Stanford study finds iPhone addicting

Do you love your iPhone? Perhaps you love it too much? A Stanford University study looked at the feelings iPhone owners had toward their beloved device.  According to a Mercury News report, those feelings left almost a third worried about developing... 

Quick Look: FreshDirect for iPhone – the food shopping a

Shopping for fresh food and branded groceries needn’t be such a hassle. If you own the iPhone and live in the New York City area, the free FreshDirect app will have you covered. This nifty little program lets you order over 20,000 food items directly... 

Facebook and Google Buzz sued for infringing on mobile soc

Sorry Google Buzz and Facebook. It seems the idea for mobile social-networking was already patented by another company. In fact, it was Wireless Ink Corp. who was issued the patent in October of last year. Wireless Ink operates a service called Winksite... 

The Zune HD2 will be the iPod Touch of the Windows Phone 7

The success story of the iPod Touch should be of interest to all gadget makers. It’s Apple’s biggest seller in the iPhone OS line and does almost everything that the iPhone does… it just doesn’t have phone guts inside. That may... 

Unity 3.0 will support iPad, Android, and PS3

Unity 3D, currently at version 2.6.1, is already a well-featured game development solution allowing deployment to web browser, PC, Mac, iPhone, Xbox 360 and Wii. But come this Summer, the release of Unity 3.0 promises to add a whole lot more. Unity technologies... 

HP takes a page from Apple’s book with a new Slate tease

Not content with being an also-ran, HP released a new teaser for its forthcoming Slate device that looks a lot like the latest iPad commercial that Apple aired during the Oscars. The commercial arrived just as Apple begun hyping up the iPad ahead of... 

Amazon to improve the Kindle’s browser

Users could be able to browse the whole web with the Kindle’s built-in web browser, including popular web apps that have become a part of our daily routine, WebMonkey observed Tuesday. The publication pointed its finger at a one-month old Amazon job... 

Apple hypes the iPad with a teaser advert aired during Osc

You know the drill: A catchy tune plus a fast-paced showing of key features. The latest iPad advert should keep fans focused ahead of the highly anticipated April 3 launch, but will it sell the couch computing gizmo to the general public? Apple aired... 

Awesome video walkthrough of Windows Phone 7 series

If you’ve dismissed Windows Phones based on the previous versions of Windows Mobile, you may want to give the platform a second chance. Based on this cool detailed walkthrough, we are now more excited about Windows Phone 7 series than ever before.... 

Coby debuts $85 smartbook

Just as we’ve learned about HiVision’s $99 Android-powered tablet coming out later this year, more cheap gadgets are being announced at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany. This one is a $85 smartbook from Coby, the company that presented a number... 

T-Mobile gets kudos from J.D. Power for retail customer sa

T-Mobile USA may not be tops in total subscribers or revenue when compared to its larger competitors including Verizon Wireless, Sprint and AT&T. Where they do have them beat is in wireless retail customer satisfaction according to J.D. Power and... 

Sony to stop Apple dead in its tracks with iPhone and iPad

Sony won’t put up with Apple’s aggressive expansion into its own turf anymore. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Walkman maker is prepping new devices for 2010 that will take aim at Apple’s iPhone and iPad. Furthermore, Sony... 

T-Mobile to give soccer fans a chance to win a fantastic t

In a new national campaign that just kicked off this week (pun intended), in which T-Mobile is giving fans who are crazy about the sport of soccer a chance to win some awesome prizes. It’s part of a new promotion called, El Llamado del Futbol (The... 

Geek.com newsletter – March 4, 2010 – The Right Tool f

After seeing OK Go’s incredible “This too Shall Pass” music video I was dying to write a newsletter entitled “In Praise of Complex Solutions.” Now that might be an appropriate (although unintentional) mantra for me, I think most people can... 

Google’s John Herlihy on the irrelevant desktop and brut

Google vice president of Global Ad Operations, John Herlihy, gave a talk at the Digital Landscapes Conference at UCD in Ireland this week. During that talk he focused on the growing importance of mobile, and Google’s brutal project and employee...