Michelle Maisto

AT&T was in serious talks to purchase Leap Wireless, a carrier with a prepaid base and a network that runs on incompatible technology, Reuters reported May 10, highlighting the challenge that players in this mature market face when it comes to growth. Bulking up seems to require some combination of an acquisition, a Long-Term Evolution […]

T-Mobile and MetroPCS, the nation’s fourth- and fifth-largest carriers, respectively, are discussing a merger, Bloomberg reported May 10, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal could entail an outright sale of T-Mobile or a stock swap that would give T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom control over the combined carriers. The news follows T-Mobile’s May […]

Federal Communications Chairman Julius Genachowski, after putting up his dukes with CTIA President Steve Largent at the CTIA Wireless 2012 show in New Orleans May 8, embraced a different opportunity to detail all that the FCC has accomplished of late and what it has planned. On May 9, he presented the FCC’s 2013 budget to […]

High-Flying Notebooks With its new line of Envy Sleekbooks and Ultrabooks, HP hopes to appeal to both consumers and business users wanting thin, light, speedy and, of course, attractive notebooks with plenty of features for nonworking hours. Apple Envy? Available in 14- and 15.6-inch options, this HP Envy Sleekbook in silver bears a resemblance to […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion on May 9, a week after its BlackBerry World 2012 show in Orlando, Fla., introduced a new smartphone for sociable consumers, the BlackBerry Curve 9320. It’s understandable that RIM should show off the phone now€”the CTIA Wireless 2012 event in New Orleans this week has the world focused on smartphones, […]

A limited edition of the Samsung Galaxy S III super-phone will be paired with some super humans this summer. Samsung- and Visa-sponsored athletes and trialists participating in the London 2012 Olympic Games will each receive their own special edition of the smartphone, enabled with Visa’s new payWave mobile payment application, the two companies announced May […]

At its Shanghai Expo Center event May 9, Hewlett-Packard introduced a number of colorful, powerful, music- and design-centric PCs for consumers. However, HP is also keeping business customers in mind with a range of enterprise PCs and other hardware designed for a mix of vertical markets. All these offerings are an attempt to balance an […]

Lenovo ThinkCentre 92z All-in-One The 2.5-inch-thin ThinkCentre 92z has a 21.5-inch high-definition In-Plane Switching (IPS) LED display that’s covered with Infinity Glass. Processor options include up to a third-generation (Ivy Bridge) Intel Core i7 chip. Lenovo ThinkCentre 92z All-in-One The 92z is also available with an optional 10-point multi-touch display. The AIO can connect to […]

Hewlett-Packard has been busy. At an event at the Shanghai Expo Center in China May 9, the company, which was once on the verge of doing away with its PC unit, introduced more new business and consumer-geared PC models than any single person could reasonably keep track of. Most likely to stand out from the […]

T-Mobile subscribers should expect to experience increased speeds as early as this year, as the carrier’s planned $4 billion Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network rollout gets under way. America’s fourth-largest carrier announced May 7 that it has signed multi-year agreements with Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks, which will provide and install Release 10-capable equipment at 37,000 […]

Lenovo, the world’s second-largest PC company€”though according to enthusiastic Lenovo staff, much of the world thinks it’s a pharmaceutical company, if they think of it at all€”is planning to roll out new ThinkCentre and Edge Series PCs later this year that take advantage of Intel’s recently released Ivy Bridge processors. Small-business owners and IT managers, […]

At the CTIA Wireless show in New Orleans May 8, Nokia detailed a number of new mobile application partnerships designed to get more of the company€™s Lumia smartphones into consumers’ hands. The agreement also benefits Microsoft and its Windows Phone platform. With the Windows Phone Marketplace now at 80,000 apps strong, Nokia€”which is struggling to […]