Michelle Maisto

Mobile app developers whose workloads include creating both iOS and Android apps say Apple€™s iOS is their preferred platform, Piper Jaffray analysts Gene Munster and Douglas J. Clinton said in a June 18 research note. Two categories in particular€”ease of development and future revenue growth€”influenced their thinking the most. Apple and Google each recently wooed […]

Later this year, possibly in October, Microsoft will release its Windows 8 operating system, which will work on both x86 hardware, as well as with ARM chips, allowing the company to enter the tablet market where the iPad dominates. However, the software giant has now scheduled a June 18 event in Los Angeles that is […]

Does Apple have its eye on cameras? The iPhone 5 will find itself competing against the thin-and-light, sensor-laden Samsung Galaxy S III, the slightly smaller, audio-enhanced HTC One X and, by the time of its expected October release, who knows what else. For the Apple faithful, the name will be enough to guarantee an upgrade. […]

Apple MacBook Air On June 11, Apple introduced a faster, more robust MacBook Air. The 11 inch-model, with its 11.6-inch high-resolution LED-backlit display, starts at $999, while 13-inch models, with their 13.3-inch displays, start at $1,199. Apple MacBook Air While new MacBook Pros were slimmed down, Apple decided the Airs were skinny enough as-is. It […]

Surely a T-Mobile iPhone can’t be far off. The nation’s fourth-largest carrier€”flush with cash and spectrum, following AT&T’s failed effort to acquire it in 2011€”announced June 14 that its $4 billion Long-Term Evolution (LTE) rollout efforts are going swimmingly. On May 8 it shared that it had signed equipment deals with Ericsson and Nokia Siemens […]

Television maker Vizio rolled its eyes at the PC industry and announced June 15 that it had started shipping Thin + Light Notebooks and an all-in-one PC that will “break through the clutter” and prove once and for all that “power, design and entertainment can flawlessly coexist in a PC.” In other words, Vizio created […]

Verizon Wireless’ Share Everything plans will not become an official offer until June 28, but some consumers are already upset€”just as Verizon expected. “We knew the unlimited news would be perceived negatively, so we weren’t surprised,” Steve Mesnick, Verizon’s head of marketing, told Computerworld, according to a June 14 article. Mesnick added, “We’re allowing the […]

Apple, Google and Microsoft are expected to be the dominant providers of mapping services€”for indoor spaces. A July 14 report from IMS Research expects that the mobile giants, already tussling over city views, will next set their sights on indoor spaces like airports and shopping malls. By 2016, IMS expects nearly 120,000 indoor venue maps […]

Nokia will cut 10,000 jobs, or 19 percent of its workforce, by the end of 2013, as part of efforts to improve its operating model and return the company to growth, the phone maker€™s executives told investors June 14. The plan calls for the closing of a manufacturing facility in Salo, Finland€”Nokia€™s largest in its […]

Sony is the latest beleaguered phone maker to try and wrestle some market share away from Apple and Samsung. AT&T will begin selling the Sony Xperia ion, an Android smartphone equipped with Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology, June 24 for $99.99€”a price that puts the Sony squarely on Nokia turf. Nokia, also fighting to regain market […]

Repair site iFixit performed a teardown on the new 13-inch MacBook Air that Apple introduced during its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote June 11. What the site€™s engineers found was not terribly surprising: The MacBook Air is no cinch to open or upgrade. iFixit gave it a 4 out of 10, 10 being the easiest […]

Apple€™s newest 15-inch MacBook Pros appear to be already selling out. During its June 11 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) keynote, Apple executives were expected to offer an answer to the Ultrabook craze, and they didn€™t disappoint. After impressive updates to the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, which alone may well have sated the Apple fan […]