Michelle Maisto

The Apple iPad 3€”no matter how blazingly fast its processor or crisp its display€”won’t have Amazon fearing for sales of the Kindle Fire, its $199 tablet that helped to nearly double the number of American tablet users during the December holiday season. It’s Apple’s existing iPads, and what it does to their prices, Bloomberg reported […]

Apple’s legal team enjoyed a small victory March 5, when a federal judge in Chicago ruled that Google and Motorola Mobility must hand over to Apple information relevant to development of Google’s Android operating system, according to a report from Bloomberg. The ruling came as part of an ongoing 2010 lawsuit filed by Apple against […]

Verizon Wireless filed a fists-swinging 299-page document with the Federal Communications Commission March 2, describing its spectrum-purchasing deals with SpectrumCo and Cox TMI Wireless as foremost “squarely in line with Administration and Commission policy,” in the best interests of the public, and presenting “no countervailing harms.” The document has already prompted critics of the deal […]

Pure IP infrastructures can offer enterprises a 43 percent annual savings, compared with traditional PBX systems, according to a March 5 study released by Siemens Enterprise Communications. The savings was one of three key points to come from the study, which surveyed more than 1,000 IT decision makers around the globe about their communications decisions […]

China continues to keep Apple on its toes. Most recently, China Mobile announced that it supports more than 15 million iPhone users. It’s not a stupendous number, given that the state-owned operator, the largest in the world, has 655 million subscribers. But neither is it too shabby, considering China Mobile doesn’t sell the iPhone or […]

AT&T has relented a bit on its throttling policies and shared new information about what has been an opaque area. In July 2011, the carrier had told smartphone customers who had unlimited plans that€”in a step to “manage exploding demand for mobile data”€”anyone whose data use during a billing period put them in the “top […]

AT&T will begin selling the Sony Tablet P March 4, for $400 with a new two-year contract, the carrier announced Feb. 28. In a tablet market rich with Apple iPad impersonators, the 4G-enabled Tablet P bears a stronger resemblance to Sony’s Nintendo DS console, with two screens that fold up clamshell-style. Its two 5.5-inch touch-screens […]

Smartphone ownership continues to rise, especially among younger consumers and business users, says a March 1 report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The fastest-growing group of smartphone addicts was 18- to 24-year-olds, though it’s 25- to 34-year-olds who continue to own the lion’s share. However, Americans who are over the age of […]

The Apple iPad 3, according to the latest rumors, will come in two versions, 16GB or 32GB, according to DigiTimes, which points to information from upstream supply chain sources. Less expected, the report adds that Apple€š during its scheduled March 7 event, will also introduce an 8GB version of the iPad 2, to help it […]

LightSquared CEO and executive vice president Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned, the company announced Feb. 28. The news follows a number of recent setbacks for the company, which is funded by billionaire Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners hedge fund, and hopes to launch a 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) wireless broadband network that can compete with the […]

The Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook€”a lithe and lovely laptop that Dell hopes will bring about a rebirth of its brand image within the consumer space, and very well may do exactly that€”is now available. The XPS 13 weighs less than 3 pounds, is less than a quarter of an inch at its thickest point and […]

AT&T knows all too well that Apple iPhones, Long-Term Evolution (LTE) network rollouts and high-speed mobile broadband support don’t come cheap. Faced with all three, the carrier is considering new ways to unload its cost burdens, including letting mobile service providers pay for the cost of the data traffic associated with some particularly burdensome applications […]