McCaw vets building cleantech "innovation center" in Tri-Cities
McCaw Cellular veterans Wayne Perry and Cal Cannon are building an 89-acre “innovation center” in Richland, the cornerstone of a 325-acre research park that’s being developed in the Tri-Cities.
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McCaw vets building cleantech "innovation center" in Tri-Cities
If you’ve been trying to keep track of Facebook’s privacy policies, check out the ” eroding privacy policy ” timeline published by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From the privacy group’s summation: Facebook originally earned its core base of users by offering them simple and powerful controls over their personal information. As Facebook grew larger and became more important, it could have chosen to maintain or improve those controls…
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Facebook "eroding" privacy timeline, yikes
ZDNet blogger Ed Bott’s comparing Microsoft Office 2010 to Windows 7, saying it gives the productivity suite the same kind of polish and upgrade that Win7 gave to Vista. Bott’s invested in Office – he’s written 10 books on the software suite and six months using the new version launching May 12. A sample of today’s post : It is true that the core programs in Office–Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint–are mature, as befits their age
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Bott dives into Microsoft Office 2010, sees Win7 parallel
Kirkland game studio Bungie, the creator of the hit “Halo” franchise for Microsoft, today announced a mondo publishing deal that will make Activision Blizzard the exclusive publisher of its next franchise for 10 years. Bungie spent two years developing an entirely new game that will be released sometime after its “Halo” finale, “Halo: Reach” is released by Microsoft this fall. A value wasn’t placed on the deal, but the entertainment franchise at stake is likely to be worth more than $1 billion and consume millions of hours of people’s time.
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Kirkland’s Bungie signs huge post-Halo deal with Activision
Here’s an edited version of a quick interview I had with Bungie President Harold Ryan on the Kirkland studio’s new partnership with Activision Blizzard , giving the Activision exclusive rights to Bungie’s next game after “Halo: Reach.” Did Microsoft make a bid to publish your new franchise? We’ve been in discussions with Microsoft
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Q&A: Bungie chief on Activision deal, Microsoft & Sony bids
Hewlett-Packard may have the oomph to revive Palm, which it bought today for $1.2 billion , but it’s going to cost the company some good will with its No. 1 software partner. HP is jumping into the mobile OS business as Microsoft gears up to launch its great hope for the same market, Windows Phone 7, along with its own line of consumer “Kin” phones
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HP buys Palm, so much for that Windows 7 iPaq
A panel of academics, wireless executives and others headlined a public forum the FCC held in Seattle today to solicit public input on how to preserve the “Open Internet.” “Open Internet” in this case applies to the discussion of new regulations that would prevent Internet service providers from throttling their pipes or restricting any particular type of content. Someone must have hired a PR. firm because “Open Internet” is more catchy than “net neutrality,” but either way it’s still a confusing policy hairball.
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FCC "Open Internet" forum in Seattle draws a few minor jabs, cheers
A few billionaire techies are putting money into Seattle’s Qliance Medical Management , a company experimenting with direct-pay medical clinics that operate outside the usual medical insurance system. The company is announcing that it raised $6 million from Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, computer baron Michael Dell and Drew Carey, the comedian, actor and co-owner of the Seattle Sounders. Also pitching in are Second Avenue Partners, New Atlantic Ventures and Clear Fir Partners.
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Bezos, Dell and Drew Carey fund Seattle’s Qliance
One of the higher profile games out of the Seattle area next year may be ” Lord of the Rings: War in the North ,” which Bothell’s Snowblind Studios is making for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. The 2011 release was announced today by Snowblind’s parent company, Warner Brothers, and will be on the cover of PlayStation Magazine’s May edition. Warner is calling it a “mature,” epic, multiplayer action-role playing game based on the novels by J.R.R.
