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- Now I know we're in a recession
- OK, this has nothing to do with Ed Tech. Not a thing. There's no tie-in, no hidden message for us Ed Techers, just a feeling of impending doom. Fortune is reporting that Starbucks is closing 600 stores. I'll let that sink in. ...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., Seattle, Food & Beverage, Construction, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Gates' tearful good-bye
- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says farewell to company employees at a town hall meeting Friday in Redmond, Wash. Gates is stepping down from full-time work to focus on his philanthropic efforts.
- Tags: News, bill gates, steve ballmer, microsoft, windows, seattle, redmond
- Videos 2008-06-27
- Bill Gates on the origin of PC clones
- At the 20th anniversary of the PC event in 2001, Gates and Compaq founder Rod Canion reflected on the events that created the modern PC business.
- Tags: PC, Desktops, Hardware, News, bill gates, microsoft, steve ballmer, george clooney, bono, u2, CES 2008, seattle
- Videos 2008-06-27
- Video: Bill Gates' last day
- At CES 2008, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates and some of his closest friends debuted a comical look at what life would be like as Bill's last day approaches. Many of entertainment's biggest heavyweights, such as Bono from U2, actor George Clooney, and director Steven Spielberg, got some laughs...
- Tags: Video, Corporate Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, News, bill gates, microsoft, steve ballmer, george clooney, bono, u2, CES 2008, seattle
- Videos 2008-06-24
- ToorCon 2008
- Nathan McFeters: Pics of ToorCon Seattle 2008 by Nathan McFeters
- Tags: Nathan McFeters, ToorCon, Seattle, tech action
- Image galleries 2008-04-21
- Tap Water: Solution to Dirty Hands, High Drug Prices and Political Correctness
- Back in high school chemistry I was taught that water is the "universal solvent." Now it seems to be the universal solution. Tap water is now the easiest way to political correctness. Long ago I blogged here about the pending demise of bottled water and its plastic...
- Tags: Beverage, London, Seattle, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- Ideas for organizing your media
- Several new projects and ideas emerged from Microsoft's TechFest 2008 to help streamline people's media intake. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi has some of the highlights from the event, including a political blog aggregator and an application that can search your music library.
- Tags: techfest 2008, microsoft, music players, search engine, translation, bill gates, seattle, redmond
- Videos 2008-03-18
- Hands-on mapping from Microsoft
- Imagine a mobile device with front and back touch-screen sensitivity to better navigate a map. What about a software program that allows you to plot your journeys and share them with a friend? CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi reports on two mapping ideas that debuted at Microsoft's Techfest 2008 in Redmond,...
- Tags: techfest 2008, microsoft, maps, kara tsuboi, redmond, seattle
- Videos 2008-03-14
- Touring Microsoft's science fair
- Walking around TechFest 2008, Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie talks to News.com's Ina Fried about the latest from Redmond's labs and where the company is placing its bets these days.
- Tags: microsoft techfest 2008, redmond, seattle, bill gates, steve ballmer, ina fried, research and development
- Videos 2008-03-11
- Photos: Gearing up for World Cyber Games
- More than 700 gamers from 75 countries will gather in Seattle this week for the grand finals of the World Cyber Games. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Gamer, Seattle, Games, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-03
- Rolling walls of boiling mud, is Microsoft prepared?
- This is especially bad news for folks working at Microsoft, Nike, Amazon and other places located near the base of active American volcanoes. Not good news for Naples or central Mexico either.A British disaster expert says global warming could set off more volcanic activity and major earthquakes. Sort...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Wall, Seattle, rnrnThis, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-08-22
- A-Gnomedexing we will go
- I'll be at Chris Pirillo's Gnomedex Conference in Seattle later this week. Look me up if you are there. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing my old friend, Robert Steele, who is the foremost thinker on open source and collective intelligence in the world. Robert is speaking on Friday morning....
- Tags: Seattle, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Photos: Rolling across America at '10 MPH'
- Filmmakers hit the road again, this time for screenings of their documentary chronicling a cross-country ride on a Segway.Josh Caldwell, along with close friend Hunter Weeks, filmed the feature-length documentary 10 MPH, which depicts a 2004 transcontinental Segway journey from Seattle to Boston. Caldwell had the honor of actually riding...
- Tags: photograph, Josh Caldwell, Segway, MPH, Hunter Weeks, documentary, Seattle, Boston, honor, Idaho, Kansas, Dallas, Chicago, movie, America, director, software company, software
- Image galleries 2007-08-07
- Seattle MyBus Watcher (widget)
- The MyBus Watcher allows you to see when buses are arriving at any Metro Bus location around Seattle. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Seattle, MyBus Watcher
- Software downloads 2007-08-01
- Images: American mass consumption, by the numbers
- Seattle photographer Chris Jordan has created a series of images that examine modern American culture through the "austere lens of statistics."
- Tags: Seattle, image
- Image galleries 2007-05-17
- Photos: At Microsoft's SAS, it all 'ads' up
- Bill Gates makes the case for Microsoft's online technologies to crowd of advertisers at the company's Strategic Account Summit in Seattle.
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Seattle, SAS Institute, Bill Gates, advertiser, photograph, advertisement
- Image galleries 2007-05-08
- Photos: Gates rocks the Zune's debut
- At a lunchtime concert in Seattle, Microsoft's chairman hobnobs with rockers and bequeaths his demo device to an audience member.
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, chairman, Seattle
- Image galleries 2006-11-14
- Photos: Autumn in Redmond
- The fall colors were on full display at Microsoft's corporate campus in the Seattle suburbs.
- Tags: photograph, Microsoft Corp., Redmond, Seattle
- Image galleries 2006-11-10
- Photos: Critical Massive's yearn to burn
- Seattle's version of the Burning Man festival might not have desert heat, but the fire performers did show up.
- Tags: festival, Seattle
- Image galleries 2006-06-26
- Photos: Critical Massive's yearn to burn
- Seattle's version of the Burning Man festival might not have desert heat, but the fire performers did show up.
- Tags: festival, Seattle
- Image galleries 2006-06-26
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