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Washington state attorney general Rob McKenna has joined a federal anti-trust lawsuit to block the merger between AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile. The attorney general argues that T-Mobile’s plans have typically cost less per month than comparable AT&T plans, and the merger raises “serious concerns” about higher prices for consumers. Furthermore, the high level of market concentration among Seattle, Tacoma and Spokane would become particularly [...]
Ten years ago Charles Brennick returned from Costa Rica with a desire to help underserved communities around the world gain access to technology and the Internet. Starting with a handful of volunteers and his laptop, he created InterConnection. Today, the organization has shipped more than 25,000 computers to organizations in 40 different countries and given [...]
If the Internet is a community of communities, Seattle is the hub of the wheel! The many spokes, the A-Z of industry leaders, from Amazon to Zillow, are well-known. Lesser known are the associations and networking groups that weave their threads throughout the social fabric: the Northwest Internet Advertising Group, TechStars, Gnomedex, BizNik, and Seattle [...]
by Larry Sivitz The Seattle Social Media Club closed out its summer season by closing the generation gap. The Gen-Z gap in fact! The teachable moment and the marketing momentum even featured a “Champion” for social change. She is Lockerz’ CEO Kathy Savvit. “I’m a little bit of an odd story to be a [...]
Amazon.com has reached a tentative agreement with California lawmakers to resolve a battle over online sales tax. Under the agreement, Amazon will drop its push to repeal an online sales tax in the state, and agree to begin collecting sales taxes from sales to residents in the state a year from now, according to reports by Bloomberg News and the San [...]
Claiming the proposed $39 billion acquisition of Bellevue-based T-Mobile by AT&T would substantially lessen competition, putting 90 percent of the wireless market in the hands of three companies: AT&T, Verizon Wireless, and Sprint (or a “duopoly” given Sprint’s tiny market share), and a move that would create a “GSM network monopoly” of the international GSM standard to AT&T [...]
Group Health Cooperative, Seattle’s consumer-governed, nonprofit healthcare system that coordinates care and coverage, has launched a new customer-care strategy, highlighted by the development of an iPhone application, Group Health Mobile. The mobile application provides Group Health’s 650,000 members with unhindered access to their personal health information, as well as Group Health’s network of information. Group [...]
A picture may be worth a thousand words. An infographic, a thousand Web links. But the eye-catching, cryptographic portrait displayed at left (click image to enlarge) adds up to 70 different Website brands. Find them and you have a shot at a grand prize drawing if you can guess at least 50 of the brands [...]
By Larry Sivitz If knowledge is power, including the power to heal what ails us, data is its lifeblood. But when the knowledge being pursued involves the body of information buried in the massive health care industry, the Web searcher is in need of a lifeblood transfusion. Surf among the current crop of health care [...]
Seattle is poised at the leading edge of a new era of supremacy as the epicenter of Internet development. We don’t really need Scientific American magazine to tell us that Seattle is the top city for technology in the country – ahead of other tech meccas including San Francisco, Boston, New York City and Los [...]
