Michelle Maisto

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are all currently boasting that they offer 4G speeds in various areas. Perhaps not so surprisingly, then, the mobile infrastructure market-which suffered double-digit declines in 2009 and single-digit declines in 2010-is expected to grow from $34 billion in 2010 to $42 billion in 2015, according to a Feb. 14 report […]

AT&T is also showing its subscribers a little love this Valentine’s Day. According to a number of sources, the no-longer-exclusive provider of the Apple iPhone is giving away 1,000 free rollover minutes to its iPhone users for a limited time. “You’re a valued AT&T customer. We’d like to add 1,000 bonus rollover minutes [to your […]

Skype announced two new programs from the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona this Valentine’s Day, as well as sent out some love, with the limited offer of free Internet access across Spain. Now through midnight Central European Time on Feb. 18, WiFi Internet connectivity is free through Skype Access-normally a pay-as-you go plan that […]

Part of Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s big plan to save the ailing Finnish phone maker is to join with Microsoft in a strategic alliance, a key component of which involves adopting the software giant’s Windows Phone 7 operating system in place of Symbian and the MeeGo OS Nokia has been developing with Intel. Tack sharp […]

The Verizon Wireless iPhone 4 carries a bill of materials totaling $171.35, making it a few bucks cheaper than AT&T’s GSM-based model, IHS iSuppli reported Feb. 9. The AT&T phone, by the firm’s estimate, carried a BOM of $187.51. The costliest items on the BOM are the phone’s memory, which is supplied by Samsung and […]

Nokia and Microsoft officials hope that by combining forces, they can become significant players in a lucrative and highly competitive smartphone market in which each has struggled while rivals Google and Apple have flourished. At a joint press conference in London Feb. 11, Nokia and Microsoft announced plans to form a strategic partnership that will […]

What do you do when not one but two major competitors offer an Apple iPhone? Hold on tight to the customers you have. That will be Sprint’s plan, CEO Dan Hesse said during a Feb. 10 conference call to announce the carrier’s fourth-quarter 2010 earnings, on the morning that Verizon Wireless officially began offering its […]

The Dell Adamo is no more. A source has told Cnet that Dell will discontinue the Adamo laptop line and brand name, after almost two years of lackluster sales. Thin and lovely, machined from a single piece of lightweight aluminum, and launched as the thinnest PC in the world, the Adamo was Dell’s answer to […]

Yoo-hoo, over here! AT&T Wireless called attention to a new, unlimited offer, as rival Verizon Wireless readied itself to offer a new Code Division Multiple Access version of the iPhone 4. The AT&T offer isn’t for data-on that front, it has realized that tiered pricing is best-but for voice calls. Beginning Feb. 10, AT&T customers […]

MetroPCS, the nation’s fifth-largest wireless carrier, has introduced what may be the first commercially available 4G LTE (Long-Term Evolution) Android smartphone, the Samsung Indulge. According to a Feb. 9 statement from the carrier, the Indulge will go on sale this week. The carrier, which doesn’t tie customers to contracts or offer subsidies, will price the […]

The CDMA version of the Apple iPhone can now be ordered on the Verizon Wireless and Apple Web sites – though Apple says the phone, which officially goes on sale Feb. 10, won’t begin shipping until Feb. 18. A shortage of devices, however, isn’t the only issue facing Apple fans nearing the end of a […]

It’s time for a “radical change” at Nokia, new company CEO, Stephen Elop emphatically insisted in an internal note to employees, posted Feb. 8 by Engadget and reviewed by the Wall Street Journal. A Jerry McGuire-style, 1,200-plus-word manifesto, the document arrives just days before Elop’s Feb. 11 date with investors in London, where he is […]