Michelle Maisto

Sprint will begin selling ZTE’s first tablet for North America Feb. 5. In a world of fast-selling Apple iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tabs, the ZTE Optik is likely to attract attention for its selling price: $100 with a two-year service agreement. The Optik runs Android 3.2, known as Honeycomb, and features a 7-inch touch-screen with […]

Sprint reportedly is giving LightSquared some slack, agreeing to extend the deadline by which the hopeful LTE 4G company must gain the approval of the Federal Communications Commission.LightSquared, owned by billionaire Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Capital Partners hedge fund, first promised to have the matter of its untraditional network interfering with GPS signals resolved by a […]

The Samsung Galaxy S III will not, as hoped, make its grand debut at Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress 2012 event in February, according to Samsung. Instead, the smartphone will receive its own party.“The successor to the Galaxy S2 smartphone will be unveiled at a separate Samsung-hosted event in the first half of the year, closer […]

AT&T will begin selling the Samsung Galaxy Note Feb. 19 for $300 with a two-year contract. Impatient folks, or anyone wanting assurance they’ll get their hands on one-and be able to choose between Carbon Blue and Ceramic White-wil be able to preorder Feb. 5, with delivery by Feb. 17.Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) […]

Apple is the world’s No. 1 PC maker, thanks in large part to the skyrocketing success of the iPad, according to research firm Canalys. Canalys has led the push to include tablet sales in PC totals. With tablets included, 120 million PCs shipped during the fourth quarter of 2011, up 16 percent from the same […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook is “deeply troubled” and “concerned” about issues within theApple supply chain and accidents that have harmed workers, according to an email he sent to employees that has been distributed on the Internet.Cook reportedly wrote the Jan. 26 and published by 9to5Mac in response to last week’s The New York Times article, […]

The tussle for dominance between Apple iPhones and Google Android smartphones is the main story in the consumer device space. But a new global survey from Forrester Research shows a different story in the workplace. When nearly 4,000 information workers were asked which operating system their work device runs, Apple, Android and Research In Motion’s […]

Apple and Samsung continued their neck-and-neck race as the top smartphone vendor through the fourth quarter of 2011, with Apple bolstered by sales of its iPhone 4S.As predicted, the October arrival of the much-delayed iPhone 4S enabled Apple to pull ahead of its Android-supporting rival and reinstate itself as the No. 1 worldwide smartphone provider […]

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson offered lengthy commentary on his feelings toward the Federal Communications Commission during the carrier’s Jan. 26 fourth-quarter 2011 earnings call. AT&T’s initial response to the FCC report detailing its decision to block AT&T’s proposed purchase of No. 4 U.S. carrier T-Mobile arguably came across as some may have expected: Like a […]

The Droid Razr Maxx is now available on the Verizon Wireless network for $300. Motorola’s answer to the “but” that followed otherwise positive reviews of its still relatively new Droid Razr, the Razr Maxx is said to feature a battery life of up to 21 hours on a single charge, making it the longest-lasting smartphone […]

AT&T activated 7.6 million Apple iPhones during its 2011 fourth quarter and sold 9.4 million smartphones in total. This made it not only AT&T’s best-ever quarter for Apple and Android smartphone sales, but the best-ever quarter for smartphone sales in the history of the industry, AT&T CFO John Stephens said during a Jan. 26 earnings […]

The Chronic Dev Team, a group of iOS hackers, has unveiled its GreenPois0n toolkit, a free download enabling Apple iPhone 4S and iPad 2 owners to jailbreak their devices. The download came at the cost of “thousands of hours of brain power and effort from a legion of world-renowned hackers,” the group said in a […]