Michelle Maisto

Verizon Wireless was surely hoping its deal with Comcast and three other cable companies would proceed quietly€”the mirror opposite of what happened when AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile in 2011. But, no such luck. Sprint, T-Mobile, DirectTV, the Rural Telecommunications Group and the Rural Cellular Association believe that too little information about the deal has […]

Fans of Apple products are asking the device maker to live up to its own advertising and think differently, especially when it comes to how the company manufactures its iPhones and iPads. After The New York Times ran a seven-page expose€”quickly followed by similar reports from CBS News and “This American Life” among other news […]

Lenovo, the world’s No. 2 PC maker, saw record sales of $8.4 billion during its fiscal 2011 third quarter, which concluded Dec. 31. Growing faster than its top-five ranking peers, it additionally enjoyed global market share of 14 percent€”its highest ever. Lenovo, which announced its quarterly results Feb. 9, has been executing a “protect and […]

Sprint, during its first full quarter with the Apple iPhone, reported a net loss of $1.3 billion and a diluted loss of 43 cents per share during the fourth quarter of 2011. This was the bad news. The good news was that Sprint, which announced its fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 8, sold 1.8 million iPhones€”though UBS […]

LG Electronics has released a teaser video showing off the sharp, clean lines of what it’s calling the LG Optimus VU, a “phablet” with a 4:3 aspect ratio and a 5-inch display, on the diagonal. A photo of the device of the Japanese site Datacider shows a date stamp on the device of Feb. 21, […]

Sprint and Orange Business Services, the enterprise division of France Telecom-Orange, have inked a new deal that will extend Sprint’s machine-to-machine (M2M) services to 180 countries. The announcement comes on the eve of Sprint€™s fiscal fourth-quarter 2011 earnings release, scheduled for Feb. 8. €œSprint recognizes that its customers compete in the global economy and they […]

Verizon Wireless will launch its newest Android smartphone, the Motorola Droid 4, on Feb. 10 for $200 with a new two-year contract. If nothing says love like 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) speeds and a 4-inch quarter-high-defintion (qHD) display with scratch-resistant glass, your Valentine is in luck. The Droid 4 measures “less than half an inch […]

Android took a number of shots at Apple€™s iOS during the Super Bowl, courtesy of Samsung, and now comes another hit: iOS applications crash more often than Android applications do, according to data from Crittercism. Crittercism, which provides developers with real-time, actionable crash reports for mobile applications, measured crashes between November and December, and in […]

Smartphone sales surpassed those of PCs for the first time ever, during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to research firm Canalys. What’s more, smartphones also outsold PCs€”even with the inclusion of tablets, such as the Apple iPad, into the mix. In all, vendors shipped 158.5 million smartphones during the quarter, up 57 percent from […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has once again been asked to protect the rights of smartphone-toting consumers from big-business spectrum deals. Following AT&T’s nine-month process of trying to convince the FCC that allowing it to purchase T-Mobile would benefit Americans, it’s now a Verizon Wireless deal that is the catalyst. Verizon announced in early December […]

With the Verizons and AT&Ts of the world racing to roll out 4G Long-Term Evolution networks, the technology is expected to become the industry’s primary area of infrastructure spending. Analysts with IHS iSuppli, in a Jan. 31 report, said they now expect global capital spending on LTE technology to reach $24.3 billion in 2013, nearly […]

Apple topped the smartphone market during the fourth quarter of 2011, but add in feature phones, and it’s Nokia that, despite falling shares, is still the global leader, according to market research firm IDC. Nokia shipped 113.5 million units during the quarter, down from 123.7 million during the same quarter a year ago, IDC analysts […]