Michelle Maisto

Samsung and Apple are headed back to the San Jose, Calif., courtroom of U.S District Judge Lucy Koh, where each is expected to dispute an August ruling in which a jury found Samsung to have infringed on Apple-owned patents and ordered the Korean company to pay Apple $1.05 billion in damages. During their Dec. 6 […]

Nokia has introduced two new Windows Phone 8 devices, the Nokia Lumia 620, now the most budget-friendly Lumia to run Microsoft’s newest operating system, and the Nokia Lumia 920T—the first TD-SCMA Windows Phone in China. For the Lumia 620, Nokia developed a new dual-shot color technique, which it describes as adding “a second layer of […]

AT&T is hoping to simplify customers’ wireless lives with the introduction of video bills—personalized, automatically generated videos with animations and a voice narration of a wireless bill. “This video bill is not a generic overview,” John Donovan, AT&T senior executive vice president, said in a Dec. 4 blog post, “but a line-by-line visual and audio […]

NCR, the 128-year-old company that once went by the more formal National Cash Register and at the turn of the last century developed the first electronic register and then automated credit systems, describes itself as being at the “center of the self-service revolution.” On Dec. 5 it introduced NCR Mobile Pay, a cloud-based solution for […]

Ericsson filed a patent-infringement complaint against Samsung with the International Trade Commission (ITC) Nov. 30, days after it filed a similar suit with a U.S. District Court in Texas. The complaint, originally reported by the IDG News Service, asks the ITC to exclude from entry into the United States “certain consumer electronics, including mobile phones, […]

Nokia announced that it has reached a deal to sell and lease back its multi-building headquarters in Espoo, Finland. Exilion Capital, a Finnish real estate investment firm, has agreed to buy the headquarters for about $222 million. The 500,000-plus-square-foot steel-and-glass building sits on the Gulf of Finland. It was designed by Finnish architect Pekka Helin […]

The iPhone 5 and Apple’s loyal fan base continues to impact the U.S. smartphone market, according a Dec. 4 report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech USA that offers a glimpse at the that market during the 12 weeks leading up to Oct. 28. The iPhone 5 became available on the AT&T, Sprint and Verizon Wireless networks […]

To Call or to Text? Since the first text message was sent 20 years ago, the format has become commonplace to users. Nearly half of adults between the ages of 18 and 34 now believe texting is “as meaningful” a way to communicate as a phone call, according to the latest Simmons National Consumer Study. […]

AT&T held an analyst event in a still-Sandy-devastated New York City Nov. 7 to introduce Project Velocity IP (VIP), its plan for expanding and enhancing its wireless and wireline IP broadband networks and driving “continued increases in revenue.” Harold Feld, senior vice president of the consumer advocacy group Public Knowledge, has called AT&T’s announcement “the […]

The Apple iPhone 5 is headed for new corners of the world. The smartphone will arrive in South Korea Dec. 7, and in more than 50 additional new countries Dec. 14, Apple said in a Dec. 3 statement. The iPhone 5 is already in 47 countries. It went on sale in the United States, Australia, […]

New York City Small-Business Scene In New York City, 99 percent of businesses are considered small. According to Nov. 29 SAP report, 94 percent of SME founders said “growth” was their top priority. (The bottom of Manhattan is portrayed here, with Brooklyn to its right and New Jersey at left.) Talent Search Following growth, the […]

Nokia has quashed rumors that it has eyes for Google’s Android mobile operating system. After the Finnish phone maker placed a help-wanted ad for a software engineer with expertise in Linux—which Android is built on—the media began wondering whether Nokia was looking to expand its platform support beyond Microsoft’s Windows Phone. “Our recently posted job […]