Michelle Maisto

Lenovo celebrated the 20th anniversary of its ThinkPad line by introducing the ThinkPad Tablet 2, a 10.1-inch tablet that’s Lenovo’s answer to the Microsoft Surface, if not also the Apple iPad, and announcing the creation of a developer program for applications specialized for Lenovo devices. The Tablet 2 will ship in October, following the introduction […]

Samsung has sold more than 10 million Galaxy S III smartphones, and soon those devices will be able to support voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) technology, the company announced Aug. 9. The technology will be available in Korea in August and later in other LTE markets around the world at a less-specific date. VoLTE uses […]

The Museum of Modern Art Lenovo chose New York City’s Museum of Modern Art as the site of its ThinkPad celebration. The first three ThinkPads—the 700, 700C and 700T—debuted in October 1992. IBM made the first ThinkPads, and Lenovo bought IBM’s PC unit in 2005. Butterfly Keyboard The ThinkPad 701c featured a distinctive “butterfly keyboard.” […]

Samsung, as Apple did before it, is experiencing what it means to be the device maker on which the world is focused. New York-based China Labor Watch, the company that shined a spotlight on Apple assembly partner Foxconn Technology, is now looking at the working conditions at Huizhou, China-based HEG Electronics, which makes phones and […]

Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android confirmed their dominance as leaders of the smartphone market, research firm IDC reported Aug. 8. If the pair’s prowess actually still required confirmation, IDC’s second-quarter numbers offered it: Together, the platforms powered 85 percent of all the smartphones that shipped during the quarter. “Android continues to fire on all cylinders,” […]

Sprint reduced the price of its iPhones by $50 on Aug. 6, a move that has encouraged rumors that Apple’s next smartphone€”the so called iPhone 5€”is on its way. Its 16GB iPhone 4S is now available for $150, its 32GB for $250 and its 64GB for $350. Sprint is now also advertising that, for subscribers […]

Questions about whether smartphones and the radio-frequency energy they emit can cause health problems in users were the impetus for an investigation by the Government Accountability Office. What it found was that the Federal Communications Commission’s current RF guidance doesn’t reflect the latest research and that testing requirements may not identify the possible maximum exposure […]

Research In Motion is counting on its delayed BlackBerry 10 platform to reinvigorate its brand, increase smartphone sales and, in short, save the once-industry-leading company. Analysts with investment firm Jefferies, however, are now saying they don’t expect BlackBerry 10 will live up to RIM’s expectations. After trying out RIM’s Dev Alpha€”a mock smartphone RIM provided […]

So great is Apple and Samsung€™s dominance over the rest of the smartphone market that the pair together captured 108 percent of the handset industry€™s profits during the second quarter, Canaccord Genuity analysts reported Aug. 5. The striking figure was made possible, the analysts explained, by competitors such as BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, Nokia, […]

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced the Cell Phone Right to Know Act Aug. 6. The bill requests that a national research program be established to study cell phones and their potential effects on users’ health, that data on Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)€”the amount of radio-frequency energy that’s absorbed by the body while using a cell […]

Lenovo has its eyes on Dell’s portion of the education and government markets, Bloomberg reported Aug. 6, following an interview with Lenovo Vice President and General Manager Thomas Looney. While Dell has tried to make more inroads into the consumer market, the Texas-based PC maker still makes most of its money in the enterprise and […]

Samsung announced Aug. 6 that the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet it introduced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, is now available in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Korea, and will gradually roll out to other markets later this month. Checks early in the day, however, have found it to be still […]