Michelle Maisto

Sprint LTE ally LightSquared and satellite company Inmarsat are publically airing a dispute, the latest trouble that the hopeful 4G network has come into. Inmarsat announced in a Feb. 20 press release that LightSquared has failed to make a $56.25 million payment, due upon completion of a “Phase 1 transition.” Consequently, Inmarsat has issued a […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook offered new ways of considering the success of Apple products during a presentation at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco Feb. 14. Since the April 2010 introduction of the iPad, Apple has sold 55 million of the tablets, Cook shared. Put in context, it took Apple three […]

Hewlett-Packard’s introduction this week of the Z1, a tower-less, 27-inch display workstation unlike any other in the world, came with a clear message. Lest anyone miss it, HP held an event in Las Vegas this week, alongside its worldwide partner conference, to shine a light on it. Endpoint Technologies analyst Roger Kay, writing for Forbes, […]

Tablet sales in 2011 exceeded analyst estimates, but the Apple iPad still took a hit during the fourth quarter, usually a strong sales period due to holiday shopping. The culprit? It wasn’t the Samsung Galaxy Tab or even the Amazon Kindle Fire that took the biggest bite out of iPad sales. It was Apple’s iPhone […]

The Hewlett-Packard brand isn’t generally synonymous with game-changing. Reliable and solid, sure. But creative professionals looking for the fireworks-bringing devices may be more likely to look toward Apple. However, with its newest all-in-one workstation, introduced Feb. 14, HP has, as it’s quick to point out, created a world first: an all-in-one workstation with a 27-inch […]

Apple became the third largest mobile phone vendor in the world during the fourth quarter of 2011, as well as the top-selling smartphone vendor during those three months, Gartner reported Feb. 15. Canalys and iHS iSuppli have already shared fourth-quarter results, which also show healthy returns for Apple and its iPhone franchise. Smartphone sales grew […]

Mobile Internet data traffic is increasing at a rate that tests a mere mortal’s math prowess. With increases in streaming content, growing connections from mobile device and machine-to-machine (M2M) modules and powerful mobile devices leading the way, Cisco Systems reports in a new Visual Networking Index Forecast that worldwide mobile data traffic is expected to […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out two new thin-clients, the HP t510 and HP t610. Each comes standard with dual-core CPUs, graphics cores that offload computing from the server to the chipset, support for multiple monitors and remote connections, and 2GB of RAM, which is double the minimum previously shipped on HP thin clients. Intended for highly […]

Motorola’s first Android phone to run Ice Cream Sandwich, or version 4.0, as well as Intel’s new Medfield hardware, is more understated than it is a head-turner, if leaked photos posted by PocketNow on Feb. 14 prove to be the real deal. The Motorola smartphone is slim and gray, with a button-free, touch-screen-centric face. The […]

Apple has been asked to behave like an industry leader and has responded in kind. On Feb. 13, the iPhone maker announced that, at Apple’s request, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) will conduct voluntary audits of Apple’s assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China. The first inspections began the same morning, at […]

The Apple iPad 3, by all accounts but Apple’s, will arrive in March, and there’s no end to the speculations about what the industry-changing device’s latest incarnation will feature. So far, educated guesses include: €¢ The inclusion of much faster chip. AllThingsD reported Feb. 9, citing unnamed sources, that the next iPad would look much […]

Samsung Galaxy devices had a stellar 2011, and with the Feb. 13 introduction of the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), it says it’s officially kicking off is 2012 lineup. Ice Cream Sandwich, Google’s Android 4.0, is on board out of the box, making clear that software changes are what’s to take note of in this new […]