Michelle Maisto

AT&T iPhone owners now have a little more flexibility. Several sources have confirmed that Apple is now willingly unlocking iPhones that are past their two-year contract window. Previously, the only hope for using an AT&T iPhone on another network was to jailbreak the smartphone, which voided its warranty. The Next Web confirmed the new policy […]

The way Facebook and Instagram tell it, it€™s unclear who did the proposing and who said €œI do.€ What is clear is that the social-networking site is purchasing the photo-sharing app for $1 billion. €œWe couldn€™t be happier to announce that Instagram has agreed to be acquired by Facebook,€ Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom wrote in […]

BlackBerry smartphones are still the U.S. government€™s phone of choice. In fact, Research In Motion€™s share of that market, with its high demands for security and always-on push email, €œis probably increasing,€ Bloomberg reported April 9, citing an interview with Scott Totzke, the company€™s senior vice president of BlackBerry security. €œCompared to the enterprise over […]

The new Apple iPad is a success, suggest two new industry reports on adoption and satisfaction. Less than a month since its arrival, the new iPad already accounts for 10 percent of all iPad traffic, according to Chitika Insights. Its iPad Tracker, a metric for tracking adoption rates of the new iPad in real time, […]

AT&T will begin selling the Nokia Lumia 900 this Sunday, April 8, for $100 with a new two-year contract. Equipped to zip along on AT&T’s growing 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network, the smartphone features a 4.3-inch display, runs Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5, known as Mango, can access a growing Marketplace portfolio of popular apps and […]

BlackBerry Bold 9790 The Bold 9790 pairs a QWERTY keyboard with a 2.45-inch touch-screen. There’s 8GB of on-board memory; a microSD slot supporting 40GB more; a 5-megapixel camera with high-definition video recording; 3G, WiFi and GPS; and 6.3 hours of talk time on GSM and 7.4 hours of video playback time. At 115mm by 66mm […]

HTC, following the April 2011 introduction of the Droid Incredible, was hailed as a newly elite brand in the U.S. smartphone market. Boasting quarter-to-quarter growth of 30 percent, one analyst celebrated it as having gone €œfrom the edge to the cutting edge.€ Almost exactly a year later, on the heels of its HTC Evo 4G […]

Google CEO Larry Page posted a €œ2012 Update€ on the company€™s Investor Relations page, talking up the decisions he€™s made over the last year, what Google is and isn€™t doing, and the excitement that he says underscores the work Googlers do. Google, he suggested, is a big company with the soul of a startup. €œSince […]

The Nokia Lumia 900, the first real test of the Microsoft-Nokia relationship, goes on sale this weekend. Nokia has spared no expense on the hardware, Microsoft has labored over its Windows Phone Mango update, and AT&T is contributing super-fast 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) speeds. That leaves just one last area for scrutiny by consumers considering […]

Apple iPads are the tablets of choice for 70 percent of tablet-owning teenagers, according to an April 4 report from Piper Jaffray. Teen preference, combined with teen iPhone ownership, the results of school surveys and the growing trend of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies€”even within schools€”all result in a forecast that finds the education market is going […]

How can Nokia and Microsoft score the home run they need with the Nokia Lumia 900, the pair€™s first flagship smartphone, which AT&T will begin selling April 8? Convert over all current Symbian users and lure away BlackBerry users from Research In Motion€™s sinking ship, says Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps in an April 5 […]

Book sellers and writers rejoice! E-readers and tablets have readers reading far more€”not to mention feeling excited to say so€”according to an April 4 report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Holiday sales of these devices caused their market shares to nearly […]