Bloomberg News is reporting that Apple is buying music-streaming service Lala, which would give the company a platform to finally add streaming services to iTunes.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based Lala lets users hear a song once for free, and build online playlists and collections. It also sells songs with a [...]
Microsoft just disclosed how much CFO Chris Liddell will get for his last two paychecks: $1.9 million, pursuant to a "resignation agreement" they reached Dec. 1.
Liddell, who resigned Nov. 24, is getting $950,000 on Dec. 31 and another $950,000 on March 31, according to an SEC filing today.
"These payments are" [...]
Karim Varela believes he was providing a valuable public service with i-Booze.com, a liquor delivery service he started in mid 2008.
Following in the footsteps of Kozmo.com, a short-lived delivery service during the dot-com days, i-Booze took orders for beer, wine, cigarettes, snacks and other products from a Web page and [...]
Electronic Arts boss John Riccitiello told Fox Business Network that Tiger Woods is going to remain the face of his company's hit golf game, despite Woods' out-of-bounds play.
"Of course," Riccitiello said. "He's been a great partner to us."
It probably doesn't hurt that EA's "Tiger Woods PGA Tour" has [...]
A big batch of information about mobile phones and carriers is appearing in the January issue of Consumer Reports, including results of a survey ranking the top carriers in 26 U.S. cities.
Verizon is tops -- nailing customer support, voice and data service -- "but it tends to be costly," [...]
Warner Bros. messed with the wrong guy when it sent muddled royalty statements to Tim Quirk, singer for Too Much Joy, a pop band that had some traction in the 1980s and early 1990s and still sells a few downloads.
Warner wasn't saying how much the band was making from digital' [...]
Bellevue game startup Smith & Tinker is laying off about 30 percent of its employees barely a month after stores began selling a handheld player for "Nanovor," its sci-fi trading card game aimed at preteen boys.
The company now employs about 40 people after laying off 10 to 15, according to [...]
The Amazon.com veterans who started online culinary encyclopedia Foodista are getting into the book business -- the cookbook business, of course.
Today they announced a recipe contest for food bloggers, the winners of which will contribute to a cookbook the company's publishing next year.
The concept surfaced at a food blogging [...]
Akamai has fascinating dashboard showing how crazy the cyber Monday traffic has become: It's approaching 8 million visitors per minute -- 39 percent higher than normal -- at the company's sample of 270 global e-commerce sites:
[...]Google's sharing more details of its planned Chrome operating system - and the early code as well, through the Chromium open source project it announced this morning.
The company said its OS will be ready for consumers a year from now and invited developers to help finish the project.
Google's' [...]
Airtight Games debut title, "Dark Void," doesn't go on sale until January but it just hit one out of the park.
Publisher Capcom just announced that movie star Brad Pitt's production company bought Dark Void's film rights and are developing it "as a sci-fi action franchise and potential starring vehicle for'" [...]
Seattle 2.0's monthly list of Web startups has one significant change this month - 17 new companies appeared in October, compiler Marcelo Calbucci reports.
The list gets an average of six new companies a month but startup activity has picked up in the last four months, he said.
New startups [...]
The Microsoft Alumni Foundation awarded its first "Integral Fellows" awards to three nonprofits started by company alumni.
Each receives a $25,000 grant "as well as access to the talents and skills of alumni to help support their ongoing efforts."
Winners include Patrick Awuah, founder of Ashesi University in Ghana; Trish [...]
The Washington Technology Industry Association held its annual predictions dinner tonight at the Grand Hyatt in Seattle, with a group of tech entrepreneurs and investors sharing a few thoughts on what may happen in 2010.
Speakers include Greg Gottesman, managing director of Madrona Venture Group; Bill Bryant, venture partner at [...]
Apparently $30 was a magic number for some Microsoft stock holders, including a few longtime executives who cashed in stock options that are finally in the money.
Senior Vice President Bob Muglia flipped 922,422 shares that have been exercisable since February 2006.
Muglia bought them for $25.14 and sold them today and [...]
When a team of sound engineers at Microsoft Game Studios needed sounds of a squealing, skidding and revving Tesla Roadster, they didn't have to look far.
Deputy General Counsel Tom Burt just happens to commute in Roadster No. 203 and volunteered his ride for a day.
Burt filed the details in a' [...]
This is a little spooky: The National Security Agency worked with Microsoft to "enhance" the security of Windows 7.
