Subject: Technology Sector

• Len Bosack's Got the Fiber Hookup

  May 20, 2008

• Best Buy Swallows Speakeasy

  March 27, 2007

• New Hire: Josh Feit

  April 1, 2008

• The Golden Compass

  July 1, 2008

• Data Unbound

  September 24, 2003

• 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 mobile devices, but the roll-out of Windows Mobile 6.5 is supposed to change all that. As Gizmodo here adds, handset maker LG is embracing Win-Mo with a vengeance, promising to offer 50 new MSFT-equipped

  February 16, 2009

• The Matrix

  January 21, 2009

• More is less

  January 17, 2001

• Low-Cost Digital TV Converters Available Friday

  You may recall how, despite the imminent shift to digital TV, many stores aren't carrying low-cost digital TV converters. Well, if you're among those in possession of a government coupon for a converter, Friday's your chance to get hooked up. Local group Reclaim the Media is teaming up with several other local groups and the Dish Network to distribute converters and provide assistance with the transition to digital TV. Press Release with details on where to get the converters after the jump:

  June 3, 2009

• Paul Allen vs. Google?

  January 9, 2008

• Looking Up

  Concrete, glass, steel, and egos

  August 29, 2007

• The Seattle Oil Tycoon

  An update of Paul Allen's world: pipelines, insurance, and maybe some bankruptcy.

  April 19, 2006

• Pocket Jukebox

  November 24, 2004

• Found Money

  May 26, 2004

• Thanks For The Digitally Enhanced Memories

  November 19, 2003

• Wherefore and Wi-Fi

  June 18, 2003

• (PC - P) + E = CE

  January 29, 2003

• Ventures: Wipeout

  January 8, 2003

• Qwest Mess

  July 31, 2002

• Toxic computers

  March 27, 2002

• News Clips— Needle Exchange

  November 14, 2001

• Wired but wireless

  May 30, 2001

• The Browser

  April 4, 2001

• Start-ups and shut downs

  August 16, 2000

• We're only in it for the money

  June 7, 2000

• How broad is your bandwidth?

  March 1, 2000

• Alexa, DoubleClick: private, shmivate

  February 23, 2000

• High-tech companies discover the Old Economy

  February 23, 2000

• Best of the rest

  January 5, 2000

• Enlightened exploitation

  November 24, 1999

• Patently mine

  November 3, 1999

• Money for nothing?

  October 13, 1999

• Where did you go today?

  May 12, 1999

• AD NAUSEAM?

  April 21, 1999

• Campaign 2000.com

  April 14, 1999

• Virtual roller coaster

  March 31, 1999

• Don't touch that dial

  January 13, 1999

• Dialing for digits

  November 18, 1998

• An industry divided

  May 20, 1998

• Vive la differFrance

  May 6, 1998

• Drag-and-shop

  April 1, 1998

• Submerging channels

  February 25, 1998

• The Dow of Shrooms

  Within four days of shopping at the market, I saw the price of morels and porcinis fluctuate more than Apple stock on a Jobs death watch. The four day high for morels came to $40 per pound on Thursday, though that may have been pay back to me from the vendor who I made cut my porcinis in half on Tuesday. (The bigger and damper the porcini, the more you have to worry about worms. Worms!) Sunday found morels at an all-spring low at Frank's Produce, $20 per pound, down from $26 per pound mid week

  June 15, 2009

• NYT Lauds Seattle E-Waste Efforts

  Americans are scrapping their pre-digital TV sets in astonishing numbers, and Seattle is at the vanguard of the e-waste movement. As The New York Times reports, local companies like tech salvage shop RE-PC and commercial recycling operation Total Reclaim are doing booming business. We reported on the phenomenon a little over a year ago, when the FCC deadline for digital TV conversion was looming. (It was then pushed back to June of this year.) And, recession or no, people are still upgrading com

  June 30, 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 will be the search engine on Yahoo sites. Yahoo will keep 88% of the ad revenue, but Microsoft will keep the data on users' search and purchase habits, which is the real value, as that's what enables th

  July 29, 2009

• This Day in History: Microsoft Bails Out Apple

  Uncle Bill got a chilly welcome from Apple's shareholders​It was August 6, 1997, Microsoft was being sued by the federal government, and Apple was struggling. No one had even heard of an iPod. Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced to the company's shareholders that Microsoft was buying $150 million in non-voting shares of Apple stock, and guaranteeing to support Office for the Mac for five years. In exchange, Apple agreed to drop a lawsuit against Microsoft and to make Internet Explorer the defau

  August 6, 2009

• CD Reviews: Soul Kata and Ramona Falls

  August 19, 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 joke." And why is that? "The bigger reason seems to be that in January 2000, [Bill] Gates stepped down as CEO. It's been downhill ever since." No, really? So tell us how you feel about Ballmer. "He's

  October 30, 2009

• T-Mobile Service Currently Down: Ominous Sign for Mallahan?

  Mallahan makes use of more reliable communication technology at the REVERB debate than his cellular company's.​Being a T-Mobile subscriber, and being surrounded by a handful of T-Mobile subscribers here on Western Avenue, I can confirm that, presently, T-Mobile service is on the fritz. And that's never happened--not to me, at least, and not within the city limits. If ever there were an ominous sign for the election-night fortunes of a certain former T-Mobile "Vice President of Customer Del

  November 3, 2009

• Did T-Mobile Outage Hurt Joe Mallahan?

  FlickrHere's one Mallahan promotional tool that never loses service.​Some thought it was just a bad omen. But TechFlash's John Cook says that maybe, just maybe, T-Mobile's massive election-day outage was enough to swing the mayoral race in Mike McGinn's favor. Here's the gist of Cook's admittedly "far-fetched" theory: Most Seattle voters had probably already mailed in their ballots by the time T-Mobile's service went screwy around 2:30 PM. But it's a close race. So if enough people got pi

  November 4, 2009