Michelle Maisto

Printing, of the good, old 2D variety, might these days strike a person as a somewhat passé industry. Hewlett-Packard, understanding this, has been making an effort to share more about exactly what it does, and how it does it, in hopes that people might better appreciate the effort that’s gone into—and the expertise that’s come […]

AT&T has faced an insistent, if possibly also irritating, competitor in T-Mobile, the CEO of which has made no secret of his intent to woo over AT&T subscribers and the “Un-carrier” strategies of which have forced AT&T to change the way it runs its business. But those new strategies, AT&T said during a July 23 […]

As mobile technology becomes more deeply connected to our personal, professional and even emotional lives, it’s also becoming more intimately acquainted with our physical selves. We scan our fingertips and eyeballs, wrap Bluetooth around our ears, strap phones to our biceps and perch cameras on our noses. Temporary tattoos, then, seem a rather obvious next […]

Google Apps for Business increasingly make sense for smaller companies and those needing to better support employees who need and want to work from anywhere, said Sprint, announcing the addition of Google’s cloud-based productivity tools to its portfolio, beginning Aug. 18. “We see a changing shift in the workforce. There’s much more of a drive […]

Apple announced the results of a “record” June quarter, during which it saw revenue of $37.4 billion, a net profit of $7.4 billion and its earnings per share grow to its highest rate in seven quarters. Despite every indication that Apple will introduce new iPhones in September, it sold 35.2 million units (an increase of […]

Apple is preparing for the greatest-ever response to its introduction of a new iPhone. The company—widely expected, in mid September, to introduce two sizes of a smartphone dubbed the iPhone 6 by the press—has placed orders with manufacturers for between 70 million and 80 million units, for delivery by year’s end, The Wall Street Journal […]

Sprint brands Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile will soon offer customers access to PlayPhone’s mobile gaming platform. The deal was announced July 22, opens a door that has until now been closed to customers of prepaid wireless service. “These customers have never been able to download games before,” PlayPhone CMO Anders Evju told eWEEK. PlayPhone […]

Yahoo has purchased mobile analytics firm Flurry, in hopes of improving its mobile advertising revenue. Flurry helps companies to better understand mobile users—its analytics software is in seven apps on a smartphone, on average—so that they can present them with the most appropriate and personalized ads possible. With the data it collects from 150 billion […]

BlackBerry has taken in stride leaks about its upcoming Passport smartphone—so much so that CEO John Chen chuckled to analysts, during the company’s last earnings call, that they should “go online and check it out,” as “all the information has already been leaked.” Now, added to the information they might find, is a video demonstration […]

Verizon has announced an improvement to its FiOS wireline broadband service. Starting July 21, new and existing customers can begin to expect upload speeds on par with their download speeds, at no additional cost. Previously, it was typical for upload speeds to be, at best, half as fast as download speeds. FiOS customers paying for […]

Samsung has offered Galaxy Gear owners the option to update their aging smartwatches to the software that’s run by its newer Gear 2. Noteworthy is that while the Gear runs Google’s Android OS, the Gear 2 runs the Samsung-backed Tizen. “The update is completely optional,” Samsung wrote in the second sentence of a very brief […]

An Early Look at the Amazon Fire Smartphone by Michelle Maisto Meet the Amazon Fire The Fire smartphone has a 4.7-inch In-Plane Switching (IPS), LCD HD display with “Dynamic Image Contrast” technology that makes for a great outdoor viewing experience. It also allows, in some instances, for a 3D-like experience. Amazon Fire OS The Fire […]