From Computerworld's report:
"Working in partnership with Microsoft and elements of the Department of Defense, NSA leveraged our unique expertise and operational knowledge of system threats and vulnerabilities to enhance Microsoft's operating" [...]
Not because Amazon.com is getting into the grocery business, but because both are tied in a poll running through Thursday for MarketWatch's CEO of the Year.
It's a dead heat between Webmeister Bezos and Whole Foods Chief Executive John Mackey, who also knows his way around an online forum [...]
Google is apparently trying to steal some thunder from Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference this week by releasing more details of its Chrome operating system.
So far the Chrome OS has been mostly FUD since it was announced in July but that may change at a Thursday press event where [...]
You can't say "some people have all the luck" when you see Paul Allen's mansion on the shore of Mercer Island, his airplanes, superyachts and vast land holdings in Seattle.
The son of a Seattle librarian became one of the richest people in the world when he and childhood pal Bill' [...]
While PC users were upgrading to Windows 7 and quad-core processors this fall, Cray and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge, Tenn., lab upgraded an XT5 supercomputer nicknamed "Jaguar" to more than 224,000 processing cores.
That boosted the Jag to more than two petaflops of computer power and Top 500 list, [...]
I wish I'd had this study in hand for today's column on the decline of free content and other Web freebies coming in 2010:
More than half of consumers are willing to pay for news online, according to a new report from the Boston Consulting Group that's likely to' [...]
A British game magazine has details of Microsoft's highly anticipated Project Natal accessory for the Xbox, leaked apparently by British game developers and studios who were briefed by the company.
They passed on that Microsoft plans to release the motion-sensing input device and Xbox controller in November 2010, with [...]
A few more details have emerged about Google's plan to offer free Wi-Fi at SeaTac and 46 other airports through the holidays.
First, SeaTac's service is delayed for a week while a contract issue is sorted out with AT&T, the current Wi-Fi provider.
Google spokesman Andrew Pederson said SeaTac should get [...]
Google's bringing a free perk to 47 airports around the country, offering free WiFi service during the busy holidays. At SeaTac -- homeport for competitors Microsoft and Amazon -- the freebie will continue "indefinitely."
"We're very happy to extend our Holiday Wi-Fi gift to the millions of people who will'" [...]
Amazon.com Tuesday announced a free version of its Kindle reader software for Windows PCs, a big step toward Jeff Bezos' goal of getting the software on all sorts of devices.
With the mini-bookstore loaded on your computer, you can buy Kindle versions of books from Amazon and access your' [...]
Here's a video of the conversation I had last night with Ken Auletta at the downtown Seattle library - talking about Auletta's new book, "Googled: The End of the World as we Know It" in the Microsoft Auditorium.
Auletta shared tidbits from his extensive interviews with Google founders and executives, [...]
A quick update from Urbanspoon: The Seattle-based restaurant finder/reservation service has released a version of its hit mobile app for the BlackBerry.
To spin its restaurant slot machine, you can shake a BlackBerry Storm - just like an iPhone - but on other Bberries you have to hit the [...]
Maybe Digeo's Moxi DVR has a chance after all.
The Kirkland company on Tuesday is cutting the price of its high-end digital video recorder from $799 to $499 and adding a new model with three tuners.
A price cut was desperately needed for Moxi more competitive with TiVo and Windows Media' [...]
As mentioned in today's column on the Motorola Droid and the new book "Googled," I'll be interviewing author Ken Auletta tonight at the downtown Seattle library at 7 p.m.
Auletta has also talked to KUOW and Microsoft employees during his visit.
We'll post a video of tonight's talk afterward.
In the meantime, [...]
Redmond isn't the only place feeling the pain of Microsoft job cutbacks.
The software company is also putting the brakes on hiring in India this year, according to a report in the Business Standard.
"There will be no significant hiring," Microsoft India Chairman Ravi Venkatesan said during the India Economic' [...]
Kirkland 4G broadband provider Clearwire announced more executive changes today, including the addition of new strategy and marketing bosses.
David Maquera, former senior VP at Cricket Communications/Leap Wireless, is SVP and chief strategy officer reporting to CEO Bill Morrow.
Clearwire also hired Thomas Enraght-Moony, a former AT&T Wireless exec and Match.com CEO, [...]
A social network for mothers wanting to learn more about new technology and online safety is coming together offline Friday, when Wired Moms holds its first conference in Redmond at Microsoft's campus.
