Michelle Maisto

Apple’s iPhone may be the best-selling smartphone on the market, but Nokia CEO Stephen Elop intends for his company to take an approach more like that of Google’s Android-to offer a broad portfolio of mobile phones that hit multiple price points. In an interview with a host of the Finnish television show A-Plus, Elop-whose company […]

Changes to the pricing terms of AT&T’s high-speed Internet broadband service go into effect May 2. The changes, which include additional language to several portions of the customer contract, include a data cap of 150GB per month for DSL customers and 250GB for U-Verse subscribers. “AT&T has experienced a dramatic increase in the amount of […]

Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint have each responded to requests from lawmakers regarding their policies toward the location-based information that the smartphones they offer collect. The fact that smartphones-which make heavy use of location-relevant information, from offering walking directions to enabling 911 calls to be tracked-are continually noting the location of users came into […]

Brisk smartphone sales-with Apple’s the briskest of all-helped push global mobile phone shipments to 371.8 million units during the first quarter, IDC reported April 28. The figure was a 20 percent jump from the 310.5 million units that shipped a year earlier. Key drivers in the smartphone sales, said the research firm, was growth in […]

Research In Motion is dialing back its earnings forecast for its fiscal 2012 first quarter, due to lower-than-expected BlackBerry smartphone sales. RIM, whose quarter will end May 28, is losing its footing in a smartphone market dominated by the Apple iPhone and Android-running devices. The company announced April 28 that its BlackBerry smartphone shipments during […]

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, during a conference call April 28 to talk about the carrier’s earnings, continued his sharp criticism of AT&T’s proposed $39 billion bid for T-Mobile, claiming the combined company and Verizon Wireless would have a “duopoly” that would hurt both competition and innovation. Speaking with analysts and journalists to announce Sprint’s first-quarter […]

The debate surrounding Apple’s practice of recording iPhone location data has dealt a blow to the device maker’s reputation, according to a study that took a look at the brand perception of the iPhone in the wake of the controversy. That reputation could take an even greater hit if a congressman gets his way and […]

Led by the Apple iPad, worldwide PC shipments increased 7 percent during the first quarter, according to research firm Canalys, which includes tablets in its counts of PC sales, rather than listing them separately. PC shipments during the quarter totaled 88.6 million units, up from 82.8 million a year ago, while tablet shipments reach 6.4 […]

Sony S1 Tablet Sony is planning to release two tablets worldwide this fall. One of them, code-named “S1,” features a 9.7-inch display. S1 Side View “If I want to differentiate it from others, do I release it tomorrow, or do I wait till I differentiate it?” Sony CEO Howard Stringer told Reuters in January. Sony […]

Nokia has announced plans to outsource its Symbian software activities to consulting firm Accenture, which also will take on about 3,000 Nokia employees. In a separate statement April 27, Nokia also announced plans to reduce its global workforce by an additional 4,000 employees by the end of 2012, as it seeks to reduce its operating […]

Apple officials say the company is not tracking iPhone and iPad users but has admitted that excessive amounts of device location data have been stored, due to a software glitch. Apple has been under intense scrutiny from users, industry observers and lawmakers for more than a week following the discovery that its iPhones and iPads […]

RIM BlackBerry PlayBook Months past its expected launch date, the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook went on sale April 19. Priced from $499 to $699, the PlayBook relies on a wireless tethering feature called BlackBerry Bridge, which uses the connectivity of a BlackBerry smartphone to display email, calendar and other information from the phone. LCD Display The […]