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Just a quick note here. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop has done some good number crunching on the video game console war. The results are what we have expected: Nintendo's Wii is a runaway success, Microsoft's Xbox...

It's as if we're waking up from a bad dream. Suddenly, everyone doesn't want to live in a cookie-cutter suburb, miles from the nearest strip mall, sitting in traffic for at least an hour every morning and evening (and at other...

Inside the corridors of power in Washington's second city

What was little more than a rumor two days ago is now confirmed in a pair of dueling press releases. The one from Microsoft is typically vague "Microsoft and Bungie Studios Evolve Relationship." The one from Bungie is more to the...

Washington CEO Magazine's October 2007 issue is available soon.

In which the chortling inside the Googleplex abruptly transforms into a strangled cry.

Just a quick hit today. The New York Times today is discontinuing its "Times Select" program, whereby it charged a $50 annual subscription to read its star columnists on the Web. Even more significantly, the Times is removing the...

There is probably a bit of rejoicing in the halls of the Googleplex this morning since word came down that the European Court of First Instance - the European Union's equivalent of the U.S. Court of Appeals - rejected Microsoft's...

The periodic sales reports for the three video game console makers are often a bit confusing, each touting how wonderful their console is doing, and it takes a bit of parsing to figure out who actually sold more. Because more...

One of the stories that I overlooked last week (while I was putting our October issue to bed) was a little tidbit out of the other Washington concerning the amorphous concept of "Net Neutrality." This has become a hot button...

What's the cost of gridlock in the Puget Sound region? A coalition of business and environmental groups are saying $17.8 billion... as a starting point. That is the amount of money on the ballot this November to fund road and...