The group led by Spokane mother Mary Heston, has more than 12,000 Twitter followers, a Facebook group [...]
Bellevue-based T-Mobile USA today blamed a "software error" for a network outage that affected voice and messaging services for about 5 percent of its customers - including many in Seattle - on Tuesday.
"After investigating the cause, we have determined that a backend system software error had generated abnormal congestion on" [...]
Microsoft exceeded the forecast it gave Wall Street - for layoffs.
The company announced today that it cut an additional 800 jobs as part of broad cutbacks announced in January. The initial target was to cut 5,000 jobs but with the round announced today, the total is 5,800, spokesman Lou Gellos [...]
Mercer Island billionaire Paul Allen is asking for federal bankruptcy protection as he liquidates the remains of Digeo, a Kirkland set-top box company that was mostly sold off this fall.
Allen filed for Chapter 11 protection Monday for a holding company that encompasses the remains of Digeo. It has assets of [...]
The University of Washington and the X Prize Foundation announced a new partnership that will have grad students, faculty and others develop ideas for new X Prizes.
The Playa Vista, Calif.-based nonprofit gave its first award -- for $10 million -- in 2004 for a reusable spaceship backed by Paul [...]
Today's column is a preview of the big-thoughts college tour Microsoft's Craig Mundie's starting this week:
While most people were turning their clocks backward over the weekend, Microsoft research chief Craig Mundie was moving his forward, five to 10 years into the future.
Read more... [...]CNET's Ina Fried has the deep dish on Microsoft's new Chicago datacenter, which may be the world's largest.
Key features include a modular design with servers clustered in shipping containers:
"Each of the shipping containers in the Chicago data center houses anywhere from 1,800 to 2,500 servers, each of which can" [...]
The ghosts will be partying tonight at The Last Supper Club in Seattle, where a reunion for dot-com veterans begins at 6 p.m.
More than 100 people from the era that spawned Kozmo.com, MyLackey.com and HomeGrocer, among others, are registered, according to organizers of the event, co-host Dakotta Alex, who [...]
In response to complaints about the sweetheart housing relocation deals it offered to some executives, Microsoft is changing its policy -- a little.
Complaints arose after Microsoft disclosed in a September proxy that it took a bath on real estate deals made to recruit Business Division President Stephen Elop. Relocating him [...]
Here's a great chart from BillShrink.com comparing total cost of ownership for the Motorola Droid versus the iPhone, Palm Pre and MyTouch 3G.
Something to think about while Christmas shopping -- the cost of smartphones smarts.
The bottom line: Ouch.
Zillow better watch out: The latest thing to emerge from Google's barrage of launches this week duplicates one of the Seattle startup's most valuable features.
Google is now offering an instant mortgage quote service that instantly connects lenders to buyers, and provides useful tools for comparison shopping. It also instantly [...]
Two months after it was sold to MySpace, Seattle music startup iLike moved out of its cramped Capitol Hill office.
The company today moved a few miles down the hill, into the bigger MySpace offices on Western Avenue. MySpace opened the office in 2007, tapping Seattle's tech community to produce developer [...]
Confirming the rumors, Google and MySpace today announced they are partnering on a new music search initiative using technology from Seattle's iLike, which MySpace acquired in August.
Is Google trying to outdo itself with news today? This will probably get far more use than the navigation service announced this [...]
Among the dignitaries speaking at today's ceremonial opening of the new Google campus in Kirkland was the guy who first approved the company's engineering office in the Seattle area.
Alan Eustace, Google senior vice president of engineering and research, said it began five years ago when three smart and persuasive people [...]
Politicians and engineering directors weren't the only notables at today's ceremonial opening of Google's fancy new Kirkland campus.
There was also Violet Kiss, Google's only barista.
Espresso machines are a standard perk at the company's various offices all over the place, but Googlers generally have to pull their' [...]
Comcast's digital switch - the one that's requiring expanded basic subscribers to put converter boxes on every TV - is proceeding on schedule, spokesman Steve Kipp said today.
The switch is largely done in Washington and now moving into remaining pockets within Seattle. Conversion began today in West Seattle and Georgetown. [...]
Here's Ethan Lowry showing the new reservation feature of Urbanspoon, which is detailed with screenshots in this post.
[...]A group of 22 engineers at Microsoft's Hyderabad campus found a frugal way to create a Windows 7 launch spectacle, with 7,000 dominoes.
(I found this here and here, but it apparently originated at Ankur Sadhoo's Facebook page.)
