Don Reisinger

Microsoft had an inauspicious 2011. The company watched as its chief rivals, Google and Apple, continued to report rapid growth while it struggled to gain traction in the mobile technology market. Windows, while still popular, was under attack from all sides as Mac OS X’s star rose and Google delivered Chrome OS in the hopes […]

Apple Must Launch the Real iPhone 5 In 2011, all the talk surrounding Apples iPhone was what kind of features would be available in the iPhone 5. However, Apple responded to those rumors by unloading the iPhone 4S, a nominal upgrade over its predecessor. In 2012, Apple must launch the iPhone 5. Google Needs to […]

Apple’s Siri virtual personal assistant is one of the most coveted voice-control features ever launched. Although it’s currently available solely to iPhone 4S owners, people who own the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 are chomping at the bit to get the service onto their own devices. They’re so infatuated with it, in fact, that many […]

Tablets are all the rage. Consumers around the globe are flocking to stores to buy products like the Apple iPad or the Amazon Kindle Fire, and countless companies, seeing that trend, are trying to break into that market. From big companies to small, just about every tablet maker hopes it can deliver a product that […]

Windows Phone 7 is in a state of crisis. At last tally, the operating system owned just 1.5 percent of the market, and its chief competitor, Android, had over half the worldwide market in its pocket. Meanwhile, handset vendors have been showing off Windows Phone 7-based products that have failed to match Apple’s iPhone. Through […]

HP TouchPad The HP TouchPad was discontinued for a fundamental reason: It couldn’t match the quality of its competitors. Although the device sold well at $99, that was only because the price was reduced to the point where it became a bargain as HP discontinued the model and sought to clear out its inventory. The […]

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has historically been a place for some of the industry’s biggest names to showcase some of the ideas they’ve been working on in the prior year. Microsoft typically kicks off the show with a host of major announcements, and is followed by countless companies that try to fight for all […]

Microsoft had a rather interesting 2011. On one hand, the company did a fine job of appealing to consumers with products like its Xbox 360, which continued to see skyrocketing sales. But on the other hand, it lost the tablet space to Google and Apple, and handset makers have largely balked at providing the company […]

After months of battling competitors, lawmakers, unions and countless other stakeholders, AT&T announced earlier this week it has abandoned its bid to acquire T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom in a deal valued at $39 billion. The political environment for the deal was simply too much to justify fighting for the acquisition, and judging by the […]

Apple’s iPhone 4S, which launched just a few months ago, was the best handset released this year. From its solid design to the quality of its software, Apple’s handset went a long way in pushing the industry forward, and showing other handset makers how to build a device. Of course, there might be many out […]

Microsoft finds itself in a very bad spot in the mobile market. The company’s chief competitor, Android, is running away with the smartphone market. In the tablet space, Apple’s iOS is the go-to platform for most consumers and enterprise users. Microsoft, meanwhile, is trying to make Windows Phone 7 a desired choice for consumers in […]

RIM BlackBerry Bold Each year, Research In Motion launches a new Blackberry Bold smartphone model. And each year, it falls short. Oddly, RIM continues to bring a small display and physical keyboard to the device. With repeated BlackBerry service outages annoying enterprise users around the globe, it wasn’t a good year to be a BlackBerry […]