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· NASA tries to lure kids with space communications simulation
· FAA predicts U.S. air travel will rise this year

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· Bing up, Yahoo down once again in February rankings
· Microsoft: VirnetX was created to sue us for $242M

Tech Chronicles
· Former Sun CEO Schwartz dishes on patent fights with Jobs, Gates
· Smartphones will make mobile security a challenge, researcher said

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· Men filing sexual harassment complaints: a rising trend?
· Same old same old in federal unemployment report

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· Texas ahead of Washington in Energy Efficiency Measures

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· Feds to probe cause of runaway Prius in California
· China February exports jump 45.7 percent
· Soaring China home prices thwart ordinary buyers
· Asia markets little changed as China exports surge
· Curbing derivatives might hurt, not help, Greece
· Bank of America ends overdraft fees on debit cards
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· Google adds bike lane with latest mapping feature
· Summary Box: Google expands sales of business apps
· Google opens Web store for business applications
· MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up
· Winner of 'Nobel of computing' at a glance
· Mandatory insurance proposed for UK dogs
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TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2010
Bing up, Yahoo down once again in February rankings
Surprise! Microsoft Bing traffic increased and Yahoo search traffic decreased in February, according to comScore, following a trend that's been ongoing since Bing's launch last June.

Microsoft: VirnetX was created to sue us for $242M
Monday saw the beginning of the jury trial in VirnetX v. Microsoft, a patent-infringement lawsuit that may be VirnetX's last stand. And like many trials in Judge Leonard Davis' courtroom, it had a serious air of David v. Goliath.

NASA tries to lure kids with space communications simulation
NASA Tuesday rolled out an interactive computer simulation that aims to illustrate communications with space shuttles, the International Space Station, the Hubble telescope, Mars rovers and more.

FAA predicts U.S. air travel will rise this year
U.S. passenger travel will increase by 0.5 percent this year and then at an average of 2.5 percent per year through 2030, the Federal Aviation Administration predicted in a forecast released Tuesday.

Former Sun CEO Schwartz dishes on patent fights with Jobs, Gates
Former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz has a nice insider take on the latest patent craze including how he sent Apple's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates packing when they came looking for a fight.

Boeing moves second 787 Dreamliner to California
Boeing's second 787 Dreamliner moved down to Victorville, Calif., launching the 787's first flight testing outside of Washington, Boeing announced Tuesday.

EADS announces 2009 loss of 763 million euros
Continued cost woes with the A400 military transport and A380 super-jumbo jet pushed Airbus parent EADS into the red last year, with a net loss of 763 million euros, the company announced Tuesday.

Microsoft warns against using 64-bit Office 2010
While the 64-bit version of Office 2010 may offer more processing power, the drawbacks may not be worth it for enterprise customers, Microsoft says.

Northrop no-bid could speed up tanker contract
Northrop Grumman's decision not to bid on the Air Force's aerial refueling tanker request could speed up the Pentagon's timeline for awarding the contract, given that Boeing is now the only potential bidder, Reuters reported Tuesday.

MSN redesign begins broad deployment Tuesday
It's been four months since Microsoft rolled out a preview of the redesigned MSN home page.

Iraq and Boeing finalize deal for 10 787 Dreamliners
Ten of the 11 previously unidentified 787 Dreamliner orders Boeing listed in December were from Iraq's government, the company disclosed recently.

Seattle-based Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air add mobile apps
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air Tuesday announced the launch of free mobile applications optimized for iPhone, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile users.

Microsoft researcher wins Turing Award, computing's highest prize
Sure, Chuck Thacker now works at Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley. But the computer scientist is best known – and on Tuesday won the field's highest prize – for his decades of influential work in computing.

Smartphones will make mobile security a challenge, researcher said
Like we wrote about last week, the security industry RSA conference hosted last week here in San Francisco revolved mostly around three big themes: cloud computing, the role of government in securing cyber-space and the threat of modern warfare incorporating cyber-tactics.

'In 2011 we'll deliver more airplanes' than Airbus
Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and Chief Executive Jim Albaugh had a lot of interesting things to day Tuesday morning in a Webcast talk at the J.P. Morgan Aviation, Transportation & Defense Conference.

Apple's patent offensive sends message to rivals
Apple's patent infringement case against HTC is part of a larger effort to give rival smart phone manufacturers pause as they pursue iPhone-like features in their devices, according to a research note from Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner.

Cisco lays foundation for next-gen Internet with new routers
Cisco's promise to "change the Internet" is taking the form of a new routing system called the Cisco CRS-3 which triples the capacity of its predecessor, with up to 322 Terabits per second, the company announced.

Airbus will increase A320 production rate in December
Airbus will increase the monthly A320 family production rate to 36 from the current rate of 34 in December, the company announced Tuesday.

Hawaiian Airlines orders another Airbus A330
Hawaiian Airlines has ordered one more A330-200 airliner to its previous order for six A330-200s and six A350 XWB-800s and three lease-deal A330s, Airbus announced Tuesday.

