Washington state AG joins federal antitrust lawsuit taking on Apple’s smartphone dominance Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson wants to help take a bite out of Apple’s dominance in the smartphone market,… Read More
‘Alexa Built-In’ phones to lose key feature as Amazon cedes ground to Apple and Google Unlike Google and Apple, Amazon doesn’t have a smartphone platform of its own for native integration of its voice assistant,… Read More
Alaska Airlines plane evacuated in Seattle after passenger’s Samsung cell phone catches fire A cell phone fire in the cabin of an Alaska Airlines plane forced the emergency evacuation of passengers after the… Read More
Microsoft Defender software to combat malware on iOS and Android mobile platforms Microsoft is bringing its fight against cyber criminals to more smartphone users as the tech giant announced Thursday that its… Read More
Play Episode Podcast A reckoning for the gig economy: Why Amazon and Uber are facing new scrutiny over contract workers Play From package delivery to ride-hailing, companies including Amazon and Uber are facing new scrutiny over their use of contract workers… Read More
Would you ditch your smartphone for Teracube? Tech vets offer sustainable, affordable alternative Just two days after yet another Apple event promoting another new iPhone, a small tech company in Redmond, Wash., called… Read More
The Phone Diet: How I cut back on my favorite technology — and why it made a big difference I love my phone. Here’s the proof. It never leaves my side. Every day I spend hours using it, checking… Read More
Univ. of Washington studies compulsive phone use: what triggers us to look and what makes us stop Heads up, smartphone addicts. New research from the University of Washington provides some insight into what triggers us to partake… Read More
Play Episode Podcast Can you live without a smartphone? This flip phone fan has done it for 13 years and will teach you how Play When I first sat down with Michael Valeri, a Seattle data analyst who has been using a flip phone for… Read More
Report: Apple’s new iPhone will be called the ‘XS’ and there will be a gold color option Apple announced Thursday that its next “special event” will take place on Sept. 12 at the Steve Jobs Theater on… Read More
Put down your devices and be a kid while you still can: Advice for graduating 5th graders, and all of us My 11-year-old son’s transition from elementary school to middle school will bring with it plenty of big changes. There will be… Read More
Flip-phone-using Warren Buffett owns a lot of Apple stock, but he says he’s ‘out of touch’ on iPhone He drinks Coca-Cola and eats at Dairy Queen, presumably in part to promote the stocks and companies owned by… Read More
Apple apologizes for lack of clarity on iPhone slowdowns — and will sell $29 replacement batteries A bruised Apple issued a letter of apology to customers on Thursday, a week after the tech giant had to… Read More
A $1 case for your $1,000 phone? Moment’s new cardboard box is a joke that you can actually buy A day after Apple caused the tech world to pause and take notice with its usual splashy reveal of new… Read More
NYPD is ditching 36K Windows Phones and replacing them with Apple iPhones We’ve all seen our technology become obsolete much faster than we hope or anticipate, but this case is a little… Read More
UW team creates smartphone selfie system to screen for pancreatic cancer University of Washington researchers have created a smartphone app that can let users screen themselves for pancreatic cancer and other… Read More
Celebrating the Moment: Smartphone lens and case maker toasts as it reaches $500K Kickstarter goal Champagne was popping at the Seattle offices of Moment on Friday morning after the smartphone lens and case maker reached… Read More
iPhone lens and case maker Moment adds Pixel products to its Kickstarter as it nears $500K goal The folks at Moment, the Seattle-based makers of lenses and cases for a range of iPhone sizes, are spreading the… Read More
GeekWire Poll: Will you buy the new iPhone 7? Now that the news is out there, and Apple has unveiled the tweaks that went into making iPhone 7 what… Read More
Study: Tech-savvy millennials are more likely to unplug on vacation Millennials are often called the digital generation, but perhaps a lifetime online has taught them the importance of unplugging from… Read More
Fire Phone, two years later: Yes, a few people are still using Amazon’s ill-fated smartphone In the summer of 2015, Don Driscoll, an associate professor of physics at Kent State University, was ready to renew… Read More
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on the Fire Phone: ‘We’re working on much bigger failures right now’ Jeff Bezos loves failure. He often describes it as a necessity for invention, innovation, and eventually success. Fortunately, Bezos has… Read More
Court rules that text sender could be responsible for car accident caused by distracted recipient Text-message senders, beware: U.S. courts are moving ever-closer to blaming the sender of a text for car accidents that occur… Read More
Smart mattress designed to detect cheating will send alert to your phone so you can rest easy A mattress company in Spain wants you to rest easy thanks to technology it has developed to alert you if… Read More
Nintendo launching first smartphone app, Miitomo, in U.S. on Thursday While Nintendo pioneered portable gaming with the GameBoy, it has struggled to keep up with the rise of the smartphone and… Read More
Smartwatch this: Sonar technology developed at UW tracks finger movement in mid-air Using your fingers to type or track on mobile devices or ever-smaller smartwatch screens can be problematic for some of… Read More
Travelers would pick smartphone over toothbrush, deodorant or driver’s license, Expedia study finds Imagine your perfect travel companion. Is it your partner? Your best friend? Someone out of the latest Sports Illustrated? Well,… Read More
Microsoft’s Continuum doesn’t make a smartphone a full PC quite yet, but it shows promise NEW YORK — Microsoft gave the press a chance to try out its Continuum feature on Tuesday, demonstrating how the… Read More
AT&T sues former workers, alleging secret scheme to unlock hundreds of thousands of phones AT&T has filed suit against former employees alleged to have been paid tens of thousands of dollars to install malware on company computers… Read More
Samsung debuts bigger phones, hardware keyboards and mobile payment system Samsung had a big day today, announcing a larger version of the Galaxy S6 Edge, an updated Galaxy Note, its… Read More
