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Posted Sat, Feb 4, 2 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
The development of a Slingbox app for Amazon's best selling device adds to its usefulness as an all-media device. The Samsung Note emerges into a tech marketplace primed for tablets.
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Posted Sat, Jan 28, 2 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
Interesting developments in smartphones, shopping apps, "cutting the cord" and reading, yes, real books.
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Posted Sat, Jan 21, 2 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
The iPad may not be everyone's work machine, but it still dreams bigger than any other tablet on the market.
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Posted Thu, Jan 19, 2 a.m.
By Peter Miller
A bookseller casts his eye about for clues to our times, based on the year's taste in calendars and books and decades and Steve Jobs.
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Posted Wed, Jan 18, 2 a.m.
By Eric Scigliano
Amazon makes an ambitious move into publishing, print as well as digital. It's snagging both obscure and bestselling authors. This means more alternatives for readers and scribblers -- for now, anyway.
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Posted Thu, Jan 12, 3:45 p.m.
By Skip Ferderber
So many innovations at the Las Vegas electronics show, but a lust in my heart for only a few.
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Posted Sat, Jan 7, 2 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
Showing off one's apps is a major pleasure for smartphone and tablet owners. Here's this writer's list of his top Android tablet apps.
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Posted Sat, Dec 31, 2 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
With PlayOn and PlayLater installed on your computer, you can watch and record scads of TV shows and movies, then watch them on your smartphone or tablet anywhere. And yes, it's legal.
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Posted Sun, Dec 25, 2 a.m.
By Knute Berger
"Idea Man" is more nuanced than its publicity would have you think, revealing an intense but eclectic thinker who attacks his passions, admits his failures, and hopes to change the future.
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Posted Fri, Dec 23, 2 a.m.
By Eric Scigliano
Northeast Seattleites are cooking up momentum for a simple, cost-efficient technology that stops deforestation, greenhouse emissions, and lethal cookfire smoke. Why doesn't it get more respect elsewhere?
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Posted Sat, Dec 17, 2 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
Google finally gets its Google TV software right - making the prematurely terminated Logitech Revue one of technology's liveliest corpses.
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Posted Wed, Dec 14, 2 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
The Xbox as the center of your home TV entertainment system? Here's our view.
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Posted Sat, Dec 10, 2 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
Despite some horrendous stumbles, tablets are already being used by 30 percent of all Americans. This writer's choice of personal tablet may surprise you.
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Posted Wed, Dec 7, 12:35 p.m.
By Skip Ferderber
A new app makes it possible for you to buy ebooks from your local independent book sellers. The owner of the Seattle Mystery Bookshop offers his thoughts.
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Posted Wed, Nov 30, noon
By Skip Ferderber
The company sets new sales record during cyber weekend. Meanwhile, where's Microsoft's tablet, and is it too late? Also, a great new Google Maps feature, and cable flunks a consistency test.
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Posted Thu, Nov 24, 8 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
Too bad those colonists who celebrated their first Thanksgiving on American soil didn't have credit cards, especially on the day after that first Turkey Day.
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Posted Sat, Nov 19, 10:03 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
Seattle's largest cable provider wants to be the nation's largest movie/TV show owner, and is updating your cable box to bring it all home.
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Posted Wed, Nov 16, 12:55 p.m.
By Skip Ferderber
Mayor McGinn and the UW promote more broadband coverage; Microsoft holds its annual stockholders confab; and thePlatform explains what the heck it does.
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Posted Sat, Nov 12, 2 a.m.
By Skip Ferderber
It's down to the wire with the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet delivering their new multimedia ereaders next week
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Posted Fri, Nov 4, 3:10 p.m.
By Skip Ferderber
Amazon, Samsung, and, presumably, Barnes and Noble go mano a mano this month with tablet releases.
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Technology Blog posts
Posted Sat, Nov 5, 11:48 p.m.
2011
by
Knute Berger
As Seattle prepares to celebrate 50 years as the little expo city that could, the chance for a future fair in the USA is a long way off.
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Posted Mon, Oct 24, 9:15 p.m.
2011
by
Matt Rosenberg
A new effort, Mapping Our Voices for Equality, has grown out of federal efforts to involve more communities in promoting healthy foods and preventing the dangers associated with smoking.
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Posted Thu, Oct 20, 2 a.m.
2011
by
Eric Scigliano
The study also found that online reviews seem to help independent restaurants take a larger share of the overall market from chain operations.
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Posted Mon, Oct 10, 11 a.m.
2011
by
Pete Jackson
1492 and all that; the Vancouver editor who launched Occupy Wall Street; Westneat does Westlake; legacies of Prohibition in the liquor initiatives; and more praise for Steve Jobs' aesthetic sense amid all America's ugliness.
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Posted Fri, Oct 7, 10:19 p.m.
2011
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Skip Ferderber
We assess the subdued introduction this week of the Apple iPhone 4S in view of the passing of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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Posted Fri, Sep 30, 10:17 p.m.
2011
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Skip Ferderber
Amazon has upturned the tablet market with its new Kindle Fire color tablet, forcing companies and the public alike to rethink the tablet's role
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Posted Wed, Sep 28, 10:25 a.m.
2011
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Skip Ferderber
After a year of teasing, Amazon finally reveals the Fire, a $199 color tablet with all the Amazon books, movies, TV shows, music, and apps you can eat.
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Posted Tue, Sep 27, 2 a.m.
2011
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Skip Ferderber
It's not a dance craze; it's Amazon's more than passing resemblance to Apple as it's about to introduce its new iPad-killing tablet; or that's what we think they're doing.
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Posted Sat, Sep 24, 10:03 a.m.
2011
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Skip Ferderber
Despite a few hiccups, the new 4G LTE Bionic gives Seattleites the very best in smartphone equipment, power, and performance.
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Posted Sat, Sep 17, 2 a.m.
2011
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Skip Ferderber
Amazon's rumored efforts to start an "all you can eat" monthly subscription service for ebooks may be another weapon in the Seattle-based company's ongoing battles with traditional bookselling and book publishing.
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