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Amazon is opening an app store, HP tells Android it's not you it's me, and apps that can save your life. Join Justin Eckhouse and Jessica Dolcourt as they dig into the stories making news in the Android world this week.

Amazon's Android App Store http://www.cnet.com/8301-19736_1-20018078-251.html

Survey: Developers favor Android over Apple long-term http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20017903-37.html

HP officially drops Android plans, focusing on "PalmPad" WebOS tablet … Read more

I'm about to start Road Trip 2010, my fifth annual journey through a region of the United States in search of some of the most interesting places to write about and photograph.

As in previous years, the trip will focus heavily on what interests me--and hopefully my readers--as a self-professed geek. After all, this blog is called Geek Gestalt. And that will take me to high-tech research labs, military bases, a motorcycle factory, NASA facilities, and much more.

Being a traveling geek reminded me of the great book "The Geek Atlas" by British author John Graham-Cumming. That … Read more

Motorola has big plans for its iPhone 4 killer, including a 2Ghz processor. Norton Security is out to defend against Android viruses, but do they exist? What's the deal with the Droid 2, the Droid X, and the HTC Aria? Join Justin Eckhouse along with guest hosts Bonnie Cha and Wilson Tang for a special Android Atlas Weekly from New York.

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Sprint Overstates Early EVO 4G Sales

Motorola Droid for Verizon gets a price drop

Droid 2, Droid X prepped for summer launches… Read more

Today will be my last day writing for iPhone Atlas. It's hard to imagine that I've written or contributed to more than 450 posts during my nearly two-year tour of duty with CNET's iPhone Atlas.

I have been serving up news, break fixes, tips, etc. to more users than I ever could have imagined, and I'm grateful that I had the opportunity to do so. I have always been greatly humbled by your reader responses, and I have had an amazing time meeting some really great people along the way.

If you would like to stay … Read more

If you've ever tried visiting iPhone Atlas on your iPhone, you've no doubt noticed that Safari automatically gets redirected to m.iphoneatlas.com, the mobile version of the blog.

That's not a bad thing--the mobile version makes it much easier to browse and view the latest posts. Or it would, if it wasn't broken.

See, when you tap any post title, you land on a page that contains only a summary of that post, not the full article. It's a bug--a pretty major one, obviously--and I apologize for it.

Make no mistake: We're keenly … Read more

There is something refreshing about occasionally doing prep work without the need to plug anything in. The knife may be the ultimate in manually operated prep tools, but when it comes to specialty preparation, usually there is an energy-eating gadget on hand. Pasta preparation, even though it is thousands of years old, is no exception in the modern world.

The Italian-made Atlas Pasta Machine is a perfect example of old-timey tech that still has a place in today's kitchen. The hand-crank machine creates four types of pasta in a variety of thicknesses. With a few turns of the handle, … Read more

User-generated data may be the answer to the GPS navigation industry's problem of outdated maps on user devices, say industry voices.

According to Ed Parsons, Google's geospatial technologist, the reason users encounter inaccurate road layouts and landmark placements on their GPS devices is that it takes a long time getting updated maps to users.

From the mapping of roads to getting the maps updated and onto distribution channels such as garages, people can expect their maps to be over two years old, even on new devices, Parsons said in an interview with ZDNet Asia.

Even buying maps online … Read more

Well, you don't really need to totally disregard this episode, but that is what 10-12 means in CB radio talk. And the news is light. Although we do learn that the head of MI6's Speedo is not a state secret. But it SHOULD be!

MI6 boss in Facebook entry row http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8134807.stm

Small towns and farms to get Net Neutrality http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10278484-94.html

Apple orders up a ton of … Read more

"The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive" by John Graham-Cumming could be the answer to the yearly Father's Day gift dilemma.(Although I know a lot of women who would love this book, too.)

Graham-Cumming's book is not of the tacky so-and-so-slept-here variety, but a compendium of locations of true worth in the history of science and tech breakthroughs.

The book, which is organized by country, includes latitudes and longitudes for GPS devices, and info like whether a historical site is free or available for a price. It's heavy on U.… Read more