Michelle Maisto

Verizon Wireless and Time Warner Cable announced April 12 that customers in parts of Ohio, Kansas and North Carolina can now sign up for bundled offerings, including Time Warner Cable video, Internet and voice services and Verizon smartphones and tablets. The announcement between the two companies comes as federal regulators are still looking into whether […]

Google€™s first-quarter 2012 earnings call was notable for both what executives shared and didn€™t say. In addition to announcing a two-for-one stock split, $10.7 billion in revenue for the quarter and a cash pile totaling nearly $50 billion, there was much talk of the value of clicks and developments in search. With 850,000 Android devices […]

The PC market exceeded analysts€™ expectations (albeit very modest ones) during the first quarter, rising by 1.9 percent or 2.3 percent, whether you go by figures from Gartner or IDC, respectively. The two firms released their dueling preliminary first-quarter estimates April 11, telling a story that€™s still very wait-and-see. Hewlett-Packard topped both charts, in global […]

Reporting that it’s enjoying “tremendous momentum” from products including the Apple-fighting Android operating system, the Chrome browser and the YouTube video site, Google announced April 12 that revenue was up 24 percent year on year, to $10.65 billion. It additionally announced a 2-for-1 stock split that will give a new class of non-voting capital stock […]

Foxconn recently hosted Marketplace€™s China correspondent Rob Schmitz inside its factories where Apple iPads are assembled. The visit made Schmitz only the second reporter to ever stand on the factory floor of Apple€™s most notorious contract partner. What he found was a lot of hard work, and workers who are young, far from their families […]

AT&T subscribers can purchase the LTE-savvy Nokia Lumia 900 for $99 with a new two-year contract, though the device costs Nokia $217 a pop to make, IHS iSuppli reported April 11, following a physical teardown of the smartphone. Sans manufacturing, the bill of materials totaled $209. Without a contract, the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) smartphone sells […]

With Apple at the forefront, the electronics industry is having its “Nike moment,” research firm IHS iSuppli said in an April 10 report. Alluding to the 1990s public relations disaster that followed spreading knowledge of sweatshop manufacturing in the clothing industry and led to the creation of the Fair Labor Association (FLA), Apple and the […]

The U.S. Department of Justice€™s Antitrust Division, true to its word, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five of the country€™s largest publishers, accusing them of conspiring to limit competition on the pricing of ebooks. Apple and the publishers, The Wall Street Journal reported April 11, agreed on a pricing model that essentially […]

Intel has targeted the elementary education market with the introduction of the Intel studybook, a plastic tablet with shock-absorber-surrounded 7-inch display, a sturdy design that anticipates falls and on-board educational software. Part of the Intel Learning Series, which includes Ultrabooks and notebooks, the studybook runs an Intel Atom processor Z650 and can be made to […]

Nokia gave investors a warning April 11, announcing in advance of its fiscal 2012 first quarter that its performance wasn€™t quite what it hoped it would be. During the quarter, Nokia sold more than 2 million Lumia smartphones, at an average price of 200 euros, or about $260 U.S. dollars, and saw €œsequential growth in […]

Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile have all agreed to register phones that have been reported stolen into a nationwide database. It€™s hoped that the database program, established in cooperation with the Federal Communications Commission; CTIA, The Wireless Association; and the Major Cities Chiefs Association, an affiliation of 70 police chiefs from around the United […]

Toshiba has followed its March introduction of the world€™s thinnest tablet, the Excite 10 LE, with an introduction to possibly the world€™s largest consumer tablet, the Excite 13. Featuring a 13.3-inch scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass display, it€™s the Papa Bear in a new trio of Excite tablets, all running Google€™s Android 4, known as Ice […]