Michelle Maisto

In the last week, Acer has introduced two new lines of Ultrabooks to the U.S. market. The S5 and S3 feature 13.3-inch widescreen LED-backlit displays and are being touted, respectively, as the world€™s thinnest Ultrabook and one of its most affordable. Also making a U.S. debut later this month are three M5 Ultrabooks, all of […]

Microsoft€™s introduction of its new Surface tablet included just enough information to stir up excitement and more than enough question marks to start the industry guessing€”and poking around. Bloomberg, in this vein, reported June 22 that Microsoft will initially begin selling the Surface without a cellular connection, relying only on WiFi. The Apple iPad, the […]

Samsung no doubt thinks its Galaxy S III smartphone is red hot and ready to smoke the competition, but a user in Dublin has experienced something else entirely. His Galaxy S III, he wrote on a chat board June 20, exploded while docked in his car. €œI was driving along €¦ when suddenly a white […]

Apple€™s new MacBook Pro with Retina display may have grabbed the spotlight, following its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) debut, but it€™s the updated, regular ol€™ MacBook Pro that deserves some attention, repair site iFixit has announced, following a teardown of the latter. While the MacBook Pro with Retina display (referred to as the MacBook Pro […]

Samsung and Sony are doing their parts to push Near Field Communication (NFC) technology beyond mobile payments. The two are among the handful of phone makers including NFC in their devices, but have also introduced ways that mainstream consumers can make NFC work for them€”not just by passively tapping posters and such out in the […]

HTC Evo 4G LTE Sprint theoretically began selling the HTC Evo 4G LTE May 18 for $199.99 with a two-year contract. With AT&T’s HTC One X (shown here), the Evo was held up in customs for a few weeks, while HTC and Apple debated whether the phones infringed Apple patents. The phones are definitely siblings. […]

Fujitsu is following up its Lifebook Ultrabook introduction with a trio of commercial notebooks, also running third-generation Intel Core i5 or i7 processors. Ranging from full-size to subcompact, these laptops are meant for a variety of business users, from those behind reception desks to mobile workers in offices and those who frequently jetset. All three […]

Samsung Galaxy S III The Samsung Galaxy S III arrives in a rather involved box, whether it’s a Pebble Blue version from T-Mobile or a Marble White from AT&T. AT&T, T-Mobile Out of the box, the touch of each carrier is lightly apparent. AT&T uses the protective sticker to further a safe driving campaign, while […]

The Samsung Galaxy S III is a lot of phone. In every regard. The smartphone feels extra big, extra slippery. It does a lot of buzzing in the hand. It’s jam-packed with features. So many features€”and tips and shortcuts and options€”that Samsung doesn’t trust or expect a user to intuitively discover or figure them out, […]

The PC market should expect no miracles this year, research firm IDC shared in a June 19 report. Pointing to global economic uncertainty and increasing competition from alternate devices such as tablets, the research firm is expecting only modest growth. Shipments by year€™s end are forecast to near 383 million units. While PC shipments during […]

Sprint€™s HTC Evo 4G LTE shared headlines with AT&T€™s HTC One X in May when the two smartphones found themselves in a U.S. Customs limbo, while Apple and HTC argued over patents. Still, the white, wafer-like One X has much more in common with the Evo 4G LTE, a phone with a chunky, black and […]

Samsung is taking steps toward infiltrating enterprises with the introduction of its Samsung Approved for Enterprise, or SAFE, devices in the United States. Its Galaxy S III smartphone, which by the end of July will be available from Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular, will join the Samsung Galaxy Note and other devices […]