Michelle Maisto

HTC Evo 4G In March, HTC and Sprint introduced the Evo 4G, a 3G/4G smartphone running Android 2.1 and featuring—at 4.3 inches—one of the industry’s largest displays, though competitors are catching up. Nonetheless, other serious perks include an 8 megapixel camera, HDMI output, Mobile Hotspot capabilities and HD video capture. A firm release date hasn’t […]

Whether the Apple iPad and its competitors are hurting PC sales is, these days, a popular topic for debate. Less debatable is that worldwide PC sales fell 0.3 percent during the first quarter, from last year’s 81.6 million during the same quarter to 81.3 million most recently, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. The dip […]

In time for the Memorial Day holiday weekend, Verizon is offering four new smartphones and nearly as many firsts. As of May 26, subscribers can purchase: the LG Revolution, the first Android smartphone to come preloaded with the Netflix app; the HTC Trophy, Verizon’s first Windows Phone device and the first to let users play […]

AT&T is planning to deploy long-term evolution 4G services this summer in five markets and will add another 10 markets in the second half of 2011, bringing the total number of Americans covered to about 70 million by year’s end. In a May 25 blog post, AT&T CTO John Donovan said that this summer, AT&T’s […]

Sony is growing its Vaio laptop portfolio with the introduction of new S Series and F Series models. Introduced May 25, the 13.3-inch S Series is geared toward business travelers and students, or really anyone wanting a solid, thin and light notebook (but not needing the hardcore enterprise features of a Lenovo), while the F […]

Regional U.S. carriers with a focus on the prepaid market may not be able to compete as aggressively for customers as the nation’s four largest players-Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile-but changes in the market are nonetheless working in their favor, according to a May 25 research report from financial services firm Citadel Securities. Leap Wireless, […]

The issue of whether AT&T is overcharging the roughly 20 million Americans with iPhones and iPads for their data use has been brought back into the spotlight by an MSNBC investigation. According to the MSNBC investigation, lawyer spent $80,000 and several months testing the data used by iPhones and iPads on both the AT&T and […]

T-Mobile has introduced two new No Annual Contract plan for subscribers to its 4G network, as well as a suite of family and individual plans, proving again that it’s working in earnest to boost its bottom line-despite the possibility of being folded into AT&T in a matter of months. T-Mobile’s “unlimited” Monthly 4G plans require […]

Dell has launched what the company is calling the thinnest 15-inch notebook on the planet-the XPS 15z laptop. It’s the start, the PC maker said in a May 24 announcement, of what will be a new series of thin and powerful Inspiron- and XPS-branded notebooks arriving later this year. The 15z runs second-generation Intel Core […]

As Asus grows its tablet portfolio, it’s working to build some excitement for a new device scheduled to launch at the Computex show in Taiwan, which runs May 31-June 4. Teaser images of the device’s rounded edges and slicker lines have been leaked at Tech In Style, and a more mystical-looking than mystery-building Facebook fan […]

Clearwire will eventually transition from a WiMax-based 4G network to an LTE (Long-Term Evolution) 4G network, Clearwire COO Erik Prusch revealed in an interview with Cnet. Using Clearwire technology, Sprint-which owns a 50-some-percent share of the company-launched its 4G network in 2008, years ahead of its competitors. While Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T are just now […]

Verizon executives have been sharing details about the carrier’s plans for its future, as the carrier continues to expand its 4G Long-Term Evolution network. Speaking at the Reuters Global Technology Summit, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo suggested Verizon might eventually offer data pooling on its Family plans. Just as carriers have sold business customers large pools […]