Barry Elad

Washington State is one of five states recently selected to be a pioneer in developing and bringing the next generation of Internet materials, applications, and tools to K-12 schools and colleges. The Washington K-20 Education Network will soon have direct access to the Internet2 (I2), the high-performance, next generation Internet (called “Abilene”). In fact, seattle.internet.com […]

Oren Etzioni made his mark in Internet history when he co-developed the Metacrawler search engine while serving as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington. Etzioni also has played significant roles as an executive in the Internet industry. He served as Chief Technology Officer of Go2net and was a co-founder of […]

Representatives from Allvest Information Services are currently at the 28th Annual National Juvenile Justice Conference that wraps up tomorrow in Reno. You might be asking: “Why would a Seattle IT company fly all the way to Nevada to attend an annual conference on juvenile justice?” Turns out that Allvest is in Reno to showcase their […]

Law Firm Preston Gates & Ellis is going broadband. No they are not launching a broadband law division. They have, however, become the latest company to sign up to use Terabeam’s Fiberless Optic services. Preston Gates & Ellis will become the fourth company to sign up for Terabeam’s services. Back in February, Terabeam announced that […]

Portland’s Tim Boyle, CEO of Columbia Sportswear received yesterday the “Trendsetter of the Year Award” from the University of Oregon’s Charles H. Lundquist College of Business. The Trendsetter Award is typically given to those few individuals throughout the country who have created successful and enduring business enterprises through keen entrepreneurial foresight. Boyle’s career began at […]

Penton Media’s eighth annual Internet World Spring 2001 conference, which began earlier this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center, will be wrapping up later this afternoon. One Seattle company will even be bringing home an award from the show. F5 Networks’ iControl received the prestigious ‘Best of Show’ award for the infrastructure category. F5’s […]

CMGI, the Andover, Massachussetts-based restructuring Internet investor and operator, posted widened second-quarter losses and is looking to exit from its majority stake in Seattle-based streaming broadcast company Activate. Activate Founder and CEO Jeff Schrock told seattle.internet.com that Activate is currently seeking additional investors, and CMGI has comitted to supporting the company until additional financial partners […]

It is safe to say that most people agree that the Internet plays an important role in our daily lives and in the day-to-day operations of many traditional businesses. But can the Internet play a crucial role in the medical arena? Allyn McAuley, co-founder and CEO of Bellevue-based Lumedx Corporation (www.lumedx.com), believes it can. McAuley’s […]

Bellevue-based FreeRein has acquired Seattle-based Clarios (formerly Senada.com). Senada.com, best known for its Web-based event communications platform, announced its move into the wireless arena late last year. The Seattle-based company, which changed it’s name to Clarios, became a member of the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) and formed partnerships with such companies as Wireless Services Corporation […]

While working in retail, Colleen Caine noticed that many women were extremely frustrated with the lingerie shopping process offered by traditional brick and mortar retail channels. “They would travel to the mall only to find many unknowledgeable salespeople, their sizes out of stock, and crowded dressing rooms,” says Cain. That is when the 23-year-old salesperson […]

Jeff Bezos has found another Jeff to take charge of his company’s new worldwide digital division. His full name is Jeff Blackburn, and he has recently been named general manager of the division that was created to centralize Amazon’s digital platform. “We’ve always planned to develop an aggressive digital offering when the experience was truly […]

Boeing’s software subsidiary AeroInfo Systems today unveiled the latest version of its MainStream software system: MainStream 2.2. Boeing Spokesperson Dick Schleh told seattle.internet.com that the main difference between the latest version and previous versions is increased speed in data processing and the system’s long-term capabilities. As regard long-term capabilities, MainStream 2.2 provides an improved maintenance […]