Michelle Maisto

A “Nokia Army” is infiltrating AT&T retail stores in order to pump up the carrier’s flabby sales efforts, when it comes to moving Lumia smartphones. Hundreds of members of Nokia’s U.S. staff are volunteering to work alongside AT&T sales staff, in order to educate both them and their customers on the features and benefits of […]

The smartphone ideal€”high speeds! everywhere availability!€”and smartphone reality are still separate things, says a new report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Despite the proliferation of devices sporting quad-core processors and networks running 3G, HSPA+ and 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology, Americans still find themselves waiting on their phones. And while […]

Samsung plans to introduce its next Galaxy Note tablet at a Samsung Mobile Unpacked event in Berlin Aug. 29, a spokesperson for the company told Reuters. The unveiling will come two days before the IFA Consumer Electronics Unlimited show kicks off in the same city. The South Korean media has speculated that the next Note […]

Research In Motion will release its first BlackBerry 10 smartphones in January, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins told The Telegraph, according to an interview published Aug. 2. Until now, the long-awaited platform and world-class new smartphones have been relegated to a vaguer future in “the first quarter of calendar 2013,” as Heins first told analysts during […]

Google€™s relationship with American Express is a bit more nuanced than the search company suggested in an Aug. 1 blog post. While Google shared that its Wallet app now €œsupports all credit and debit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover,€ American Express says it€™s never actually signed on the dotted line. All Things […]

Record Apple iPad sales contributed to an overall strong second quarter for the tablet market, IDC said in an Aug. 2 statement, reporting preliminary results. While firm totals will arrive later in August, IDC estimated that 25 million tablets shipped during the quarter, up from 18.7 million during the first quarter and 15 million a […]

The smartphone market, and Google in particular, couldn€™t have asked for a bigger, better gift than China. With its 199 percent year-over-year smartphone growth, the country helped drive overall shipments to 158.3 million units during the second quarter, up from nearly 108 million a year ago. The overall market, meanwhile, increased by nearly 50 percent. […]

Google€™s Wallet app now supports all credit and debit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover, the Android-maker announced Aug. 1, offering what€™s likely to be a boost to the slow-moving mobile payments market. Google rolled out Wallet in the fall of 2011 with support from Citi MasterCard and Google Prepaid cards, which could […]

Research In Motion has introduced a 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) version of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, marking a bright spot in what have been bleak days for the BlackBerry maker. While the tablet will begin shipping from Canadian carriers Bell, Rogers and Telus Aug. 9, it will head down to the United States, and elsewhere, […]

Something for Everyone The App Store launched on July 10, 2008 with 500 applications. As of June 2012, the store offers more than 650,000 applications. Of those, approximately 236,000 are for the iPad and a whopping 567,000 are for the iPhone. Top Downloaders The App Store is available in nearly 200 countries. The top 10 […]

Apple’s App Store has long been winning the app numbers contest€”and, no doubt, it is a contest. At Apple’s 2012 Worldwide Developers Conference in June, one of the first things CEO Tim Cook told the audience, upon taking the stage, is that there are now more than 650,000 apps in Apple’s store€”which also has “the […]

Microsoft has been busy reimagining personal email, the software giant announced July 31, sharing a preview of Outlook.com. The site, arriving 16 years after Webmail was first introduced with Hotmail, and eight years after Google introduced Gmail, is said to be a “modern” take on email, designed for “the next billion mailboxes.” “Email is becoming […]