iPhone/Android: We’re rather fond of RunKeeper, a free app for keeping track of distance traveled while running and cycling, but one problem it had was that it continued logging your time even if you’d stop at a light or to tie your shoe. A new update fixes that and adds some new features. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FWeLfrBsqGM/runkeeper-updates-with-auto-pause-heart-rate-zones-and-more Taryn Manning Tatiana Zavialova Taylor Swift

As several of you noted in the comments to our post asking for cross-platform iOS/Android games, Words With Friends for Android does not provide the smoothest gaming experience… and that’s being rather charitable. You might be happy to hear that a couple of days ago Zynga released an update which promises to solve many of the Android-specific issues, such as notifications not popping up. Sadly, installing the update is not a smooth experience; you have [...]

HP has become the first major OEM to deliver support for Google Cloud Print in retail-boxed printers. In an official release, HP announced that its ePrint-enabled printers are now fully Cloud Print compatible. Just sign in to your Google account, pick your HP ePrint device, and you’re ready to fire off a print job from anywhere you’ve got Internet access. Well, as long as your app supports Cloud Print as well — like Gmail and [...]

HTC has made the Gingerbread kernel source for the EVO Shift 4G, HTC Thunderbolt, and Droid Incredible available for download on their developer center website.  As always, unless you're a kernel developer or ROM chef, this won't do too much for you — other than build anticipation for the awesome new flashables that will be coming soon for these three.  Devs, have at it.  And don't be afraid to holler at us when you get [...]

Panasonic may be on the cusp of launching a true pro-level successor to its excellent GF1, according to leaked photos. Ever since Panasonic started watering down its GF range of Micro Four Thirds cameras after the first model, curmudgeon’s (like me) have been griping. While Panasonic chased the point-and-shoot crowd with the GF2 and GF3, people [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/10/panasonic-gfx-photos-leaked-gf1-successor-at-last/ Mia Kirshner Mía Maestro Michael Michele

Google Voice Search has just introduced localizations for Latin America, Indonesia and Malaysia, enabling native language search for hundreds of millions of users. Google’s official blog post offers some interesting insights into the process of collecting and analyzing the speech data needed to expand support. Thousands of hours were spent gathering voice samples and choosing key regional accents to analyze, and International Program Manager Linne Ha is clearly very appreciative of the Google users who [...]

Research In Motion continues its trend of getting beaten up week after week with more and more bad news. This time, it had to swallow three separate helpings of trouble affecting everything from its PlayBook tablet to its as-yet unborn BBX operating system. It’s also going to have to deal with some fallout from the massive, days-long, world-wide service outage it suffered a couple of weeks ago. Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/73623.html Radha Mitchell Raquel Alessi Rebecca Mader

Apple may be seeing some success in the courts when it comes to its war on Samsung, but Samsung has the upper hand when it comes to sheer shipment numbers. According to market research firm Strategy Analytics, Samsung shipped 27.8 million smartphones globally during the third quarter of 2011, up from a mere 7.5 million [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/10/samsung-passes-apple-nokia/ Monica Potter Monika Kramlik Moon Bloodgood

Come spring, there’ll be a new drone in the Special Ops arsenal of annihilation. Call it … the Robotic Russian Doll of Death. Researchers from Naval Air Systems Command, Eglin Air Force Base, and engineering company Navmar Applied Science Corporation are already toiling away at the drone’s design, InsideDefense.com is reporting. And it’s wild: essentially one deadly drone shoved inside a bigger, more benign one. The petite, 13-foot Tigershark drone, already used for surveillance and [...]

Grain conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland has ordered three dry bulk carriers that blow bubbles to improve fuel efficiency. The boats, to be completed by 2014, rely on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ proprietary Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System (MALS). The setup uses massive blowers to create a layer of bubbles underneath an already streamlined hull in order to further [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/10/mitsubishi-builds-a-bubble-boat-for-better-efficiency/ Tamie Sheffield Tara Conner Tara Reed