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Seattle Local News 1.0 (Mobile)

Seattle Local News provides access to all the top news sites for the city of Seattle, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. Current sites includes Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Puget Sound, Business Journal, NBC Seattle - KING, ABC Seattle - KOMO, CBS Seattle...

Tags: Mobile, Seattle, Martian Technology LLC, Seattle Local News, Current Site, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-08-21

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Update: Collecting bad stories about Ticketmaster

It's like the mobA while ago, there was a "government inquiry" into Ticketmaster and their practices. The newspapers read like it was the mob against the government. And the inquiry just went away. Without government proactively acting to protect us, we are at the mercy of big, greedy...

Tags: Vertical industries, box-office, Ticketmaster Corp., government

Discussion threads 2009-10-06

Seattle Local News Free 1.0 (Mobile)

Seattle Local News Free provides quick access to all the top news sites for the great city of Seattle, including many that are specially formatted for the iPhone or iPod Touch screen. The current sites include Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Puget Sound Business Journal, NBC Seattle - KING, ABC Seattle...

Tags: Mobile, Seattle, Martian Technology LLC, Seattle Local News Free, Smart Phones, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-18

Is Michael Jackson telling us not to use Google Apps?

Michael Jackson, of course, isn't telling us much of anything anymore. However, when news of his death brought Internet news sites to a crawl and hurt traffic Internet-wide, one has to worry about the effects of serious traffic spikes on cloud-based, mission-critical applications. A fire at...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Michael Jackson, Internet, Cloud Computing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-04

Would your students hand over their passwords to Bozeman?

The first question most people probably asked when this story broke last week was "Where the hell is Bozeman?" As it turns out, I was born in Bozeman, Montana. I didn't stay there long since my dad finished up his graduate work at Montana State University and moved us...

Tags: Job, Password, Bozeman, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-20

Amazon now one-third of all U.S. e-commerce, analyst says

Amazon now one-third of all U.S. e-commerce, analyst saysWow..... 1/3 of all U.S. e-commerceNo wonder they are having problems with their website going down on occasion and especially during the holiday season.I don't know..... 1/3 of all U.S. e-commerce.... is that getting close to a monopoly? Or is there someone...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Personal finance, Web technology, Sales strategy, tax, Amazon.com Inc., sales tax, e-business, eBay Inc., sales

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Crying Wolff? News As We Knew It Dies -- In 8 Years.

Leave it to YouTube to defend "the idea of news" and a Vanity Fair media columnist and online news aggregator to put a deadline of eight years on its demise. Two newspapers in two different two-newspaper towns Seattle and Denver have died in the last month. Journalists...

Tags: News, Corporate Communications, Portals, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Internet, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-03-18

The Seattle P-I bites the dust

I'm from Seattle, so this story caught my attention. For quite some time, Seattle had two daily papers, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Seattle Times. The Post-Intelligencer, or the P-I as it's called, is actually Seattle's oldest business and has been publishing papers for 146 years. No...

Tags: Student, News, Seattle, Seattle P-I, Portals, Web Technology, Web Site Development, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-16

Chinese...How's that for a 21st Century Skill?

A lot of folks are surprised when I tell them I took Japanese in high school. Out here on the east coast, it's not the most common language. When I tell them I'm from Seattle, it makes a bit more sense. Japanese was especially relevant in my...

Tags: Language, Language Requirement, Productivity, E-learning, Internet, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Mobile software Monday: 11 3rd party applications from the Android Market

Mobile software Monday: 11 3rd party applications from the Android MarketCall me "old fashioned" but......is this a telephone, or a GameBoy?Does anyone actually make telephone calls anymore...besides me? I would like to know how this thing performs as a telephone from someone...PLEASE.No wonder the business world is in the toilet,...

