Michelle Maisto

Lenovo and Intel have teamed up to offer the Lenovo Classmate+ PC, a rugged notebook for students in kindergarten through the eighth grade. Built to stand up to the challenges of young users, they feature spill-resistant keyboards, rugged exteriors and built-in handles, giving the notebooks a sturdy clamshell appearance. The notebooks come preloaded with Intel’s […]

The Apple iPad 2 isn’t incredibly different from its predecessor, according to a number of March 10 reviews, arriving a day before the device itself. But the changes Apple has made, they suggest, are enough to ensure that Apple will remain the flush winner in a game it created and has now upped the ante […]

Barnes & Noble may be struggling as a bookseller, but on the tablet front, it’s on to something. The bookseller’s newest e-reader, the Nook Color, may actually be the perfect Android tablet for folks unwilling to pony up $500 for an Apple iPad or $800 for a Motorola Xoom, the Wall Street Journal’s Brett Arends […]

Every PC shipped by Hewlett-Packard, beginning in 2012, will include the ability to run webOS, the mobile operating system HP acquired last year in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm. However, HP is not abandoning Microsoft just yet. The company still plans to offer Microsoft’s Windows operating system as well as productivity tools such as […]

The Verizon iPhone 4 is slower than its AT&T counterpart, according to Metrico, a company that tests mobile device performance. This bit of bad news for the long-awaited device follows reports that it additionally suffers from antenna signal loss when held in the “death grip” – a phrase coined after the release of the AT&T […]

Lenovo has introduced the ThinkPad X220 laptop and X220 Tablet PC, its second new round of thin and light business ThinkPad notebooks, in the last few weeks, to be updated with Intel’s “Sandy Bridge” 2nd Generation Core processors. The chips are said to be 20 percent faster than previous generations and to offer twice the […]

Dell is shipping more systems with the new Intel “Sandy Bridge” processors and updated “Cougar Point” chipset hardware “than just about anyone else,” according to a company spokesman, and that trend will only continue. In a March 7 blog post, Lionel Menchaca said that over the next six weeks, the company will expand the systems […]

Sony’s new Vaio S Series of laptops are now available for pre-sale in the United States, starting at $970. Think you already heard the news? That was an announcement for a European version; the U.S. version, says Sony, is a bit more robust, offering the option of up to a second-generation, 2.7GHz Intel Core i7 […]

Samsung Electronics will release its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet according to schedule, executives have said, according to the Korean Yonhap News Agency. The news follows a comment from Samsung Executive Vice President Lee Don-Joo, who reportedly had reacted to the introduction of the Apple iPad 2 by saying that Samsung “will have to improve parts […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion is losing its chief marketing officer just weeks before launching its PlayBook tablet, a device officials hope will compete with Apple’s iPad and provide a turning point for the company. However, despite the timing so near to the PlayBook release, losing CMO Keith Pardy could be a positive development for […]

Apple iPhone owners on the AT&T network will soon be able to enjoy tethering-or as Apple calls it, a Personal Hotspot feature-when Apple releases iOS 4.3 March 11. “Yes, AT&T plans to support the iOS 4.3 mobile hotspot feature,” an AT&T spokesperson told eWEEK. “To utilize this feature, customers will need to subscribe to the […]

Apple’s March 2 introduction of the iPad 2 is sending Samsung executives back to the drawing board. “We will have to improve the parts that are inadequate,” Samsung Executive Vice President Lee Don-Joo told the Yonhap news agency, according to Physorg.com, reflecting on how Samsung’s contribution to a market spurred by the original iPad now […]