TechFlash Podcast, Ep. 4: Apple, Microsoft, bridges and bikinis |
Connect with TechFlash on our Facebook page for all the latest technology news headlines and commentary, plus information and access to special events, photos from events, promotions and more.
Today On Techflash
- Amazon falls on world's most valuable brand list; Microsoft at No. 5
- Microsoft to offer $15 upgrade to Windows Pro 8
- Amazon announces deal with Paramount Pictures
- Seattle TaskRabbit will run your errands, do your chores
- Startup of the Week: LocalBonus aims at 'buy local' movement
- Microvision gets NASDAQ delisting warning letter
- Microsoft to offer $15 upgrade to Windows Pro 8
- Seattle TaskRabbit will run your errands, do your chores
- Amazon shareholders met by protesters, company cuts ties with ALEC
- Amazon announces deal with Paramount Pictures
- Microsoft Windows Phone tops Apple's iPhone in China
- RealNetworks to pay $2.4M in settlement with Wash. state
Mass High Tech
- Microsoft Build: Windows 8 preview a hit, but are investors unhappy?
- Build an app in a day at Mobile App Hackathon
- Beefed-up Skype for Windows; Indie author joins Amazon's 'Kindle Million Club'
- Only solution to Xbox 360 update error is new console
- Ballmer: Windows Phone update 'Mango' has over 500 new features
Kindle News
- Seattle is nation's 13th most 'well-read' city, says Amazon
- Target confirms it will stop selling Kindle, other Amazon products
- U.S. sues Apple, book publishers for fixing e-book prices
- Publishing on the iPad: Displays, processors and licensing, oh my!
- Amazon's Kindle Fire eats into Apple's iPad tablet lead
TechFlash Podcast, Ep. 4: Apple, Microsoft, bridges and bikinis
Subjects covered this week: Apple removes sexually suggestive apps; Do app developers really need carriers anymore?; Microsoft licenses patents to Amazon; Microsoft and the 520 bridge; Seattle venture capital firms broaden their geographic focus; Redfin in Portland; and a look at the week ahead.
Listen below or subscribe to the TechFlash Podcast using this RSS feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/techflashpodcast), or via iTunes or Zune. Call 206-876-5465 to leave a message for next week's podcast, and continue reading for links related to this week's episode. Access the archive of past episodes on our podcast category page.
Apple's 'sexy' app crackdown: Apple's ban of 'sexy' apps leads to Android promotion from startup ... Developer of Hooters iPhone app responds to Apple's new policy ... Maker of strip poker app sounds off on Apple policy: 'It sucks' ... Related Links: New York Times: Apple bans some apps for sex-tinged content ... TechCrunch: Apple exec Phil Schiller on the App Store's sex ban.
Location-based services: The creepy, exciting and growing world of location-based services ... Mobile app developers: We don't need no stinkin' carriers.
Goldman Sachs conference: Why Apple isn't Microsoft, as explained by Apple's COO
Microsoft and the 520 bridge: Microsoft vs. McGinn on 520 ... Video: Microsoft's 520 bridge plea ... Seattle mayor calls on Microsoft to live up to Bill Gates' vision ... Related links: Publicola: Microsoft takes out full-page ad opposing McGinn/Chopp 520 plan ... KING-5: Seattle hires consultant to look at 520 bridge plan.
Microsoft, Amazon and patents: Microsoft, Amazon strike patent deal covering Kindle and Linux ... Linux boosters give a shrug to Microsoft patent deal ... Panasonic licenses Microsoft file system in latest patent agreement.
Venture Capital: Seattle VCs fare well on MIT list, but where are the local startups?
Redfin: Redfin CEO prepares for fight as company moves into Portland
Coming Up: U.S. CIO to visit University of Washington ... WTIA Industry Achievement Awards ... TechFlash Live: Future of Advertising, March 23, register here.
If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings. By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below.
TechFlash Team
TechFlash In Person
TechFlash Archive
- May 2012 (105)
- March 2012 (139)
- January 2012 (196)
- November 2011 (258)
- September 2011 (286)
- July 2011 (201)
- May 2011 (194)
- March 2011 (208)
- January 2011 (158)
- November 2010 (231)
- April 2012 (126)
- February 2012 (131)
- December 2011 (203)
- October 2011 (256)
- August 2011 (257)
- June 2011 (191)
- April 2011 (195)
- February 2011 (153)
- December 2010 (142)
- October 2010 (248)
