder to hate the rich - well, some of them - Bill Gates has enticed Mark Zuckerberg, the young genius of Facebook, to join his gathering of the filthy rich who promise to give away the majority of their wealth. Zuckerberg and AOL founder Steve Case ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Microsoft Adds Anti-Tracking Software to Explorer 9, Advertisers Cry: "But We Love Spying"

    ​Most folks would likely agree that companies' abilities to track every move you make online, then custom build an advertising strategy designed to flood your cerebral cortex with uncontrollable desires to buy stuff is a bad thing. It took a while to convince Microsoft of this, but it appears ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2010

    Vashon Island Newspaper Beats New York Times to Paywall Punch With Plan to Charge for Online Content

    ​You've had a good run, Vashon and Maury Island news readers. But starting today, if you want to go online to get the kind of in-depth island reporting one can only find in the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber, you're going to have to pay.

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    CORRECTED Classmates.com Finally Surrenders to Facebook, Announces Revamped Website

    ​Update: United Online CEO Mark Goldston contacted SW over errors in this story. It has been corrected and updated, see below. This week, United Online, Classmates.com's parent company, announced that it will be getting out of the social networking game since apparently people don't want to p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2010

    Bill Gates on Google's China Stance: "They've Done Nothing and Gotten a lot of Credit For It."

    "And furthermore, these 'O' glasses are too foggy. Harumph, harumph."​Before flying to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to accept his crown as Emperor of the New World Order announce an expansion of his foundation's vaccine program, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stopped by the offices ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Signs Mac Laptop

    It's 5 p.m. on a Friday. GO HOME. But before you do, check out Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer signing the laptop of a Trevecca Nazarene University student in Nashville, Tennessee. (Hey, he's a good sport!) And for a close-up of the signature, click that little line thingy below. Have a great weekend ... More >>

  • News

    December 2, 2009

    Now Tim Eyman's Going to F**k Up Your Computer, Too

    Even the man’s software is malicious.

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    As If Tim Eyman Hasn't Done Enough Damage, Now His Web Site Can F**k Up Your Computer

    The black means he's evil...​Or so says Google. According to a "Safe Browsing" advisory from the search giant, Eyman's site, www.permanent-offense.org [don't click, for the love of humanity!], is "listed as suspicious" and "may harm your computer." It seems that destroying our state's tax b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    Newsweek's Massive F U to Ballmer

    ​Guess who's about to wake up next to a horse's severed head? Newsweek technology writer Daniel Lyons. In a blog post yesterday, which goes into print next week, he offers up some choice words for the Microsoft CEO. Some select quotes: "Instead of being scary, Microsoft has become a bit of a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    Ballmer Jumps the Shark. Or Talks About the Shark

    ​Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is a Woody Allen fan? Or a fan of sharks? We can't be sure after a long and generally flattering weekend New York Times feature on the coming launch of Windows 7. (Now only two days away! We can't contain our Win-citement!) The Ballmer quote that leaps out is this, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    Show review: Boat, Ramona Falls at the Crocodile

    ​BOAT is the sort of band that doesn't take itself too seriously. At the Crocodile on Friday, four of the Seattle band's members--two of whom were keyboard players--crowded the front of the stage during their performance. They all sang together, sometimes yelling more than singing. Everything ... More >>

  • Music

    August 19, 2009

    CD Reviews: Soul Kata and Ramona Falls

    ​BOAT is the sort of band that doesn't take itself too seriously. At the Crocodile on Friday, four of the Seattle band's members--two of whom were keyboard players--crowded the front of the stage during their performance. They all sang together, sometimes yelling more than singing. Everything ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2009

    Bada-Powered-by-Bing: Microsoft and Yahoo Finally Make a Deal

    Dude, it's made!​Steve Ballmer probably "loves this company" even more today, as Microsoft finally got its search deal with Yahoo!. (Wouldn't it be cool if, as part of the deal, Microsoft had to add an exclamation point to its name as well?) For at least the next ten years, Microsoft's Bing wi ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2009

