Michelle Maisto

Microsoft announced the global availability of its long-awaited Windows 8 platform at a New York City event Oct. 25, along with its Surface tablet running Windows RT, a version of the OS for ARM-based tablets. “This is probably the most important announcement of Microsoft’s history since the launch of its Windows 3.0 in 1990,” Malik […]

Welcome Committee One new pop-up store is located at the Time Warner Center, on the southwest corner of New York City’s Central Park. People entering the mall were greeted by Microsoft, which offered some hands-on time with the Surface RT. Kiosk Unlike a new holiday store in Times Square, the Time Warner store is little […]

Sprint lagged behind AT&T and Verizon Wireless in offering the iPhone, and even after it acquired the iconic device, it was left to make do without the iPad. All that is about to change. Apple shared Oct. 23 that Sprint, along with AT&T and Verizon, will soon begin offering LTE-enabled versions of the fourth-generation iPad […]

Sprint had a busy fiscal 2012 third quarter that included negotiating to sell 70 percent of its business to Japanese carrier Softbank for $20.1 billion, negotiating with Apple to offer its first iPads and keeping to the timetable of its Network Vision strategy, which includes rolling out Long Term Evolution (LTE) 4G technology, closing down […]

AT&T posted the results of a rather shocking fiscal 2012 third quarter Oct. 24. While a financial success, the nation’s second-largest carrier added only 151,000 new postpaid customers during the quarter—a low it hadn’t seen since 2003. Market leader Verizon Wireless, by contrast, added 1.5 million postpaid subscribers during its third quarter, it announced Oct. […]

Apple has sold 100 million iPads, and these devices now account for 91 percent of tablet traffic, Apple shared during an Oct. 23 event that it capped with the introduction of the iPad Mini. The Mini is the first iPad to break from the form factor that the late Steve Jobs introduced in 2010, reigniting […]

AT&T was hobbled by Apple’s iPhone 5 in the third quarter—there were only 10 days during the period to sell the long-awaited devices, and inventory quickly ran low—resulting in only 151,000 net new subscribers during the three months, a fraction of what Wall Street expected and competitor Verizon Wireless added. During those 10 days, AT&T […]

The Samsung Galaxy Note II has a 5.5-inch display on the diagonal, which is arguably its defining feature. It’s for people who want an unapologetically big smartphone. Or really, a phablet—a device that strives to be equal parts smartphone and tablet, and in this it generally succeeds. Like Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone, it feels […]

Apple iPad Mini The iPad Mini features a 7.9-inch Multi-Touch display, weighs 0.68 pounds and is 7.2mm thin. It’s 23 percent thinner and 53 percent lighter than the third-generation iPad, and boasts 35 percent more screen real estate than its 7-inch competitors and 67 percent more viewable area in a browser. Apple iPad Mini The […]

Apple fans got an iPad Mini, as expected, at an Oct. 23 event, but also so much more. Over roughly 75 minutes, Apple executives introduced a 13-inch MacBook Pro with a Retina display; two all-in-one iMacs with displays that thin to just 5mm; an even more mini Mac Mini; a fourth-generation 9.7-inch iPad with an […]

Nokia introduced the Lumia 510 for emerging markets Oct. 23. While that’s a group Nokia has so far addressed with its Asha line, with the 510, it’s showing it has figured out how to fit the Lumia Windows Phone experience into a device for $199. That’s not $199 after subsidy with a contract; that’s $199 […]

Android applications in the Google Play store have made the banking credentials and other private information of many as 185 million users vulnerable to exposure, according to a report from Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, and Philipps University of Marburg, Germany, picked up in Ars Technica. The report, presented at the Computer and Communications Security […]