HouseKeeper won’t actually straighten up your house, but it will remind you to do easily forgotten chores. When was the last time you checked your dryer’s vent tube? My guess is this serious fire hazard slipped your mind, as it routinely does mine. Speaking of fires, isn’t it time you replaced the batteries in your …

Motorola Devour Verizon Wireless Though we always want to be amazed with new phone releases, occasionally a cell phone manufacturer will unveil a device that feels lackluster. At first glance, the new Motorola Devour appears to be that type of phone, but upon closer inspection, it promises to hold its own in Verizon Wireless’ lineup. Rather than releasing a successor …

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Comcast and NBC Universal executives went to Washington, D.C., on Thursday to answer lawmakers’ questions about the proposed deal for Comcast to buy a controlling stake in the media and network TV giant. In separate subcommittee hearings, lawmakers in the House of Representatives and the Senate questioned Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and NBC Universal President and CEO Jeff Zucker. Specifically, …

The Motorola Devour is chomping its way into the USA, offering the brain of the Motorola Dext packed into a body like the Motorola Milestone. The Devour has Motoblur, the user interface and online backup tools that we saw on the Dext, with home-screen widgets that automatically update with Facebook statuses and tweets. It also offers a universal inbox that …

Now playing: Watch this: Multitouch on the Nexus One 2:36 We cheated a little, but we couldn’t wait until Google flipped the switch to deliver this week’s software update to our Nexus One. We just had to have that mutlitouch, so we grabbed the update online and loaded it on our phone. It involves a few steps (Android Forums has …

In the grand tradition of the Ginsu Knife, App Genie is 27, 27, 27 apps in one! Even if you find only a handful of them useful, you’re definitely getting your 99 cents’ worth. App Genie’s one-screen interface displays 20 attractive icons, which unfortunately are arranged randomly rather than alphabetically. Thus, finding what you’re after (like, say, the tip calculator) …

It has taken almost a year, but on Thursday AT&T said it will start allowing Sling Media’s SlingPlayer to work over its 3G network on the iPhone. SlingPlayer, which redirects TV signals from a home TV over the Internet so it can be viewed on a portable device, like cell phones or laptops, is the latest application that AT&T is …

The mobile operating system Symbian has been completely open-sourced, comfortably within the two-year time frame set for the migration project in 2008. On Thursday, the Symbian Foundation–the not-for-profit industry group set up by Nokia and other manufacturers to open up and give away the OS–said all Symbian source code, comprising 108 packages, was now available for free under the Eclipse …

Deutsche Telekom is looking into an initial public offering that could lead to spinning off T-Mobile USA, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal Thursday afternoon. The newspaper reported that the German phone company has held talks with banks about underwriting the IPO. Unnamed sources in the story said the proceeds from the offer could be used to …

In our first look at the Google Nexus One, we loved its honking great 94mm (3.7-inch) AMOLED screen and speedy Android 2.1 user interface. Google will be bundling the phone with a Vodafone contract starting in the spring, but why wait? You can buy it right now without a contract — and either way, the phone is sold unlocked so …

It’s J.D. Power and Associates time again! The marketing information firm that loves to give awards spun out another this week with its 2010 wireless customer care performance study. Verizon Wireless emerged as the winner with an index score of 753 points on a 1,000-point scale. Verizon’s score was 14 points higher than the industry average. This wasn’t a total …

Cable companies may be raking in profits as they add more broadband subscribers, but price-sensitive consumers may only be a discount away from ditching them. On Wednesday Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, announced it had more than doubled its fourth-quarter earnings, due in large part to a promotional push that resulted in 247,000 new high-speed Internet subscribers. Time Warner …

The Google Nexus One is sending us into a feeling frenzy this week thanks to a software update that adds multi-touch, letting you pinch your fingers against the screen to zoom in and out, in the Web browser, photo gallery and Google Maps applications. This fixes one of our few complaints in our review of the Nexus One, and also …

Sony Ericsson is dreaming in green, taking yet another GreenHeart phone from prototype to reality. This time it’s the suits that get to flaunt their eco savvy, with the Sony Ericsson Aspen, a Windows Mobile phone with a full Qwerty keyboard and a touchscreen. This is one of the few times we’ve seen a phone that rocks a Qwerty keyboard …