A professor of business surveyed more than 9,000 managers and workers and found a familiar paradox: nearly everyone considers email checking and texting during face-to-face meetings rude, but most people still do it. She suggests more meeting breaks fix the problem. In a longer piece about the nature of “incivility” and how younger workers’ familiarity...

Android smartphones outsell the iPhone this quarter, Microsoft make their upcoming online suite Office Web Apps free to the public, and everyone is upset about Facebook’s privacy policies. Android Now Outselling iPhone [REPORT] Android smartphones outsold the iPhone in the first quarter of 2010, accounting for 28 percent of the market share versus the iPhone’s...

Strap on your seatbelts, Android fans: Google has a new tool in its Google Goggles Android app, and it’s time to take it for a test drive. Google announced the debut of its Google Goggles image-based text translation feature this morning. The feature, integrated into the new 1.1 version of the Goggles app, allows you to point your phone’s camera at any block...

What do you do when one of your employees takes your company’s top-secret prototype and leaves it behind in a beer garden, only to have it end up in the hands of a gadget blog? Call in the authorities and let them play the heavy. The whole Gizmodo iPhone prototype story just got a whole lot stranger after a team of high-tech police investigators broke into...

Guys, want to get girls? Then buy yourself an iPhone. According to a survey of 1500 women carried out on behalf of Phones4U, men who own an iPhone are more attrative than those who don’t. The retailer said today that 54 per cent of respondents said they would more likely date a fellow if he owns an iPhone. Just over a third of them – 37 per cent – said...

Photos of what appears to be Apple’s next-generation iPhone have been leaked on the Internet by technology news websites, which claim it’s a yet-unreleased gadget from the company. According to reports, it seems someone left the device on a bar stool after having a drink in Redwood City, Calif. — just a few miles from Apple headquarters. Gizmodo identified...

Apple has announced that the demand for the iPad in the US is so high they will be forced to delay shipments to the rest of the world by one month. International customers will now have to wait until the end of May to get their hands on Apple’s “magical” device. The company has sold more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, and continues to fill...

Your original or second generation iPhone won’t get all the benefits of the new iPhone 4.0 features, tax refunds this year are 10 percent larger than last year, and in the next update, crashing Firefox plug-ins will no longer kill your browser. Original iPhones, 3G Can’t Fully Upgrade to iPhone OS 4 Bad news for original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod touch...

We’ll keep coverage down to this single post: today the Apple iPad launches in the US. At this stage just the WiFi-only version of the iPad will be available, with prices starting from $499 for the 16GB edition and rising to $699 for the most capacious 64GBer. 3G enabled models will launch in ‘late April’, which is believed to be inline with international...

When we highlighted tests comparing the accuracy of touchscreens on popular smartphones (like iPhone, Droid, and Nexus One), many critics rightfully pointed out the potential for human error in the original human-driven DIY tests. What happens when a robot performs the test? As you can see in the video above and comparison image below, turns out there’s not...