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Something big is shaking at Urbanspoon, the Seattle company behind a hugely successful iPhone restaurant-finding application.
The company is launching a reservation service called "Rez" that adds a new dimension to its eponymous app and Web service.
Read more... [...]A majority of the Federal Trade Commission is in favor of filing an antitrust complaint againt Intel, according to a Reuters scoop:
Three of the four commissioners on the Federal Trade Commission, which opened a formal inquiry in June 2008, are in favor of filing a complaint against Intel, the [...]
Not the blowout earnings report this morning that pushed MSFT up 6 percent.
I'm talking about the special Windows 7 promotional Whopper that Burger King is selling in Japan for 777 yen ($8.45) through Oct. 28.
I hear it's big in Japan, but this is ridiculous. Is it lunchtime yet?
Responding to concerns about loading Windows 7 onto netbooks and other computers that don't have DVD drives, Microsoft introduced a tool to load the software onto a USB memory stick.
A netbook can then boot up from the USB stick, initiating the process of upgrading the PC to Windows 7.
The "Windows'" [...]
Clearwire today announced that it's finally launching its 4G broadband service in Seattle in early December, as we first reported in August.
Clearwire partners Sprint and Comcast will simultaneously begin selling the service under their own brands.
The same rollout is happening in Philadelphia in the next few weeks and [...]
Steve Ballmer giving the Windows 7 pitch on Fox Business News this morning -- "better than magic," he said.
Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com
[...]Acer is adding some depth to its line of Windows 7 computers appearing today: The company is introducing a laptop with a 3-D display.
The $780 Aspire 5738DG "delivers cinematic images that literally pop from the screen," the company said in its release.
Why? Acer said it's in anticipation of more 3-D [...]
King County is pretty familiar with real estate developers.
Now it's going after software developers, encouraging them to connect with Metro and build transit applications and services.
It's happening at a "Metro IT Developers Workshop" the county transportation department is hosting Thursday from 4 to 7 p.m. at King Street [...]
Good for Twitter that it persuaded Microsoft to give the latter's high profile Bing search engine a dedicated Twitter search feature at www.bing.com/twitter.
Will it be the best partnership/traffic deal ever made by a startup?
It's a coup for a young company whose service often fails and whose users [...]
Google's going to raise the profile of digital music in its search results, offering people ways to discover and buy music through a partnership with Seattle-based iLike and Lala, according to reports out of the Bay Area today.
But Google's "One Box" initiative doesn't sound like a full-blown music destination/distribution service' [...]
Kirkland video startup 1Cast is coming out of beta testing today and announcing a deal with Boxee that will get its "personalized video" streams into living rooms.
The Craig McCaw-backed venture lets users create their own newscasts, choosing from video provided by most major news networks.
The free, ad-supported service has [...]
To mark the launch of Windows 7, Nasdaq will set up a remote bell on the Microsoft campus to ceremonially open the market Thursday morning.
MSFT has been listed on the Nasdaq market since it went public in 1986.
Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell will do the ceremonial ring on the campus [...]
Redmond's PlayNetwork is becoming Muzak 2.0 with the acquisition of Los Angeles-based Channel M, another big player in the business providing dynamic audio-visual to retail stores.
The combination will extend PlayNetwork's reach to more than 185 brands, including 25 global brands, with 65,000 locations in 60 countries.
"Today marks a significant" [...]
Research firm NPD said video game sales emerged from their rut last month, posting a 1 percent gain, pulled up by the "Halo" franchise, Xbox platform and hardware price cuts.
With 1.52 million copies sold after its Sept. 22 launch, Bungie's "Halo 3: ODST" helped make last month the second best-selling [...]
Seattle mobile photo startup Ontela is going to acquire News Corp.'s Photobucket online photo sharing service, according to a TechCrunch report.
Citing unnamed sources, the tech blog said Disney's Steamboat Ventures is putting $40 million more into Ontela to enable the $60 million "fire sale" of Photobucket:
"Lots more details" [...]
A few people have asked me today where to find the $30 student copies of Windows 7 referred to in today's review of Microsoft's new operating system.
The deal is available through a special Web site -- win741.com -- that's run by a Microsoft vendor. To get that deal [...]
Companies releasing e-books seem to be telling people to hold off buying a Kindle this holiday, because cool options are coming soon.
Today's e-book teases include a new Google Android-powered model with dual displays, a new Irex reader with access to 1,200 newspapers, and a business-oriented touchscreen reader that Barnes & [...]
