Microsoft has announced that a number of new local governments in the US have signed up to use its Office 365 service, including the cities of Seattle and Kansas City. More...

The 5 Point Cafe diner and dive bar in Seattle has announced it has banned the use of the Google Glass device in its establishment, saying, " ... a** kickings will be encouraged for violators." More...

A California state senator has written a letter chastising Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for his involvement in the Sacramento Kings relocation to Seattle, saying Ballmer shouldn't be part of the move. More...

A new report claims that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may be part of a group of investors that will pay $500 million to bring the Sacramento Kings NBA team to Seattle. More...

Microsoft has turned against a partner they've had since the mid-1980s in Callison Architecture, due to poor quality work on one of their main data centers. This left thousands of machines at risk. More...

Epic Games has announced it is opening up yet another game development studio in Seattle where the team will work at first on engineering efforts for Unreal Engine 4. More...

The launch this week of Microsoft's new retail store in Seattle was dampened by the fact that many of the people waiting in line just wanted free concert tickets to later scalp on online sales sites. More...

Software engineer Steve Lacey died in a car crash yesterday in Kirkland, WA. The Seattle-based website of television channel KING 5 reports that Lacey's death came as part of a road rage incident in which... More...

PC Authority, the Australian Computer Magazine team has compiled a list of top 10 IT locations which it has found to be more IT friendly than the rest of the areas in the world. Below... More...

US newspaper publisher Hearst has announced that it will trial versions of the Seattle Post Intelligencer on flexible colour LCD displays from LG Philips within the next two years. Electronic paper will be used to... More...

Gaming guru J Allard makes his case for DirectX to attendees as lattes and lectures herald the start of the developer-only event. This reporter is lucky to be here in Seattle at... More...

Time is never too lacking for a Microsoft Co-Founder to show off his geekiness :P Microsoft Co-Founder to open museum dedicated to genre. Martians, time travelers and robots will have a... More...