Tags: mobile, College Football, Mobile software Monday

Discussion threads 2008-10-20

News to know: Microhoo; Taming Vista UAC; iPhone; Google; CIO Sessions

Notable headlines: Ed Bott: Fixing Windows Vista, Part 2: Taming UAC. Images: Taming Vista's User Account Control right Larry Dignan: Microhoo: Wall Street gets antsy Mary Jo Foley: XP SP3 delayed by glitch New test releases...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Vista UAC, Jason O'Grady, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, 3G, Operating Systems, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Sorry, conspiracy buffs, there's no Windows "back door"

Techdirt's Mike Masnick is usually pretty reliable, but he completely blew it today, hitting the publish button on one of the sloppiest, most inflammatory stories I've seen in a long time: Microsoft Gives Vista Backdoor Keys To The Police It's long been assumed that Microsoft has...

Tags: Security, Password, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Encryption, USB, Tool, Computer, CrunchGear, USB Switchblade, Productivity, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-29

Local market prepared for digital TV transition

New York is the local television market most ready for digital TV transition, with just 3.5% unready television sets. Portland, OR is the least prepared local market, with 22.4% of all households using only analog sets and over-the-air television Market % of Over the Air Only...

Tags: Network Computer, Digital Television, Computer Associates International Inc., TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Thin Clients, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware, NB

Blog posts 2008-03-25

One+year+till+death+of+analog+TV+in+USA

One+year+till+death+of+analog+TV+in+USASo when I decide to get Cable again...I will have to get all of these items, or get a new TV. Perhaps my television set will die before then.Waste of taxpayer dollarsI predict 40% of these coupons will be used by Frys geeks to see how the converter works...

Tags: Network technology, TV & Home Theater, TVs, Broadband Internet, Best Bet, OTA, cable

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

Stupid FioS broadband tricks

Stupid FioS broadband tricksFix your typoI've had 15 kbps since the early 90's.So where is this?Those numbers are nice and all, but really of little value without knowing where you're getting this service. Little Rock, AK? Tijuana? Ontario?I thought of FIOS...But to be honest and i know this is unusual,...

Tags: Network technology, latency, broadband, Fios, cable, Kbps

Discussion threads 2007-07-13

Are you sure there's not a place for a smart watch on your wrist?

I used to wear a watch all the time while I was in the military and then I went through a phase where I just used my phone to for my timekeeping needs. MSN Direct with SPOT Smart Personal Objects Technology was launched on watches and I had the opportunity...

Tags: Microsoft, Gadgets

Blog posts 2007-06-04

When (and why) social media fails...

Im just getting back to real life after having lost power after the storm that hit Seattle last Thursday night—we got electricity last night. It was interesting to me that all the blog/social media created around the event, mostly by the various news outlets, managed to add precisely nothing to...

Tags: Blogging, social media, blog, journalism, power company

Blog posts 2006-12-18

James Kim and family missing - please help if you've seen them!

James Kim and family missing - please help if you've seen them!Very Disturbing NewsI certainly extend my best wishes to James and his family. I hope they are found safe and sound very soon. Please keep us posted on this.I hope it's all a mistake.Hopefully they are just...

Tags: Cruise-control, James Kim, side trip

Discussion threads 2006-12-01

EU: Microsoft compliance deadline a week away

EU: Microsoft compliance deadline a week awayWell, if so, it's just a counterbalance to the ABM zealots.And their whining that you're a 'tard if you use a product produced by Microsoft.Mostly right.But Microsoft did have documentation for aspects of their software that a business of Microsoft's size might be expected...

Tags: commission, compliance, Microsoft Corp., API

Discussion threads 2006-11-15

One fantasy that Bill Gates thankfully knows how to fulfill

One fantasy that Bill Gates thankfully knows how to fulfillI have anassociate named Bubba that will bust a knee cap for $500 each. Seems cheaper and more effective...M$ has two faces, DavidWhile I agree that this appears a good thing and I truly wish that M$ would use their...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., fantasy, misgiving, Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2006-11-14