Another bleak report on video game sales was just released by research firm NPD, which said the overall industry's U.S. sales fell 16 percent to $909 million last month.
Hardware sales were down 25 percent, despite a 72 percent jump in PlayStation 3 sales after its price was cut to $299.
Software [...]
Apple chose not to hassle Real Networks over the Rhapsody iPhone app, apparently. It's on iTunes today, perhaps because Apple expects limited uptake given the price of Real's service.
The app itself can be downloaded for free, but it only streams music from Rhapsody if you pay for Real's $15 a [...]
Check out the networked media setup in this house in Odessa, Texas.
There are six Windows Media Center-based servers, one Windows Home Server, five dedicated theater-style rooms, 12 media racks, 98 speakers and 30 zones of distributed audio.
The installation, by Dustin Anderson at Vision Audio in Lubbock, won the [...]
People who order photo prints from stores like Costco, Wal-Mart and Walgreens will have more options for customizing and packaging their images, now that two Seattle-area photo services companies are merging.
Maybe the ill-fated HD DVD format was just a placeholder until Microsoft got its Silverlight digital video platform up to snuff.
The company today announced a pilot launch of downloadable movies via Silverlight, starting with British retail giant Tesco this fall.
Microsoft said it will be waaay better than Blu-ray, promise. [...]
Two months after folding his Web hosting startup Sampa, Redmond entrepreneur Marcelo Calbucci and a group of cohorts launched TweepML, an XML format and companion service for sharing groups of Twitter users.
Calbucci's been talking about Tweep for a while but is launching it today, after getting Twitter's approval. Here's' [...]
If you can't wait for the University of Washington Computer Science public lecture series to start in October, you might be interested in a talk next week by quantum optics pioneer Carlos Stroud.
The University of Rochester professor of optics and physics is speaking at the University of Puget Sound's Schneebeck' [...]
Sounds like a thin batch of Cupertino cider today, judging from the testy coverage of Apple's hyped "rock and roll" press conference today.
Silicon Alley Insider: "Good to see Steve again. But a snooze fest for any Apple fans expecting new, must-buy products."
Engadget on the new iPod nano: "We came and" [...]
As part of a big push to increase its presence in the video game business, Disney today announced that "Halo" co-creator Alex Seropian is joining its interactive studios unit.
Seropian was a founder of "Halo" maker Bungie but left to start a new studio, Wideload Games, in Chicago in 2002.
Disney also [...]
Ever wonder which billionaire lives in which mansion, as you cruise around Lake Washington?
Mercer Islander David Dykstra wondered so much he published a book last month mapping more than 100 lakefront mansions, describing their owners and presenting photos of the homes taken from the water.
Many of the places featured in [...]
The rivalry between Sonos -- the premium digital music streaming system I wrote about recently -- and Logitech is heating up.
Just after Sonos introduced a new $349 touchscreen Wi-Fi remote control, Logitech today is announcing its own touchscreen Wi-Fi remote, going on sale in December for $300.
Logitech's remote works [...]
The antidote to iPhone App fatigue may be a pint or two at the Fremont Oktoberfest, but how do you choose from all the different beers?
With the new Oktoberfest iPhone application, of course. The show this week released a free app to "help streamline navigation of the festival" taking [...]
Happy fall from Comcast: The company said it's raising rates for cable customers in Washington starting Oct. 6.
Broadband prices won't change, but cable TV is getting more expensive.
From the pricing announcement:
-- Digital Starter, which is the entry level digital cable tier and is taken by the vast majority of our' [...]
After seven years in rented buildings in Ghana, Ashesi University broke ground on a new campus that's largely funded by donations from Microsoft alumni.
The school was started by former Windows engineer Patrick Awuah, whose long-term goal is to start an Ivy League of private schools to train future leaders [...]
The first edition was a best-seller, so Seattle entrepreneur Ben Huh has high hopes for the second book based on his Icanhascheezburger.com Web phenomenon.
"How to Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLcat Guide 2 Winning" goes on sale Tuesday. Amazon.com is already taking orders for the cute and fuzzy [...]
Six months into the job, Clearwire Chief Executive Bill Morrow is changing the company's executive lineup.
The Kirkland wireless broadband company today announced that it hired Erik Prusch, former chief executive of Borland and VP of Intuit's Turbo Tax group, as chief financial officer.
It also hired Teresa Elder as [...]
