Add another consumer service to the Microsoft dustbin. The Windows Live team says it’s discontinuing Windows Live Events in stages starting next month and ending next year. The company is encouraging people to use Windows Live Calendar to plan and manage events.
Microsoft launched the service in October 2007, hoping to rival Evite and other online [...]

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Is the electronic reader market headed for a price war? Sony — which represents the main competition for Amazon’s Kindle — is reportedly planning to unveil two new e-readers, priced at $199 and $299. Amazon recently reduced the price of its Kindle 2 reader to $299, though its larger-screen Kindle DX still retails for a [...]

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DL BYRON, BikeHugger.com: At a summer cocktail party last week, a developer of Windows Mobile applications asked me which apps I use on my iPhone. His company was considering getting into the iPhone business. Actually, not that many, I explained, because so many of them are just not that good. I work on my iPhone — [...]

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WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps is banning its troops from going onto Facebook, MySpace and other social network sites, citing a possible security risk., more  and Intel backs computing project  Intel announced Monday that it is financing an initiative using Facebook that lets people donate their computers’ unused processing power to aid researchers studying climate change [...]

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Government agencies are investigating broadband technologies and the true cost of bringing high-speed Internet to the rural U.S., more  and The Antitrust Cop and the Tech Industry  Christine Varney aims to reinvigorate antitrust policy without stifling U.S. business, but Google and Intel could be among her targets, more 

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The Valley giants both want to determine how users access the mobile Web. Eric Schmidt’s exit from Apple’s board may be the shot that starts the race in earnest, more  and Telecom Companies Scramble for Funding  Companies seeking some of the $7.2 billion in federal money to bring broadband to underserved areas are rushing to meet [...]

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SeattlePI.com got a major facelift today nearly five months after the Seattle newspaper shut down its print publication and moved entirely to the Web.  The new look is supposed to highlight staff and reader bloggers as well as showcase content found on other sites, writes Executive Producer Michelle Nicolosi in a blog post explaining the [...]

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There’s been plenty of rumor and speculation over the past few months that one of the tech titans — Amazon, Apple, Google or Microsoft — will buy Twitter before it gets any bigger. (Click on each link for the speculation). If any of that chatter is to be believed, Bezos, Jobs, Schmidt or Ballmer may [...]

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The appliance maker has formalized the process of evaluating and testing the thousands of notions that bubble up, more  and The New Bank Branch: Internet Cafés and Rent-a-Rooms  Big banks are closing branches and focusing on sales of high-margin products. Meanwhile, innovative small banks are getting creative to compete, more 

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Clearwire continues its WiMax march across the country with plans to launch its new Clear service in 10 markets on September 1. The Kirkland company said today that it will unveil service in Bellingham and Boise as well as eight Texas cities on that day.
And what about Seattle? The company reaffirmed that its hometown will be [...]

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