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New "Lord of the Rings" game from Bothell’s Snowblind
It was a lovely day to walk down the street and poke around Amazon.com’s new headquarters campus that it will begin to occupy next month . Builders working for developer Paul Allen are putting finishing touches on the centerpiece, a cluster of buildings around an open amphitheater built into the historic Van Vorst building, which used to be a stable for the Frederick & Nelson delivery horses. Approaching the facade from Boren: A path to the amphitheater/courtyard: Looking the other direction (eastward): Read more…
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Early peek at Amazon’s amazing new HQ: Pizza, pavilion and more
Move the story about Clearwire and T-Mobile USA hooking from “rumor” to “maybe.” Speaking to investors in Frankfurt today, T-Mobile Chief Executive Robert Dotson confirmed the company’s been talking to Clearwire and other companies about joint ventures that would give T-Mobile additional spectrum, Reuters reported .
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T-Mobile CEO: Talking to Clearwire about hookup
Two weeks after being sued by Apple for patent infringement, Taiwanese phone maker HTC is responding with a formal statement defending itself against the allegations. The company’s statement is a prelude to a legal response, still being drafted, that challenges the patent suit Apple filed in federal court, as well as a complaint it made to the International Trade Commission.
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HTC fires back at Apple, says it will fight lawsuits
Zillow’s hit mobile real estate search application is coming to the Android platform Thursday, the company announced. The iPhone version of the application has been downloaded more than 1 million times since it debuted last April, Zillow chief operating officer, Spencer Rascoff, said in the release.
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Zillow’s mobile app comes to Android, gets voice search
London-based mobile app seller GetJar created a stir today by releasing a study saying the mobile apps business will grow to $17.5 billion by 2012. With 4 billion-plus mobile phone users around the world, that suggests an average of $4 per user generated by mobile apps
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Mobile apps $17B market soon, app seller claims
They won’t track your body like the Xbox Project Natal , but Microsoft’s new Webcams are getting face-tracking technologies developed by the company’s advanced research group. The “TrueColor” technology tracks users’ faces, monitors exposure and adjusts the image to compensate for different lighting conditions.
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Microsoft shrinks HD Webcams, adds face tracking
Experian Hitwise is reporting that Facebook hit a big milestone and passed Google to become the most-visited U.S. Web site during the week that ended March 13. The research firm said Facebook’s share of visits grew 185 percent last week compared with the same period in 2009.
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Report: Facebook overtakes Google.com in U.S.
Susan Sigl, a Seattle venture capitalist with experience in wireless, networking, real estate and energy companies, is the new chief executive of the Washington Technology Industry Association, the group announced today. The University of Washington graduate co-founded SeaPoint Ventures after starting a housing development company and working at energy companies in Texas. Through SeaPoint, she’s helped manage startups SNAPin Software, Zumobi, Ground Truth and Ivy Corp
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WTIA hires tech investor Sigl as new CEO
Redmond game company WildTangent is pushing its “BrandBoost” ad platform into social gaming starting with Facebook hit “Tiki Farm,” where players will be able to get virtual items and premium content by watching ads instead of paying with credit cards. WildTangent is announcing a partnership with Playdom, the Silicon Valley game company behind Tiki Farm, which has up to 7 million monthly players on Facebook. “It’s going to open up the social games arena to household brands, to big brands,” said Dave Madden, WildTangent executive vice president.
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WildTangent’s ad platform gets social, signs "Tiki Farm"
Near the end of 2008, I wrote about Soshiku, a really cool web application for students to track their assignments using either SMS on their cell phones or a simple web interface. Developed by then-17-year old Andrew Schaper, the site allows users to manage classes, assignments, and even partners. Soshiku has recently launched
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Soshiku Pro – not bad for an 18-year old
Netbooks have become a bastion of K-12 tech, enabling a whole lot of kids to cheaply get their hands on a computer that, not surprisingly, also happens to fit those little hands quite nicely. However, ZDNet’s Editor-in-Chief, Larry Dignan, reported on Gartner’s and IDC’s recent predictions that the netbook market would “grow…this year and then
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Netbooks dead? Say it ain’t so, Larry!