Tragic Seattle rock star Kurt Cobain is headlining a new version of the hit video game "Guitar Hero" featuring an eerIE, animated Cobain resurrected on screen.
His appearance in "Guitar Hero 5" should balance out "The Beatles" game debut on the competing "Rock Band" on Sept. 9.
It's the first appearance in [...]
Microsoft won't comment on the "rumors and speculation," but the latest batch of images look like more than rumors: Images of upcoming ad circulars show Xbox 360 prices falling by $50 to $100.
A pretty convincing Best Buy ad shown at Kotaku lists the 360 Pro for $249 and the' [...]
Maybe now it's an actual competition between Amazon's Kindle and Sony's forlorn "Reader" e-book.
Sony today announced a new larger-screen model going on sale by Christmas for around $399. The Reader Daily Edition (aiming to deliver newspapers, perhaps?) has a seven-inch-wide touchscreen and includes 3G wireless service from AT&T.
Bellevue toy and game startup Smith & Tinker is disclosing its venture funding today: a cool $29 million from a batch of big name tech and game investors.
They include Paul Allen's Vulcan Capital, Alsop Louie Partners, Foundry Group, Leo Capital Holdings and DCM, which led the round.
Alsop Louie provided the [...]
Blair Westlake, a former movie studio executive heading Microsoft's media and entertainment group, will be "gala chair" of the 37th International Emmy Awards in New York on Nov. 23.
The appointment was announced today by the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
"As a senior executive at Microsoft, Blair'" [...]
RealNetworks went public today with its pending Rhapsody iPhone application, which will stream music from its 8 million track library to the device and allow users buy MP3s.
Unless Apple decides that Rhapsody diminishes the experience of using iTunes and rejects the application.
Apple and Real have gone at it [...]
It won't work for the 40 million or so users of iPhones and iPod Touches, but Microsoft's new mobile app platform could reach some 800 million people using lower powered devices in developing countries.
Called OneApp, the software is debuting in the next few weeks in South Africa, where mobile services' [...]
Here is a fuller version of the edited Q&A with Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow that was the basis for today's column.
Among other things, he talks about how customers of Clearwire's current service will be affected by the network upgrade happening in Seattle in December.
Read more... [...]If games and Vista Aero didn't pursuade you to buy a graphics card for your PC, perhaps DirectCompute will.
That's a new technology in Windows 7 that lets applications tap the power of graphics processors to accelerate performance, giving the system processor a boost. It sounds really promising, but so did' [...]
On the heels of Wednesday's release of the new Movie Maker software, Microsoft today is launching a new high-def Web cam device that can be used with the editing suite.
The $80 "LifeCam Cinema" captures 720p video in a widescreen format. It also has an autofocus capability that works on [...]
Brett Allsop, chairman and co-founder of Seattle travel startup Yapta, was killed Tuesday night when his BMW went off a road near his family's home in Bellingham.
Allsop, whose family built a major consumer electronics business based in Bellingham, studied engineering at Stanford. Later he started Fogdog, an online sporting goods [...]
MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta just confirmed his company bought Seattle music startup iLike.
He said the 26-person social music startup will remain based in Seattle and no layoffs will result.
MySpace bought the company for its "world class talent," technology and services distributed around the Web, which complements the centralized [...]
Enough about sharing music. How about sharing proteomics software?
Seattle life-sciences software company Insilicos and the Institute for Systems Biology today announced the release of Trans-Proteomic Pipeline version 4.3.0. The open-source software includes a new tool called "Mayu" for computing the false-discovery rate of proteomics analyses, new features for analyzing [...]
The deal of the day from Redmond is a new version of Microsoft's free Movie Maker video-editing software for creating slideshows.
Microsoft announced today that the software is out of beta testing and available for anyone to download.
New features include the ability to handle HD video and prepare and [...]
MySpace and iLike must have a deal done: MySpace just announced a press conference at 11:45 with CEO Owen Van Natta.
[...]
Dark Void, the debut triple-A title from Redmond's Airtight Games, will go on sale Jan. 12 in the U.S. and Jan. 15 in Europe, publisher Capcom announced today.
That's a little later than expected but maybe it's going to avoid the flood of action games [...]
Microsoft's Xbox 360 may finally get some serious competition from Sony this holiday season: Sony just announced that it is introducing a redesigned version of its PlayStation 3 -- the "slim" model that's been rumored for months.
Sony is also lowering the current console's base price by $100, to $299.
The [...]
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