    Scott Rosenberg

    Dude, it's made!​Steve Ballmer probably "loves this company" even more today, as Microsoft finally got its search deal with Yahoo!. (Wouldn't it be cool if, as part of the deal, Microsoft had to add an exclamation point to its name as well?) For at least the next ten years, Microsoft's Bing wi ... 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 >>

  • Calendar

    June 17, 2009

    Office Space

    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 11, 2009

    It's Hard Out Here for a Global Software Giant

    Microsoft's facing troubles all over the world. Let's review: Europe: The EU has been on Microsoft's ass for the company's bundling of its web browser with its monopoly-holding operating system--today Microsoft said it would de-bundle them. Competitor Opera says that's not enough. Russia: Ratcheti ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2009

    Jeff Samuel

    Friday, May 15

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2009

    Hearst to Charge for Content

    A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2008

    What, no Vista?

    A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2007

    Net Neutrality Teleconference at the Croc

    A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2007

    Best Buy Swallows Speakeasy

    A memo by Hearst Newspapers president Steven Swartz says the corporation's newspapers, apparently including the P-I, plan to start charging readers for some online content. The company-wide memo has been floating around the Internet a few days. But it was the Friday Wall Street Journal blog that dr ... More >>

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    Microsoft's Big Bet: Win With the Web

    Bill Gates is revamping Microsoft's core product with a souped-up, Web-linked version dubbed Windows Vista. Due later this year, it's the biggest rollout in a decade, with high-stakes implications for the company's dominance.

  • News

    June 2, 2004

    Microsoft's Sacred Cash Cow

    A former Microsoftie says addiction to Windows revenue, mediocre products, and missed opportunities could doom Seattle's most successful company.

  • News

    May 26, 2004

    Found Money

    As Microsoft and Yahoo! prepare take on Google, Seattle and UW continue to be a hotbed of Web-search innovation.

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    News Clips— Needle Exchange

    As Microsoft and Yahoo! prepare take on Google, Seattle and UW continue to be a hotbed of Web-search innovation.

  • Music

    June 14, 2000

    Whadchagit?

    As Microsoft and Yahoo! prepare take on Google, Seattle and UW continue to be a hotbed of Web-search innovation.

  • News

    March 1, 2000

    How broad is your bandwidth?

    Serving up high-speed hope to home Web surfers.

  • News

    February 23, 2000

    Alexa, DoubleClick: private, shmivate

    Serving up high-speed hope to home Web surfers.

  • News

    November 3, 1999

    Patently mine

    The US Patent office has opened the door to all kinds of new patent claims. Microsoft and Amazon are in the first test cases.

  • News

    June 30, 1999

    Internet Appleiance

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

  • News

    May 12, 1999

    Where did you go today?

    Avenue A tells advertisers what works on the Web.

  • News

    April 21, 1999

    AD NAUSEAM?

    The wide-open spaces of the Internet present advertisers with a peculiar mix of opportunity and peril.

  • News

    July 15, 1998

    Caveat surfor

    The wide-open spaces of the Internet present advertisers with a peculiar mix of opportunity and peril.

  • News

    May 20, 1998

    An industry divided

    The wide-open spaces of the Internet present advertisers with a peculiar mix of opportunity and peril.

  • News

    April 8, 1998

    Undeveloped

    The wide-open spaces of the Internet present advertisers with a peculiar mix of opportunity and peril.

  • News

    April 1, 1998

    Drag-and-shop

    The wide-open spaces of the Internet present advertisers with a peculiar mix of opportunity and peril.

  • News

    February 25, 1998

    Submerging channels

    The wide-open spaces of the Internet present advertisers with a peculiar mix of opportunity and peril.

  • News

    February 11, 1998

    Gamey

    The wide-open spaces of the Internet present advertisers with a peculiar mix of opportunity and peril.

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