Michelle Maisto

Apple sold 15 million iPads from April to December last year, and every major PC and smartphone manufacturer has since set plans in motion to launch a competing device of its own. Think the tablet market is crazy already? The really intense figures are yet to come. According to a March 4 report from RBC […]

Led by the Apple iPad, media tablets are drawing consumer interest, and dollars, away from PCs, forcing Gartner analysts to lower their projections for 2011 and 2012. In a March 3 report, Gartner said it now expects worldwide PC shipments this year to grow 10.5 percent over 2010-instead of the 15.9 percent predicted earlier-reaching 387.8 […]

The Apple iPhone 4’s antenna continues to attract news. Whether the Verizon version of the smartphone, like its AT&T predecessor, drops calls when held in a certain way-aka the “death grip”-seems to depend on whom you ask. Bearing some cup-half-empty news Feb. 8, tech site iLounge reported that the Verizon iPhone-which is based on CDMA […]

AT&T is now offering tablet owners the option of a postpaid billing plan. Like the prepaid plan, it doesn’t require a long-term contract and is added onto a customer’s existing monthly statement. Beginning March 3, customers can sign up for the postpaid billing option and pay $14.99 for 250MB a month or $25 for 2GB […]

The Apple iPad may have touched off the entire tablet market, but that isn’t stopping competitors from trying to pull rank. While at a glance, RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook and Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad could pass for iPad siblings-screen-size differences aside-the two feature operating systems that bear still more in common. Each features “cards,” representing applications, that users […]

The Apple iPad’s success launched a market that Apple’s PC and smartphone competitors have scrambled to join. Despite the competition, the iPad continues to hold more than 90 percent of the worldwide tablet market share, a percentage that analysts say will eventually erode. With the introduction of the thinner, lighter, faster and more feature-rich iPad […]

Verizon Wireless plans to replace its $30 unlimited data plan with usage-based pricing toward the middle of this summer, Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said during a Morgan Stanley telecom conference. After competitor AT&T’s three years of exclusive rights to the Apple iPhone, Verizon began offering a CDMA-based (Code Division Multiple Access-based) version of the […]

Paul Shin Devine, the former Apple employee at the center of a kickback scheme, admitted to defrauding Apple and pled guilty to criminal accounts of wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering in a Northern California court Feb. 28. The plea is an about-face from the not-guilty plea Devine made Aug. 16, 2010, after being arrested […]

Microsoft may show off an interface for its Windows 8 tablet operating system as early as June, according to a report in Business Insider, citing a source at Microsoft. The source added, according to the site’s Feb. 28 report, that “Microsoft is taking a more Apple-like approach to interface design this time around, and will […]

Led by the Apple iPad, tablets, e-readers and other connected devices are expected to usher in a new mobile reality, and a new role for the United States on the global stage, according to a new report from independent analyst Chetan Sharma. U.S. mobile subscriptions crossed the 100 percent penetration mark during the fourth quarter […]

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer is on a new consumer-protection mission. At a press event Feb. 27, he called on Amazon, Twitter and other major U.S. Website operators to switch from the HTTP-based Web address protocol to the more secure HTTPS-based addresses, according to a Feb. 28 report from Reuters. The N.Y. Democrat held the event […]

When repair site iFixit performed a teardown of a new Apple MacBook Pro Feb. 25, a day after Apple released the new line-which features Intel’s second-generation Core “Sandy Bridge” processors and Advanced Micro Devices Radeon graphics chips-the team was surprised to find details that raised questions about quality. “One thing that has us a little […]