Michelle Maisto

Apple’s smaller iPad will most certainly, almost definitely be called the “iPad Mini,” Japanese tech site Macotakara reported Aug. 28, keeping the rumor mill turning with its confirmation of a name for a device Apple has yet to acknowledge it’s developing. Macotakara’s news, which it says is based on sources in Asia, comes after months […]

Sprint has teamed with Vision Wireless to offer business customers a bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, management solution. This new offering helps to round out the carrier’s suite of professional mobility services, which includes device management and mobility management offerings. Pete Parish, senior product marketing manager with Sprint, said that with each of the services in the […]

Since Research In Motion delayed the launch of BlackBerry 10, January has become a finish line of sorts: RIM needs to reach its new launch date for its long-promised transformation to begin. Defending the delay, CEO Thorsten Heins has insisted that RIM is not updating its operating system but building an entirely new platform. “Nothing […]

Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins promises that BlackBerry 10 will offer mobile users something unlike anything they’ve seen before. “Nothing from BlackBerry 7 is in BlackBerry 10, nothing,” Heins told eWEEK during an interview Aug. 14. He clarified, however, that the DNA is the same, so the experience will still feel intuitive to the […]

Apple is expected to introduce the iPhone 5 Sept. 12-after which it’s going to be no easy feat for its competitors to grab a headline or pull attention away from the smartphone that Apple fans have been waiting for since essentially last October. Because of this, you can expect a whole lot of news to […]

Samsung will likely make more dollars per each Galaxy Note 10.1 it sells than Apple makes on its iPad, IHS iSuppli reported Aug. 24, following a teardown of the newest Samsung tablet. However, there’s a big if involved. Samsung continues to “seek the magic formula” that will enable it to rival Apple’s share of the […]

Thorsten Heins, amid pressure from shareholders, was promoted from chief operating officer to chief executive officer of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion in January, replacing co-founder and CEO Mike Lazaridis and co-CEO Jim Balsillie. The pair had together built a smartphone solution that analysts called the gold standard, with devices so addictive they earned the […]

On Where RIM Went Wrong “When ‘bring your own device’ started—the consumerization of enterprise—it made us lose some [market share]. When the consumer hit the enterprise with BYOB … there was the thought, ‘They’re going to go back to corporate liable, it’s not secure enough.’” On What Customers Can Expect From BlackBerry 10 “What you […]

The worldwide PC market is expected to grow in 2012, if only by a fraction of a percentage, IDC reported Aug. 23, citing economic conditions and consumers’ wait-and-see attitudes for the market’s second consecutive year of growth below 2 percent. By year’s end, IDC expects PC totals to creep to 367.2 million, up from the […]

A new Federal Communications Commission report concluded that about 19 million Americans, mostly in rural areas of the United States, still lack access to high-speed Internet services. The commission’s eighth annual report on broadband access also found the country’s tribal areas lack these modern services. “In an era when broadband is essential to innovation, jobs […]

Verizon Wireless offers the highest-ranking wireless network performance, according to J.D. Power and Associates’ “Wireless Network Quality Performance Study, Volume 2.” Applause is also due to Sprint. The study divides the U.S. into six sections, and while Sprint ranked last in each of these in the first volume of the study, in this second volume, […]

The Apple iPhone 5’s physique and features have been thoroughly speculated about, but it’s the device’s chipset that could create a major change for the California device maker. The iPhone’s incompatibility with Time Division Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access (TD-SCDMA), a popular wireless standard unique to China, is for now preventing Apple from attaining greater […]