Michelle Maisto

The Apple iPad and its competitors are changing the way consumers spend their electronics-budget dollars. According to the Nielsen Company, tablets are also changing the way consumers use their devices. Among tablet owners who also own a desktop, 35 percent said that they now use their desktop “less often or not at all,” the firm […]

Sony Ericsson expanded its Xperia handset lineup by two, with the introduction of the Xperia mini and the Xperia mini pro. Both run the Android 2.3 OS, dubbed “Gingerbread,” run 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processors and feature 3-inch, scratch-resistant Sony Reality Displays with Mobile Bravia Engines and HD (720p) video recording. Regarding that HD video-recording feature, […]

RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablets are rumored to be coming and going. As rumors swirled that the wrap-up of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry World would bring the introduction of a 10-inch BlackBerry PlayBook, another emerged that Sprint’s Code Division Multiple Access version of the 7-inch PlayBook has been delayed until further notice. According to details in […]

AT&T has announced that it will begin shipping the HP Veer 4G starting May 15. The newest smartphone out of Hewlett-Packard’s smartphone-savvy Palm division, it’s priced at $100 with a new two-year contract and looks, at a glance, like the Palm Pre-shrunken. According to AT&T, the short and squat Veer 4G is as wide and […]

AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless are reportedly scaling back their hopes for Isis, the mobile commerce network based on near-field communication technology that they introduced in November. Instead of setting up a payment network and collecting fees on every transaction, the trio now have the more modest goal of setting up a “mobile wallet” that […]

New Apple iMac Family On May 3, Apple introduced new iMacs. The smaller, with a 21.5-inch display, features a single Intel ThunderBolt port and starts at $1,199, while the larger features a 27-inch display, two ThunderBolt ports and a starting price of $1,699. (Image courtesy of Apple.) Ports Lineup The ThunderBolt ports are signified by […]

WiMax 4G networks beat Long-Term Evolution out of the gate, but LTE is starting to gain a “critical momentum,” ABI Research reported May 3. In December, Verizon Wireless turned on its LTE network, and according to the firm, 12 countries currently offer commercial LTE services. “ABI Research projects that by the end of the year […]

Apple introduced two new all-in-one iMacs May 3, and repair site iFixit quickly picked up a 21.5-inch model for a teardown that perhaps only a true tech geek could love. Rendering the aluminum-and-glass head-turner into a pile of shiny bits, they found an Intel Thunderbolt port not quite identical to the model in the new […]

Taking a deeper dive into the details of AT&T’s proposed $39 billion purchase of competitor T-Mobile, the U.S. Justice Department has requested additional information from both carriers. The agency has also requested information from the pair’s competitors regarding how the deal will affect their businesses, Bloomberg reported May 3, citing people familiar with the situation. […]

E-reader leader Amazon.com is reportedly moving ahead with plans to offer an iPad-battling, Android-running tablet. According to a May 3 report from Taipei-based DigiTimes, Amazon expects sales of the device to reach 700,000 to 800,000 units a month during the “peak season,” contributing approximately $3.5 billion to the coffers of notebook manufacturer Quanta. Quanta has […]

Apple has introduced new iMac all-in-one desktops, months ahead of their predecessors‘ reaching their first birthdays. The newest iMacs feature next-generation quad-core processors from Intel, discrete graphics from Advanced Micro Devices, the high-speed ThunderBolt I/O technology Apple debuted in February on its newest MacBook Pro notebooks, and a new FaceTime high-definition camera. According to Apple, […]

Apple downplayed the importance of the location data being logged by its iPhones and iPads running iOS 4, but Google, whose Android operating system does the same, finds the data “extremely valuable.” According to a May 1 report from The Wall Street Journal, Steve Lee, a Google engineer, wrote in a May 2010 email to […]