Verizon Wireless has announced that it has secured a new four-year agreement to become the official wireless service sponsor of the NFL. The title was previously held by competitor Sprint Nextel. The deal, which begins next month, includes NFL Mobile...

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 Winks...

9to5Mac’s editor and a Computerworld blogger Seth Weintraub reported Wednesday that the fourth beta of the iPhone 3.2 software development kit (SDK) could support a pair of brand new multitouch gestures that might be enabled on mobile devices power...

An ad war between HP and Apple is looming on the horizon, just in time for the iPad’s April 3 US debut. Forget about Verizon’s nasty ad attacks on Apple and AT&T, the computer giant Hewlett-Packard has taken aim at Apple and its iPad. HP’s...

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 direct...

Conventional wisdom has taught us that affordable 2.5-inch portable drives usually fall short in terms of capacity but OWC’s new 1TB model changes this notion. Mac and PC tech company Other World Computing has announced the OWC Mercury Elite-AL...

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...

iPad cases and sleeves are cropping up everywhere as the April 3 launch draws nearer with each passing day. Regardless of your taste, the $80 Vers wooden case for the iPad will stick in your mind the moment you see it. Like, now. Vers, the company th...

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 ma...

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could peek inside Apple’s contract with iPhone developers? Well, now you can, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and some legal wrestling. Apple’s license agreement that all iPhone developers must si...

Steve Ballmer has grown tired of all the iPhone bashing and is attempting to play nice. According to a new report, Microsoft’s chief executive has praised Apple for the creation of the App Store. The sweet talk came during a speech that Ballmer...

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 jo...

Is Internet access a fundamental human right? According to a BBC global study that we posted about yesterday, 79% of adults believe that it is. Whether or not you agree with that statement, one thing’s for sure: most people want free internet....

Keeping your gadgets juiced is a perpetual problem, and as gadgets become more and more power hungry, one that seems ever more intractable. It’s not a big deal to plug in a gadget, of course, but when your smartphone only lasts five hours at a...

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...

Apple’s lawsuit against HTC has apparently shaken rivals up to the point where they’re afraid to pursue multitouch. Some are even second-guessing their Android strategies and have allegedly become interested in switching back to Microsoft...

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 t...

Google has released a new version of the Android Native Developer Kit (NDK) and with it unlocked native library support and direct access to graphics interface OpenGL ES 2.0. Allowing developers direct access to OpenGL brings a number of advantages....

Verizon Wireless announced results of its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) field trials in Boston and Seattle. The trial consisted of data calls with streamed video, web browsing, file uploads and downloads, and calls using VoIP. Here’s the quick b...

When you buy a brand new HTC handset from a reputable network, the last thing you expect is for it to infect your PC with malware. But that’s apparently what has happened to one user who signed up for a HTC Magic with Vodafone. Panda Research B...