Michelle Maisto

Toshiba’s business laptop customers have been asking for lighter machines and more robust battery life without a sacrifice to performance, according to the company, and on April 12 it delivered, with thinnest-ever versions of its Tecra and Port??«g??« laptops. The company introduced an ultraportable Port??«g??« R830, a Tecra R840-25 percent thinner and 20 percent lighter […]

Hewlett-Packard’s workstation-making history extends back 30 years, and on April 12, at the Microsoft MIX11 event in Las Vegas, the PC maker kept the tradition going with the introduction of three new mobile workstations, a convertible minitower and new small form-factor workstations. The high-powered machines, for markets from animation to finance to oil and gas, […]

Nokia has introduced the E6 and X7, two slim steel-and-glass smartphones that are the first to run the most updated version of the Symbian operating system. While Nokia has made clear that its priorities are now with Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS, Nokia has said that it plans to ship at least 150 million Symbian-running […]

Lenovo made a new commitment to cloud computing April 12 with the introduction of Cloud Ready Client, a software package designed to ease the process of accessing applications and services from a cloud infrastructure. In addition to the new cloud software, Lenovo is rolling out its SCA (Secure Cloud Access), which is powered by Stoneware’s […]

Nokia has a big Symbian announcement planned for April 12, but it is already receiving heavy criticism regarding its treatment of the mobile operating system. In a March 31 blog post titled “We are Open!” on the Symbian blog, a Nokia official announced that the company is making the latest version of the Symbian source […]

Consumer Reports has more bad news for T-Mobile customers already fearing what AT&T’s proposed purchase of their carrier might mean for them. Following a survey with more than 50,000 subscriber participants last fall, the publication determined that the sale of T-Mobile to AT&T could be a “setback” for T-Mobile customers. The worry is that T-Mobile’s […]

The iPad’s ever-expanding number of competitors is expected to continue nibbling away at its tablet market share lead, but Apple will continue to dominate for some time, holding onto the market-share majority through at least 2015, according to market research firm Gartner. In an April 11 report, Gartner put Apple’s 2010 year-end market share tally […]

While Verizon Wireless would like to “rule the air,” as its ads suggest, the carrier, along with AT&T, must instead share the air, according to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC ruled April 7 that the two giants must work with smaller carriers so that the latter can extend voice and data roaming capabilities to […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion took a break from chasing consumer Apple iPhone and iPad sales to do what it does best: Ease the ills of enterprise workers. In its BlackBerry Beta Zone April 8, RIM introduced BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing, a free application that simplifies setting up, accepting and participating in conference calls. BlackBerry Mobile […]

The Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet can now be preordered at BestBuy.com. An exclusive offering of the big-box retailer, customers will be able to place orders in the store beginning April 14, and the tablet will finally begin selling Easter morning, April 24. The Iconia Tab features a 10.1-inch multitouch screen, a Nvidia Tegra 250 […]

Commodore USA is reviving a classic, its clunky, boxy, taupe wonder, the Commodore 64. A first computer for geeks everywhere, the 64KB Commodore 64 debuted in 1982-two years after its little brother, the 16-color, 5KB VIC 20. This time around, however, its gigantic keyboard will house a full all-in-one Ubuntu PC with a 1.8GHz Intel […]

The Motorola Atrix 4G smartphone and Xoom tablet are selling just fine, say their respective carriers, AT&T and Verizon Wireless. The comments from the two carriers came after separate April 6 reports from Pacific Crest analyst James Faucette and Deustche Bank indicated that sales of the devices were lower than Motorola and many industry observers […]