Michelle Maisto

The iPhone 5 will run a quad-core processor, Apple’s A6€”according to the latest rumors. As always, despite rumors, Apple is keeping quiet about its upcoming smartphone. Apple followed the release of its A5 chip with an A5X in its third-generation iPad, so an upcoming A6 isn’t unthinkable. Apple could very well continue on with the […]

Tablet teardowns are losing their spark with repair site iFixit’s teardown team. But with Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet, the team found their love renewed, thanks to several smart design decisions on Google’s part. While iFixit found plenty to be enamored of, it was the tablet’s giant battery that made them want to get physical. […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has a message to deliver. RIM has delayed the release of BlackBerry 10, its save-the-company product; is poised to let go of 5,000 employees, reducing its staff by nearly a third; has hired advisers who may suggest the company split into two, if not sell off an important component of […]

Samsung launched a new Galaxy smartphone in Seoul July 4, the Samsung Galaxy Chat. Featuring a 3-inch QVGA touch-screen and a dedicated QWERTY keyboard, it looks a whole lot like something that BlackBerry users might be interested in. Like the Galaxy S III, the Chat will launch abroad€”starting in Spain this month and expanding throughout […]

Google Nexus 7 Google calls the Nexus 7 a “no-compromise Android tablet,” and has given it a price that should have competitors shaking: An 8GB model is $199, and a 16GB model $249. The entertainment-geared Nexus 7 “was built for Google Play,” and to prove it, for a limited time, Google is offering buyers a […]

Seemingly swayed by the success and appeal of Android smartphones, Apple is rumored to be planning an iPhone that features a larger display than its previous five models. Likewise, as Android supporters focus on the 7-inch tablet form factor, Apple is said to be planning a smaller version of its nearly 10-inch tablet, which has […]

Research In Motion CEO Thorsten Heins defended his company and its future on the CBC Metro Morning radio program July 3, saying it is neither in a “death spiral” nor “at death’s door,” as host Matt Galloway suggested. Heins told the host that RIM remains in the middle of a transition and that he feels […]

AT&T says the wait for its Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone is over. Subscribers and new customers will be able to buy the phone in stores and online starting Friday, July 6. While AT&T announced June 4 that, like four other U.S. carriers, it would be offering the phone, it didn’t name a sales date […]

Nokia, losing sales to Android-running smartphones and the Apple iPhone, has said it plans to be smarter about taking advantage of its considerable patent portfolio. Most recently, it noted that Google and Asus, with Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet, appear to be taking a free ride on its patent coattails. Hardly making a move to […]

Shipments of tablets such as the Apple iPad are on track to surpass shipments of laptops by 2016, NPD reported July 3. By 2017, the firm expects PC shipments to have grown from 347 million units in 2012 to 809 million units, laptop shipments to have increased from 208 million to 293 million units, and […]

Apple has agreed to pay Shenzhen Proview Technology $60 million to use the iPad name in China, the Associated Press reported July 2. The matter appears to settle an ongoing lawsuit between the two companies about which one really owns the name €œiPad.€ Apple has maintained that it purchased the global rights to the iPad […]

Apple’s iCloud has officially succeeded its MobileMe service, marking a cloud milestone. The iPhone maker announced June 6, 2011, with the introduction of iCloud, that June 30, 2012, would be MobileMe’s last day. While Apple has been sending out messages, reminding MobileMe users who had yet to take action that the end was nigh, procrastinators […]