Michelle Maisto

AT&T is hoping the muscle of Silicon Valley dollars will be enough to push its proposed purchase of T-Mobile through the hoops of federal regulators who need to approve the deal. According to a May 18 report in the Wall Street Journal, AT&T executives met with Silicon Valley technology companies and venture capital firms this […]

An evolving Nokia knows that the world is full of creative people with smart ideas-and it’s opening its doors to them. The latest new thing from the Stephen Elop-led Nokia is “Invent With Nokia”-an initiative inviting people to submit ideas that Nokia will pay for if they decide to use them. The Nokia Conversations blog […]

T-Mobile isn’t just kicking back and waiting for AT&T to solve its financial woes. The carrier has an aggressive lineup of new devices planned for this summer and beyond, if a leaked roadmap shared by ThisIsMyNext holds water. In June alone, subscribers could see six new options. Starting on June 8, the already talked-up HTC […]

Has AT&T’s proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile already soured some T-Mobile customers to their carrier? A new survey from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) found AT&T and T-Mobile customers to be the least satisfied customers in the mobile industry. T-Mobile’s score fell from 2010’s 73-which had tied it with Verizon Wireless and put […]

Details of the location-tracking practices of the Apple iPhone and Android-running devices still aren’t sitting well with federal regulators, who have scheduled a June 28 public education forum on the topic to learn a bit more and to help educate consumers. In a May 17 statement, the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission’s […]

Apple is planning to launch new versions of its super-light MacBook Air notebooks this summer, with two of the key features already included in its newest MacBook Pros: Intel’s ThunderBolt port and Intel’s second-generation core “Sandy Bridge” processors, according to Taiwan-based DigiTimes. According to the May 18 report, which cites supply-chain sources, shipments of new […]

Anyone purchasing a Nokia smartphone this summer shouldn’t be surprised to find not a trace of Ovi services brand. In an effort to “reinforce the powerful master brand of Nokia” and “unify” its brand architecture, all Ovi services are being rebranded as Nokia services. The transition will begin in July, and Nokia hopes to see […]

The business customers of No. 2 PC maker Dell helped the company finish its fiscal 2012 first quarter ahead of estimates, with net income of $945 million on revenue of $15 billion. While the revenue figure was up 1 percent from a year ago, net income was up 177 percent. However, disappointingtablet sales cut into […]

Executives from Facebook, Apple and Google are headed to Washington for a second Senate hearing in as many weeks on the issues of consumer privacy and mobility. The hearing May 19 at 10 a.m. ET, called by Sen. John Rockefeller, D-WV, chairman of the Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance Subcommittee, follows a similar one […]

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Thin but by no means frail, the ThinkPad X1 features a 13.3-inch Corning Gorilla Glass display, a spill-resistant keyboard, a magnesium chassis and what Lenovo calls Roll Cage technology. “We stand on them,” said one Lenovo product manager. You stand on them? “Yep.” ThinkPad Features Call it business meets pleasure: The X1 […]

NEW YORK – News of the super-thin Lenovo ThinkPad X1 notebook may have leaked weeks ago, but that didn’t stop the company from giving a proper, enthusiastic welcome to the notebook it’s calling one of its most interesting products ever. At a dinner here for members of the press May 11, Lenovo executives showed off […]

Sprint is hoping to lure away T-Mobile customers who may be feeling uneasy about the prospect of their carrier being taken over by AT&T, should the larger carrier’s $39 billion purchase bid get the thumbs up from federal regulators. Until June 23, Sprint is offering a $175 early termination fee (ETF) credit to business customers […]