City Hall: The Chief Geek has left the building
After transforming the city's information services, Bill Schrier moves into the private sector. Retirement after just 33 years? Too boring to contemplate.
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After transforming the city's information services, Bill Schrier moves into the private sector. Retirement after just 33 years? Too boring to contemplate.
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While it's not perfect, KING 5's new multi-platform app offers real time live video of its news show. Also, Comcast's illogical "TV Everywhere" policies.
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There's only one good reason to consider a new NBA basketball-NHL hockey arena in Seattle. It's the passion, stupid.
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The hedge fund manager who wants to bring the NBA and NHL to Seattle could have a real winner. We take a look at the possible millions.
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A personal email to King County Executive Dow Constantine went to dozens of people, bringing a personal situation to light.
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Two experts offer pointed suggestions on how we can protect our kids from getting lost in today's technology. Also, commercial-free TV viewing and the Xbox "pilot" rumor was true, but so what?
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Both Microsoft and Amazon are doubling down on their versions of TV in the future. Who has the better idea?
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Watch "Incendiary," anti-death penalty documentary, on the big screen in downtown Seattle, thanks to Tugg, a new online service.
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Flip Side: Stop worrying about someone stealing your miserable identity. Foist it off on some poor jerk.
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The 2012 London Olympics will be seen in full: Every sport will be televised. Also, a hard look at the Xbox as home entertainment center.
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Barnes and Noble is first to market with an e-reader with a lighted screen. Also, news about new low cost tablets, a great magazine bargain, and a real shocker of a front-runner on Internet traffic.
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There's much at stake for Microsoft, Nokia, and AT&T as the much-publicized Nokia Lumia 900 debuts this weekend.
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Microsoft is touting its mighty Xbox as the new center of home entertainment, but it may have given itself an unnecessary black eye by embracing services from Comcast and HBO that many Comcast subscribers can't access.
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A mysterious jug washed up on a Washington beach, now it's the subject of a research experiment: using crowdsourcing to fund and extend looking into its origins.
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Two major media events this weekend are accompanied by Internet games. And look what Netflix and other sites, not the studios, are cooking up in new TV programming
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New wristwatches quietly vibrate to tell you of new text messages, phone calls, tweets, and emails. You can check a snippet of text, or check the weather.
It's an embarrassment that two Democratic senators want to pass a law to punish people like Eduardo Saverin, who is so ungrateful to a country that took him in as a small child that he is now renouncing his citizenship to move to Singapore. Instead, make the country so dynamic that he will regret his departure.
Facebook has set the stock for Friday's IPO at $38 a share, which means the company and its investors could profit by as much as $18.5 billion.
It's not just Amazon anymore. Google, Zynga, Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants have been establishing offices in the Emerald City.
After more than $50 million in investments, Seattle simply turned off its free city WiFi. What gives?
Get over it!