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You must never press the original Razr’s forbidden internet button

The Verge

In all my years of owning a Razr, I can’t say I tapped it more than once or twice, and never on purpose: the internet button. Located on the upper left side of the keypad, the internet button was emblazoned with a blue globe and would open the Razr’s built-in internet browser. The Razr’s internet button was aspirational.

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Avalara co-founder leads new advisory firm helping companies create digital assets

GeekWire

based advisory company that is helping brands use regulated digital assets to capitalize on their products and projects. The “metaverse” has been described as the next iteration of the internet; McKinsey said last year that it could generate up to $5 trillion in value by 2030. billion.

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USPTO denies OpenAI’s attempts to trademark ‘ChatGPT’ and ‘GPT’

GeekWire

But if the rulings stand, they will prevent the company from defending its exclusive use of the phrases, opening them up to widespread adoption as common terms across the industry. The Redmond company has applied for related trademarks in conjunction with other brand names, such as GitHub Copilot.

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CES 2023: A list of Washington state companies showing off their latest tech gadgets and services

GeekWire

The big Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is returning to Las Vegas this week with its usual array of companies, gadgets and services, and Washington state will be represented by startups, tech giants and those in between. based Bluetooth SIG is a community of companies working to expand the capabilities of Bluetooth technology.

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How Optimal’s CEO shifted his company and personal priorities — and is now a better leader

GeekWire

He’d been a general manager at Microsoft for nearly a decade, and in the early 2000s he wanted to capitalize on the burgeoning internet boom. In 2004, he launched Kirkland, Wash.-based About a decade ago, the company shifted its primary goal from marketing to serving students.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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The inside story at Meta as it moves beyond Facebook

Vox

Under the leadership of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the same man who co-founded Facebook from his college dorm room in 2004, Meta is trying to transition away from its complicated legacy as a social media company to a futuristic metaverse vision that aims to reshape the future of the internet.

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