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Weekend Tech Scan: Need another reason to buy a Kindle Fire?

Posted Sat, Feb 4, 2 a.m.

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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Weekend Tech Scan: Time to look at Windows phones

Posted Sat, Jan 28, 2 a.m.

Interesting developments in smartphones, shopping apps, "cutting the cord" and reading, yes, real books.

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Weekend Tech Scan: What's on your iPad? (Here's what's on mine)

Posted Sat, Jan 21, 2 a.m.

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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A bookstore's slant on the state of the land

Posted Thu, Jan 19, 2 a.m.

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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Meet the producer: Will Amazon dominate book publishing, too?

Posted Wed, Jan 18, 2 a.m.

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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3 fun tech items from the electronics show

Posted Thu, Jan 12, 3:45 p.m.

So many innovations at the Las Vegas electronics show, but a lust in my heart for only a few.

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Weekend Tech Scan: The whole Android apps truth and nothing but

Posted Sat, Jan 7, 2 a.m.

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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Weekend Tech Scan: PlayOn and PlayLater offer TV and films, no TV set needed

Posted Sat, Dec 31, 2 a.m.

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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Best of 2011: Allen takes a close look at himself and others

Posted Sun, Dec 25, 2 a.m.

"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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Solar cooking works, from sunny Brazil to Seattle

Posted Fri, Dec 23, 2 a.m.

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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Weekend tech scan: Google TV's flagship system may be dead, but it's still a great deal

Posted Sat, Dec 17, 2 a.m.

Google finally gets its Google TV software right - making the prematurely terminated Logitech Revue one of technology's liveliest corpses.

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Midweek Tech Scan: Xbox updates offer a look into the future

Posted Wed, Dec 14, 2 a.m.

The Xbox as the center of your home TV entertainment system? Here's our view.

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Weekend Tech Scan: Tablets - It's time to get one

Posted Sat, Dec 10, 2 a.m.

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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Midweek Tech Scan: can Google help save Seattle's indie bookstores?

Posted Wed, Dec 7, 12:35 p.m.

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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Midweek Tech Scan: Amazon is no turkey this holiday

Posted Wed, Nov 30, noon

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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Midweek Tech Scan: The e-reality of Thanksgiving, circa 2011

Posted Thu, Nov 24, 8 a.m.

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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Weekend Tech Scan: Comcast's Xfinity is not your father's cable anymore

Posted Sat, Nov 19, 10:03 a.m.

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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Midweek Tech Scan: Broadband for Seattle?

Posted Wed, Nov 16, 12:55 p.m.

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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Weekend Tech Scan: a tale of 2 readers (digital, of course)

Posted Sat, Nov 12, 2 a.m.

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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Weekend Tech Scan: November's 7-Inch Tablet 'Smackdown'

Posted Fri, Nov 4, 3:10 p.m.

Amazon, Samsung, and, presumably, Barnes and Noble go mano a mano this month with tablet releases.

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Technology Blog posts

No Expo for Ecotopia

Posted Sat, Nov 5, 11:48 p.m. 2011

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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Better health for all gets a digital assist

Posted Mon, Oct 24, 9:15 p.m. 2011

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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Help from Yelp: Harvard study shows online reviews boost Seattle restaurants

Posted Thu, Oct 20, 2 a.m. 2011

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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Midday Scan: Monday's top stories around the region

Posted Mon, Oct 10, 11 a.m. 2011

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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Weekend Tech Blog: Apple fritters

Posted Fri, Oct 7, 10:19 p.m. 2011

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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Weekend Tech Blog: After the Amazon Kindle Fire, the real bonfire

Posted Fri, Sep 30, 10:17 p.m. 2011

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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Yes, Amazon watchers, it's a tablet

Posted Wed, Sep 28, 10:25 a.m. 2011

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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Amazon.com: Doin' the Apple in the Big Apple?

Posted Tue, Sep 27, 2 a.m. 2011

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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Weekend Tech Blog: Verizon's new Bionic phone and Seattle. Is this love?

Posted Sat, Sep 24, 10:03 a.m. 2011

Despite a few hiccups, the new 4G LTE Bionic gives Seattleites the very best in smartphone equipment, power, and performance.

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Weekend Tech Blog: Amazon to offer a sort of Netflix for book lovers?

Posted Sat, Sep 17, 2 a.m. 2011

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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Why America needs a Zuckerberg tax Mark Zuckerberg will pay only $2 billion in taxes on the $28 billion in assets he stands to gain with Facebook's IPO this year. How to fix that.

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In Oregon, a fizzled effort to criminalize tweets The Oregonian reports, "It was dubbed the 'flash mob' bill when it got a hearing Monday at the Oregon Legislature -- a proposal to make it a felony to summon people by Twitter or email to commit a crime at a designated place."

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New nonprofit uses tech to provide personal concerts to sick kids When the new Melodic Caring Project provided a streaming concert to an 11-year-old leukemia patient in Seattle Children's, he was moved and inspired. He now practices guitar daily while staying at the Ronald McDonald House.

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Micron CEO dies in crash of light plane Steve Appleton, head of the large Boise-based chip maker, was flying an experimental plane that crashed shortly after takeoff Friday morning. He had survived a 2004 crash that was later ruled to be due to pilot error during an acrobatic maneuver.

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In China, the human cost of the iPad The New York Times reports, "the workers assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves."

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