In an effort to solve the biggest complaint about their new wireless earbuds, Apple announced Tuesday it will release a “Find My AirPods” feature as part of iOS 10.3. The feature,… Read More
This week on Geared Up, the consumer technology and gadget show from GeekWire and Andru Edwards, we go hands on with Apple’s new $159 AirPods, the wireless earbuds that were released… Read More
Pokémon Go has finally arrived on the Apple Watch, with one big catch. Using the app, players can get items from PokéStops, locate nearby Pokémon, and count steps to hatch… Read More
Apple fanboys and girls who aren’t satisfied with just spending $700 on a new iPhone or $1,800 on a new MacBook have another type of book that they can drop… Read More
(Updated at 10:25 a.m. with more accurate iPhone sales numbers and clarification on smart speaker market). Allow me to take you back to the not-so-distant past. The year was 2007,… Read More
CreativeLive, the online education startup that helps users get smarter about everything from photography to music to money, is getting smarter itself about how to deliver its vast array of information. The… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: We talk about Amazon’s mysterious grocery store plans, analyze the impact of Samsung pulling the Galaxy Note 7 from the market, and stage an… Read More
Updated story: Apple has addressed and fixed an issue with iOS 10 that was causing T-Mobile customers with iPhone 5SE, 6 or 6 Plus to lose connectivity this week. News… Read More
With most of the guesswork eliminated, as usual, by rumors ahead of its big event, Apple unveiled signature product updates Wednesday in San Francisco — but brought along a few surprises… Read More
“Find everything you need for the new iPhone 7,” Amazon announced on a special landing page Wednesday morning … before there was official word of a new iPhone 7. The… Read More
Those in the business of theorizing what Apple will do next when it comes to the iPhone and other products have been extra busy in the lead up to Wednesday’s media event.… Read More
Apple fans waiting for definitive news on likely iPhone updates and more have a date to look forward to: Sept. 7. Officials invitations went out Monday for the event to be… Read More
Turn down the “Yentl” soundtrack, we’ve got fresh Barbra Streisand news you need to hear. On a promotional swing for her new album “Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway,” Streisand made a… Read More
Remember, that one time, when you dropped your phone from 3 feet above the ground and it totally shattered? Well, apparently the trick is to drop the phone from 2,500 feet… Read More
This week’s App of the Week is designed to move family management off the fridge and onto the phone or tablet. Picniic is a family organizer, an “operating system for your home,”… Read More
Apple said today that it reached a milestone last week, selling its billionth iPhone nine years after the company’s smartphone debuted. Apple CEO Tim Cook made the announcement Wednesday at an employee… Read More
In a bid to improve on the native iPhone camera app, Microsoft Research today released a new smart camera app for iPhone, Microsoft Pix, that specializes in photos of people and uses… Read More
Apple’s revenue beat modest Wall Street expectations in the June quarter, but its business in China took a big hit. Revenue in the Greater China region, a market CEO Tim Cook has said… Read More
Word Flow is a fully customizable, super fast, swipe-to-text keyboard that allows iOS users to type easily and efficiently with one hand. A Microsoft Garage project, it’s meant in part to… Read More
The Wall Street Journal this week reported that the next iteration of the iPhone will not have a headphone jack, confirming rumors that have been swirling for a while. If the report… Read More
Triller is the app for anyone who has ever wished their life was a music video. It’s free, easy to use, a lot of fun, and perhaps more pragmatic than… Read More
Apple’s “Shot on iPhone” ad campaign relies on imagery created by users to convey the simplest message possible: it’s pretty easy to make something pretty compelling. Or, when it comes to… Read More
Microsoft has agreed to sell its entry-level phone business for $350 million in a deal that will result in the Nokia brand returning on mobile phones and tablets, but this time running the… Read More
Moment, the Seattle startup with the goal of turning smartphones into premium cameras, has raised $3 million in a new round of funding. The company is also now selling its Mobile Photography… Read More
This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: A new study by the University of Washington questions the effectiveness of the two-minute warning when it comes to ending kids’ screen time.… Read More
Gear we couldn’t live without 10 or 20 or many more years ago may seem ridiculously outdated in the face of modern technology, but Time magazine’s new list of the 50 Most… Read More
Seattle-based Haiku Deck, the app designed for creating beautiful presentations, presented some exciting news of its own Thursday with the release of an updated version that is truly native to iPhone. Haiku… Read More
PODCAST SPONSOR This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: Amazon challenges Netflix with a monthly streaming subscription option for $8.99/month, and GeekWire reporter James Risley shares what learned from his month… Read More
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft’s Windows Phone devices and Windows 10 Mobile operating system got barely a mention today at the Build developer conference here, highlighting the company’s struggle to compete against Apple, Google, Samsung… Read More
The FBI has officially unlocked the iPhone used by a terrorist during the December attack in San Bernardino after Apple consistently refused to help the FBI in decrypting the phone’s data, arguing that breaking into… Read More