Michelle Maisto

The Apple iPhone was the only smartphone to receive a five Power Circle Rating from J.D. Power and Associates, following the release of two new reports, its 2012 “U.S. Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study” and “U.S. Wireless Traditional Mobile Phone Satisfaction Study.” Both reports measured satisfaction with devices used for less than a year. In […]

Verizon Wireless has good news for anyone planning on picking up the new 4G-enabled Apple iPad March 17. As of March 15, it’s rolled out more than 200 Long-Term Evolution (LTE) markets, and is on track to double those efforts, and exceed 400 markets and 260 million people by the year’s end. Dothan and Enterprise, […]

The new Apple iPad goes on sale March 17, and the early reviews are in. People like it. It’s really nice. Apple made some great updates to the iPad 2. The screen is impressively sharper, and where there’s Long-Term Evolution (LTE) access, it’s really much faster. Still, no one was super, Apple-style blown away. No […]

Following the launch of a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) study, Good Technology has announced a new application enabling enterprises to support a tablet that’s likely already made its transition from gift boxes beneath Christmas trees to offices around the country: the Amazon Kindle Fire. Amazon, shy about sharing exact figures, is estimated to have sold about 4.5 […]

T-Mobile CTO Neville Ray, sharing news of T-Mobile’s plans for rolling out Long-Term Evolution- (LTE-) based 4G, included a detail likely to be of far more interest to subscribers than the difference between HSPA+ 42 technology and HSPA +84. Once all the puzzle pieces of its new plan are in place, Ray said, the T-Mobile […]

Verizon Wireless, upon entering a deal with cable companies Cox Wireless and SpectrumCo€”a conglomerate of Time Warner, Comcast and Bright House Networks€”has found itself in shoes very much like those that AT&T wore for nine months or so last year, as it worked to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to let it buy smaller rival […]

Apple’s newest iPad already has CIOs and IT professionals planning accordingly. In a recent ChangeWave Research survey, more than one in five business IT buyers said they now plan to buy the new iPad, which goes on sale March 16, during the second quarter of 2012. That 22 percent, according to ChangeWave, represents the highest […]

The Federal Communications Commission has asked Verizon Wireless, Cox Communications and the entities of SpectrumCo€”Comcast, Time Warner and Bright House Networks€”to share some information that it left out of a nearly 300-page March 2 correspondence submitted to FCC, deeming the details too top-secret. In order to fully consider the $3.9 billion agreement that Verizon hopes […]

Apple has won over once-tentative enterprises, in recent years, and the new iPad is no exception. However, its arrival may bring as many challenges as benefits, especially for the IT professionals with the task to support it within their networks. “The screen is certainly a great asset of the new iPad, and considering how many […]

Apple’s newest iPad, described as once again “leapfrogging the competition” and “resetting the bar” on performance is expected to help it take back tablet market share lost last year to Android devices, IHS iSuppli forecast March 7. The research firm added that Apple’s tablet introductions for 2012 also aren’t over yet, with a rumored 7-inch […]

Apple’s notorious desire for control is getting it into trouble again, this time for allegedly colluding to raise the prices of e-books. Prosecutors are also accusing several large publishing houses of being part of the scheme. Suspecting such collusion, the U.S. Justice Department has warned Apple and five of the largest U.S. book publishers €” […]

Samsung phones were used by more Americans than any other mobile brand during the three months ending in January, comScore reported March 6. The firm added that while 234 million Americans used mobile devices, 101.3 million are now pocketing smartphones€”a figure that jumped 13 percent from the three months ending in October 2011. comScore’s findings […]