Michelle Maisto

Some corporate bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies leave a majority of users feeling uncomfortable if not violated, according to a recent Harris survey commissioned by Fiberlink. BYOD policies enable employees to use their devices of choice and save employers from the costs of hardware purchases. Indeed, the rise of personal device ownership alongside belt-tightening measures has encouraged […]

If the Apple iPhone 5’s primary adversary is the Samsung Galaxy S III, then a device teardown by research firm IHS iSuppli offers a few barbs that supporters from both parties might trade, though whether they’ll sting or sway anyone is unlikely. The 10 million-plus people who purchased the Galaxy S III before Apple had […]

HTC has taken its One X smartphone—already a very nice phone, and a deal at the reduced price of $100 on the AT&T Wireless network—turbocharged it and renamed it the HTC One X+. Expect, still, a 4.7-inch display in a super-light polycarbonate shell that feels cool in the hand. But then come the changes. Android […]

Apple is readying invitations that will reach media inboxes Oct. 10 for an Oct. 17 event during which it will introduce the iPad Mini, according to a report from CNN Money. “This is a rumor we have no reason to believe excect it comes from a major Apple investor who says he’s heard it from […]

Ultrabook pricing needs to come down significantly, if PC manufacturers are to see the levels of shipments earlier forecast for the thin-and-light notebooks with Intel inside, California-based research firm IHS iSuppli reported Oct. 1. IHS dropped its 2012 Ultrabook shipment forecast from 22 million units to 10.3 million, adding that more than half the expected […]

The Apple iPhone 5 continues to make headlines, this time for a software glitch that caused some Verizon Wireless subscribers to too-quickly and wrongly face data overage fees. While their phones were connected to WiFi networks, they continued to pull data over Verizon’s cellular network. Within days of the iPhone 5’s arrival, users began complaining […]

Hewlett-Packard ships more PCs globally and in the United States than any other company. But in what some like to call a post-PC world, the Palo Alto-based company, as it struggles to find its new identity (Will or won’t it sell PCs? Will or won’t it sell mobile phones?) is on a downhill. Ahead of […]

Apple continues to expand its distribution of the iPhone 5, and on Sept. 28 made the smartphone available in an additional 22 countries. The news came as CEO Tim Cook issued an apology for Apple’s new Maps app. Apple fans in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, […]

AT&T took a break from selling record numbers of iPhone 5 smartphones to announce that later this year it will begin selling four additional LTE-enabled, Android-running smartphones from Apple competitor Samsung. While dates and pricing details are also still to come, Samsung and AT&T said Sept. 28 to expect the Samsung Galaxy Express, the Galaxy […]

T-Mobile CEO John Legere, on his seventh day on the job, announced that the carrier has reached an agreement with Crown Castle in which T-Mobile will transfer the rights of 7,200 of its towers for $2.4 billion in cash. The money will help T-Mobile in its “network modernization” strategy that includes the rollout of a […]

BlackBerry 10’s launch will be preceded by a global marketing campaign, Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins assured analysts during the company’s fiscal 2013 second-quarter earnings call Sept. 27. “I don’t want to go too much into detail here, because I don’t want to disclose how we’re going to do this,” Heins said on the […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is far from a comeback, particularly as competitors Apple and Samsung continue to grow their shares of the mobile smartphone market. But on the bright side, RIM’s fiscal 2013 second-quarter earnings call was far from the disaster of its first-quarter call, during which it had announced job cuts, a $518 […]