Microsoft’s MP3 Woes and Nintendo’s WII
A federal jury's ruling that Microsoft infringed on two MP3 patents and must pay $1.52 billion in damages could turn into a major...
Seattle U, Crosscut and the Vanishing Point
Four days unplugged? LOL ... RU crazy? not for a dozen communications students at Seattle University who recently attempted a 96-hour "media deprivation" experiment.
This...
Starbucks Extra Shot: Free Wi-Fi
Starbucks has decided to change Wi-Fi flavors, switching from the pay-as-you-go T-Mobile HotSpot relationship coffee drinkers are using now to a new alliance with...
Jobster Turns About Face with Facebook
Following a 41 percent reduction in its work force last month, Jobster has turned about face by inking a deal to become the exclusive...
Venture Status of the Union
Venture capital investments topped $1 billion in Washington last year, marking the biggest surge of private investment money in the state since the dot-com...
Ya-Who? Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion
In the 2008 Internet advertising chess match, a 3-D chess game according to Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer, the Redmond juggernaut has made a bold,...
Nintendo News Feed, Microsoft Search Charity
Rabid video gamers got some help keeping in touch with the outside world this weekend as Nintendo Co. launched an online news service through...
Film. Paint and Dentsu
Seattle’s RealNetworks has launched a new film and entertainment news site, Film.com, featuring film previews, movie trailers, DVD releases, and coverage of television programming...
Peusing Perooz, Redfin and Expedia
Seattle-based Perooz.com is ascending the cusp of mobile entertainment stardom by importing print-zines and a medley of other content to the portable iPod, and...
Jennifer Hodgdon and Poplar ProductivityWare Practice Good Science and Social Science
What do AT&T's Bell Labs, Wall Street's Goldman Sachs, the "Language Bank" of the American Red Cross and Seattle's Literary Source have in common?
For...