It’s time for the GeekWire Awards, presented by Wave Business, our annual celebration of technology and innovation in the Pacific Northwest. The event is sold-out, with more than 1,000 people expected to join us this evening at the EMP Museum in...
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George R.R. Martin admits he won’t catch up to HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ in time
A LiveJournal post from George R. R. Martin this weekend came as a shock to many readers — both because of its content and because someone apparently still uses LiveJournal. In it, the author apologetically explains that his much-anticipated sixth...
Adobe ditches ‘Flash’ name as it tries to catch up with a web built on open standards
Adobe is getting rid of Flash, at least in name. The company announced today it’s changing the name of its Flash Professional CC software to Animate CC, reflecting better tools for creating content with HTML5 instead of Flash. With the rise of mobile computing and smartphones, Flash has seen steep competition from open web standards like HTML5, which can...
Geek of the Week: Patent attorney Priya Cloutier couldn’t help but catch the entrepreneurial bug
Patent attorney Priya Cloutier wasn’t all that surprised when she caught the entrepreneurship bug earlier this year. After all, she has been representing startups for more than a decade. She left a comfortable job a big firm in October to start her own practice, Cloutier Global. Things are still just getting started, but Cloutier said she was able to bring...