Seattle-based Jones Soda agrees to takeover by California's Reed's, Inc.
California-based Reed's, Inc., would take over Seattle's Jones Soda Co., under a deal the two companies announced Tuesday.

Xconomy: NW Energy Angels Names Director
Seattle-based Northwest Energy Angels announced today it has hired Margo Shiroyama as its new executive director. Shiroyama is a veteran of the Washington Technology Industry Association, Northwest Entrepreneur Network, enterpriseSeattle, and the Washington Biomedical Device Innovation Zone. Martin Tobias and Jeff Morris founded Northwest Energy Angels in 2006. The angel group provides early-stage capital to ...

Xconomy: Google Buys DocVerse, Madrona Backs ShopIgniter, ISB Gets Mystery Gift, & More Seattle-Area Deals News
In the week since Google's acquisition of Picnik, the Northwest deals scene came back to earth a little bit. But there was a decent amount of activity in software, Internet, mobile, and cleantech, much of it from Oregon-based companies. -Seattle's Institute for Systems Biology received a five-year, $6 million gift from a venture capitalist in California ...

MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010
Pilot Sullenberger spins life lessons from Hudson landing
Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III apparently has thought a lot in the past year about how the experience of someone who saved 155 lives in less time it takes to read this article translates for people who probably never will face such a trial.

New Seattle-based foodie site takes aim at men
Allrecipes.com believes men deserve more than to have to share food forums with women. So the Seattle-based recipe super-site today launched a new social food site, ManTestedRecipes.com.

Xconomy: Cell Therapeutics Passes Factory Test
Cell Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CTIC), the Seattle-based company developing pixantrone for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, said today that the FDA has certified that a contract manufacturer is ready to make the treatment. The factory, run by NerPharMa in Italy, was inspected and found to be in compliance and acceptable for continued manufacturing, Cell Therapeutics said. The treatment is ...

Nostalgia (and Frisbees) in the air at Wham-O
These days, the action is coming fast and furious at Wham-O, with a new owner, a push into preschool playthings, an eco-friendly toy material and a sense of overall renaissance.

Xconomy: ISB Nabs $6M Gift From VC
The Institute for Systems Biology, a Seattle-based nonprofit research center, said today it has received a five-year $6 million gift from a venture capitalist in California who wishes to remain anonymous. The money will be used to help the Institute move to a new facility that's twice as large as its current location, to recruit ...

FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010
Xconomy: UpWind Solutions Raises Cash
Medford, OR-based UpWind Solutions, a provider of operations and maintenance services for utility-scale wind projects, has raised $10 million out of a $29 million round of Series B preferred stock, according to a regulatory filing. The investors weren't disclosed, but the SEC form lists Michael Linse of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Mark Lewis ...

Xconomy: DeltaPoint Wins OEN Angel Investment
Portland, OR-based DeltaPoint has won $170,000 in the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network's angel investment competition today. DeltaPoint is developing diagnostic software that performs “virtual biopsies” on suspected cancers, starting with breast cancer. The company was a finalist in the OEN event's "launch stage" category. Portland-based Enjoy Life, which says it is the producer of the first ...

THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 2010
Xconomy: Dendreon?s False Rumor, Cell Therapeutics? New FDA Day, Microsoft?s Health-IT Plan, & More Seattle-Area Life Sciences News
Speculation about the future of a few cancer drugs attracted a ton of interest in Seattle biotech this week. -Seattle-based Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) lived up to its nickname on Wall Street this week: Dendrama. The company was forced to fight back against a rumor from analyst Elliott Favus, which turned out to be wrong, but made ...

Xconomy: Offbeat Creations Bought by Playdom
Bellevue, WA-based Offbeat Creations, a developer and publisher of Facebook gaming apps, has been acquired by Playdom, the social gaming company based in Mountain View, CA. Financial terms of the deal weren't released. Offbeat Creations is best known for its dice game, Super Farkle. Its founders, Chia Chin Lee, Robert Reichner, and Tom Fakes, are ...

Xconomy: Seattle 2.0 Goes from Calbucci to Cabala
Seattle 2.0 founder Marcelo Calbucci said today he has named television reporter Jennifer Cabala the new president and editor-in-chief of the organization, in charge of business and editorial content. Cabala previously was a TV journalist with KING 5 and Q13 (Fox) based in Seattle. Calbucci says he will continue as a blogger and advisor to ...

Xconomy: Summit, Ignition Back Cloudmark
Cloudmark, a mobile-messaging security firm based in San Francisco, has raised $23 million in growth equity led by Boston-based Summit Partners and joined by Nokia Growth Partners, Ignition Partners, and Industry Ventures. Bellevue, WA-based Ignition was an existing investor, along with Industry Ventures, while Summit and Nokia are new investors. The deal is Cloudmark's first ...