Michelle Maisto

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer At the end of October, Microsoft will introduce its Window 8 software for tablets and PCs and Windows Phone 8 software for smartphones. Taking no chances on the success of Windows 8, Microsoft developed its own tablet, the Surface. So far, it is trusting partners to create smartphones that make consumers […]

NEW YORK – HTC and Microsoft introduced the Windows Phone 8X and 8S at a Sept. 19 event, marking the next phase in what the pair said was a 15-year relationship. Exceptionally thin and featuring soft-to-the-touch materials, the smartphones are wrapped in primary shades of red, yellow, blue and black that bring to mind Nokia’s […]

Apple was expected to play catch-up to its Android competitors by introducing an iPhone 5 with a larger display and support for Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology and near-field communication (NFC)-the technology behind a number of mobile payment solutions. NFC shipped on more than 106 million Android smartphones in 2011, and with the backing of an […]

AT&T is now accepting registration materials from companies that would like to sign up for its Enhanced Push-to-Talk (PTT) services. They will officially become available in November. Can’t wait until then? AT&T understands such impatience and so is also offering an “early access” program in which customers can activate a beta version of Enhanced PTT […]

Apple sold more than 2 million iPhone 5 smartphones in the first 24 hours that it was available for preorder. This was more than double the record set by the iPhone 4S nearly a year ago, Apple said in a Sept. 17 statement. AT&T announced the same morning that customers had ordered record numbers of […]

Apple is expected to sell quite a few iPhone 5 handsets this year. Investment firm Jefferies has calculated that 170 million global smartphone subscribers will come out of their contracts in the second half of 2012, and 450 million more will do so in 2013. Contracts aside, Topeka Capital analyst Brian White expects the iPhone […]

The Apple iPad received top honors in J.D. Power and Associates’ first study on tablet satisfaction in the United States. While Samsung has emerged as Apple’s primary adversary, it was instead the Amazon Kindle that took second place, while Samsung was rated third with a score below the industry average. The nearly 2,000 tablet owners […]

Apple iPhone 5 The most important thing to know about the iPhone 5 is that it features a 4-inch Retina display with a 16:9 aspect ratio and 1136 by 640 resolution, breaking the 3.5-inch tradition of past iPhones. “It’s an absolute jewel,” said Phil Schiller, Apple vice president of marketing, introducing the smartphone Sept. 12 […]

The iPhone 5 Is Pretty Darn Thin The iPhone 5 measures 7.6mm thin, besting the Samsung Galaxy S III, which measures 8.6mm, and the HTC One X, at 8.89mm. But This Fujitsu Smartphone Is Thinner Still, Apple’s claim that that the iPhone 5 is the “thinnest and lightest phone ever” isn’t exactly true. As tech […]

Apple introduced the iPhone 5 Sept. 12, and among the rumors that held up-and an impressive percentage did-was the news that Apple had done away with the 30-pin dock connector that has been a mainstay through the last five incarnations of iPhones, and even since the third-generation iPod made its 2003 debut, according to MacWorld. […]

T-Mobile will not be among the U.S. carriers that will begin selling the iPhone 5 Sept. 21. And for this, it’s relatively lucky, suggests a new report from Copenhagen-based research firm Strand Consult. The Apple iPhone 5 offered “no big surprises,” the firm’s analysts wrote in the Sept. 12 report that, from the perspective of […]

Apple is expected to introduce an iPhone 5 at its planned Sept. 12 event, and what follows, by any number of accounts, should be dramatic. JPMorgan Chase analyst Michael Feroli has suggested that the smartphone’s arrival could actually boost the entire U.S. economy by up to half a percent. Topeka Capital analyst Brian White has […]