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Seattle U, Crosscut and the Vanishing Point

Four days unplugged? LOL ... RU crazy? not for a dozen communications students at Seattle University who recently attempted a 96-hour "media deprivation" experiment. This...

Starbucks Extra Shot: Free Wi-Fi

Starbucks has decided to change Wi-Fi flavors, switching from the pay-as-you-go T-Mobile HotSpot relationship coffee drinkers are using now to a new alliance with...

Jobster Turns About Face with Facebook

Following a 41 percent reduction in its work force last month, Jobster has turned about face by inking a deal to become the exclusive...

Venture Status of the Union

Venture capital investments topped $1 billion in Washington last year, marking the biggest surge of private investment money in the state since the dot-com...

Ya-Who? Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion

In the 2008 Internet advertising chess match, a 3-D chess game according to Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer, the Redmond juggernaut has made a bold,...

Nintendo News Feed, Microsoft Search Charity

Rabid video gamers got some help keeping in touch with the outside world this weekend as Nintendo Co. launched an online news service through...

Film. Paint and Dentsu

Seattle’s RealNetworks has launched a new film and entertainment news site, Film.com, featuring film previews, movie trailers, DVD releases, and coverage of television programming...

Peusing Perooz, Redfin and Expedia

Seattle-based Perooz.com is ascending the cusp of mobile entertainment stardom by importing print-zines and a medley of other content to the portable iPod, and...

Google, UW and the Universe

In a move of inter-galactic proportions, the planet’s leading search engine has announced a partnership with the University of Washington, among others in academia,...

Viva Las CES

The annual Consumer Electronics Show has become the bellwether for high tech bets and bluffs for the year ahead. Once again this year, Bill...