In football, city livability rankings — and now in the cloud — San Francisco and Seattle are shaping up as fierce rivals. Who’s…
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FlightCar launches its Seattle base
FlightCar, the company that lets you make money when you leave town by renting your car out to people at the airport, has…
Read MoreT-Mobile networks start configuring themselves, thanks to Eden Rock
Eden Rock's self-optimizing network (SON) technology recognizes where the demand is highest and the coverage is most sketchy in the mobile network. It can then start growing and shrinking cells to fix those problems.…
Read MoreSprint ramps up LTE in 40 new markets, but still nothing in SF, Seattle
Sprint's LTE rollout continues on its painfully slow pace. While the carrier now boasts 4G coverage in 340 markets, there are still many glaring holes in its metropolitan city footprint.…
Read MoreLively raises $2 million as live concert space heats up
Lively wants to give concert-goers an option to catch a show of their favorite band, and then listen to a recording of that show on their way home. Investors thought that's worth $2 million.…
Read MoreWi-Fi networks can be used for spying, but that doesn’t mean they should
Seattle is asking its police department if it could use a new municipal Wi-Fi network to track its citizens. The short answer is yes, but the information it could collect is information we're freely sharing.…
Read MoreComcast backs challenger to mayor who brought gigabit broadband to Seattle
The Washington Post followed the trail of Comcast’s campaign donations in the Seattle mayoral race and discovered that the ISP was backing…
Read MoreSeattle aims to capture excess data center heat for district heating
When I hear the words “district heating,” I often think of the potential for geothermal whereby geothermal heat is captured and rather…
Read MoreWhere will T-Mobile launch LTE first? Probably in these eight cities
Thanks to OpenSignal's crowdsourced testing app, we're getting an early preview of where T-Mobile's LTE will go live: Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, New Orleans, New York City, San Diego, Seattle and the Bay Area.…
Read MoreT-Mobile completes iPhone-friendly upgrade in 23 cities
Chicago, Reno, and the LA burbs join Atlanta, Minneapolis and Seattle as the newest areas of the country where an iPhone will work on T-Mobile's 3G network. T-Mo is now about one-third of the way from completing its nationwide HSPA+ overhaul.…
Read MoreSeattle is the latest city to go around ISPs to get a gigabit network
Seattle will join Chicago, Kansas City, Bruistol, Tenn. and other cities with its very own gigabit broadband network. The proposed plan would see a mix of fiber-to-the-home, mobile broadband and gigabit point-to-point wireless services. The city will partner with Gigabit Squared to make it happen.…
Read MoreDoxo wants to take the paperwork out of healthcare
The healthcare industry is one step closer to going paperless. Doxo, the Seattle-based startup that makes "digital file cabinet" software, has signed up a number of major healthcare providers who will now use the system to send medical bills and collect patient fees online.…
Read MoreVerizon, Comcast double team AT&T in Bay Area battle
The country’s largest mobile operator and largest cable provider bringing their "quadruple play" service to San Francisco and the Bay Area, jointly marketing Comcast residential TV and broadband and Verizon mobile service. In the process, they’re poking a needle in the eye of mutual enemy AT&T.…
Read MoreAmazon move has Boston-Cambridge in a tizzy
If Amazon opens an office in the Boston-Cambridge area as reported, it would boost a high-tech community that often feels overlooked and undervalued compared to Silicon Valley and Seattle. Amazon is recruiting engineers for an as-yet-unannounced Boston area venue slated to open in 2012.…
Read MoreFacebook brewing something “awesome” in Seattle
Is Facebook's long-awaited iPad application finally set to launch? Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly said the company plans to "launch something awesome" next week. The new product was developed entirely at Facebook's Seattle office, the company's only engineering outfit outside of its Silicon Valley headquarters.…
Read MoreThe Mill brings an informal coworking option to Seattle
When Jana and Keith Harper returned to Seattle a few months ago, after spending a couple of years in New York City, they decided that they wanted to create a coworking space. The Mill, their new business, was up and running in less than two weeks.…
Read MoreCLEAR 4G Mobile Service: Convenience at a Price
The folks at CLEAR (formerly Clearwire) kindly sent me their latest 4G WiMAX modem to try out, so I've been testing it here in Seattle and on a weekend train trip to Portland.…
Read MoreNewTeeVee Seattle Meetup Next Monday!
Liz and I will be in Seattle next week, and we’re hoping you can come out and have a drink with us…
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