Michelle Maisto

Mobile phone maker Kyocera is trying to make the most of the fact that, if the rumors prove true—and there’s growing evidence they will—it will soon have something in common with Apple: sapphire glass. Or maybe that’s not quite right. Maybe the brag is more exactly that Kyocera has been making sapphire glass forever, and […]

The European Commission (EC) has chastised Apple for failing to make changes to help prevent children from making inadvertent purchases within mobile apps or parents from receiving unexpected bills. The EC announced July 18 that it has joined forces with national authorities to address the issue, and their actions are delivering “tangible results”—just not from […]

With Samsung Galaxy Tab S, No Buyer’s Remorse by Michelle Maisto Samsung Galaxy Tab S Tablet The Galaxy Tab S, a flagship device for Samsung, is now available with WiFi-only connectivity. An LTE-enabled model will arrive later this summer. The Tab S is offered with an 8.4-inch or 10.5-inch Super AMOLED display, and in Titanium […]

Bill Campbell, Apple’s longest-serving board member, hand-picked for the task by Steve Jobs 17 years ago, is retiring, Apple announced July 17. Susan Wagner, a founding partner and director of asset-management firm BlackRock, has been elected to the board. Apple CEO Tim Cook called Campbell’s contributions to Apple “immeasurable,” and in a statement thanked him […]

Tablets, like smartphones, seem to be near the end of their innovation cycle. They’re thin, they’re light, their displays have more pixels than the eye can appreciate. What more can be done? Samsung continues to answer this question by differentiating—on size, on price, on materials, on features—if even only subtly. With the Galaxy Tab S, […]

Apple has agreed to pay consumers $400 million, as part of a government lawsuit that claimed Apple conspired with the nation’s largest book publishers to fix the prices of ebooks—but only if its appeal of a New York federal judge’s ruling from last year is unsuccessful. According to a July 16 court filing, if the […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a television interview with CNBC about Apple’s newest partnership with IBM, said, “It’s profound. It’s historic. It’s landmark.” Announced July 15, the deal involves the pair creating more than 100 industry-specific enterprise applications; IBM getting to put the big-data know-how and enterprise-class solutions that it’s known for on some of […]

Today marks the closure of an added 60-day window during which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been collecting public comments on the so-called “net neutrality” rules. In January, a U.S. District Court dismissed the FCC’s ability to enforce net neutrality—an FCC guiding principle that all traffic on the Internet should be treated equally. Since […]

Samsung has temporarily suspended business with Dongguan Shinyang Electronics, a supplier factory that China Labor Watch (CLW) accused July 9 of hiring children to make Samsung devices. “It is unfortunate that the allegation surfaced despite Samsung’s efforts to prevent child labor at its suppliers,” the Galaxy device maker wrote in a July 14 blog post. […]

Samsung’s Android-running Galaxy devices have helped make it the world’s top-selling smartphone maker. But in what could easily be interpreted as its latest move to put space between itself and Android-maker Google, Samsung has introduced Galaxy Apps, an online app store that Galaxy device users can turn to instead of Google Play. Samsung introduced the […]

Apple has responded to allegations that a Frequent Locations feature on the iPhone could pose a security threat, as Chinese broadcaster CCTV told viewers in a program last week. “We are strongly committed to giving our customers clear and transparent notice, choice and control over their information, and we believe our products do this in […]

The rumor that Apple’s iPhone 6 smartphones will feature sapphire glass displays is seeming more likely. Marques Brownlee, an eloquent, young YouTube blogger (“vlogger”) who reports from what seems to be his bedroom, recently posted a video of himself holding what he said is the front glass of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 “straight off the […]