Wyoming

Microsoft Opens Colorado Retail Store in Wyoming

John Paczkowski in News on July 13, 2011 at 12:45 pm PT

Lone Tree, Colorado, is not a city in Wyoming, guys.

Seven Questions for Shan Sinha, DocVerse Founder Turned Google Apps Exec

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on June 28, 2011 at 6:30 am PT

With Microsoft Launching Office 365 today, the cloud-based office suite business is getting a little more crowded. We check in with Shan Sinha, product manager of Google Apps, to talk about the state of the business and where Google’s going now that Microsoft is elbowing its way into the cloud.

Oh, Home Back in the Range (Of Wireless Access!)

Kara Swisher in News on June 21, 2010 at 9:06 am PT

BoomTown has finally dragged all my various and sundry bags of gadgetry back to San Francisco after a week of it sitting mostly useless on a ranch in Wyoming. However did I manage that?–at least according to a recent slightly alarmed series of articles in the New York Times about how technology is messing with our inner chi. The paper also has been urging readers to unplug and then tell the tale. Memo to the NYT editors: I survived the whole analog encounter just fine.

Vital Video–The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Kara Swisher in News on August 5, 2009 at 6:00 am PT

How much should you ponder this amazing video from an upcoming new documentary series by Ken Burns–titled “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea”–on America’s national parks system? Muchly much, as the national parks have indeed been one of this country’s most amazing gifts to itself. Set to air on PBS on September 27, the creators stuck a video clip that is almost 27 minutes long on YouTube and on the series’ own really nice Web site, which is a pretty terrific thing to do.

Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Internet Cowboys

Kara Swisher in News on July 27, 2009 at 2:19 am PT

BoomTown is clearly losing a step in the summer doldrums and forgot to post this lovely movie that I did while in Jackson Hole, Wyo., last weekend for an event called the “Internet Cowboys Un-Conference.” What’s an un-conference? Well, it was less organized, there were fly-fishing and elk nearby and it involved a whole lot of thinking big thoughts in the much bigger outdoors. It was actually a very bracing time and here is a video I did interviewing some of the participants.