Michelle Maisto

Apple, with HealthKit, has proposed a way to offer consumers more complete views of their health profiles by bringing together information from a variety of sources. Tanner Labs, with a new platform called Welbe, is now offering enterprises something similar. A native app with a colorful and modern design, Welbe brings together information from popular […]

If you’re an enterprise that still doesn’t support Apple devices, you’re part of a slim and shrinking minority, according to a new report from Dimensional Research. The report was sponsored by JAMF Software, which creates management software for the Apple platform. To answer a question of whether Apple devices are being managed as effectively and […]

That banks and other wealth managers are facing changing times was the clear takeaway from a panel discussion hosted by Verizon June 10. Although banks are among the organizations that consumers trust most, studies have shown, they’re being seriously threatened by a changing mobile landscape that has consumers shifting their brand allegiances and expecting significantly […]

Motorola has finally experienced some enthusiastic success around its Moto X smartphones. The phone maker—which Google is in the process of selling to Lenovo—is so confident that people who try out the Moto X will love it, that it announced an offer to build custom-ordered phones and ship them to users who can try them […]

Showing off the Asus PadFone X at a May press event, an Asus executive called it a “niche” product. As such, he acknowledged, the device—an unusual two-in-one hybrid made up of a 5-inch smartphone that slides into a tablet shell to power its 9-inch display—isn’t for everyone. This is really the most essential thing that […]

Apple will introduce a watchlike wearable device this fall that will be able to manage users’ biometric information, the Nikkei reported June 6, four days after Apple’s introduction of iOS 8 and its Health and HealthKit applications. The device will likely use a “curved organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touchscreen and collect health-related data, such as […]

Banks Must Innovate to Keep Young Customers from Embracing Web Rivals by Michelle Maisto For Banks, an Alibaba Warning Amazon “made waves” in 2012 when it began offering merchant loans, but it was already three years behind China’s Alibaba. By offering savings account interest rates up to 15 times higher than standard banks, within nine […]

Sprint and T-Mobile have finalized the details of a merger, which will entail Sprint buying T-Mobile for approximately $40 a share, or $32 billion, The New York Times reported June 4, citing people familiar with the matter. None of the involved companies—including T-Mobile parent company Deutsche Telekom, which Reuters reported May 29 will keep a […]

Amazon has released a teaser video for a device that CEO Jeff Bezos will introduce at a Seattle event June 18. In the video, we see the reactions and expressions of a series of people who are looking down, using the device, though it and their hands are just outside the frame. They bob their […]

Vodafone, the world’s second largest wireless carrier, released a comprehensive Law Enforcement Disclosure Report on the official policies and eavesdropping practices of government agencies in 29 of the countries where it provides phone services. In some instances, agencies can listen in on live conversations without a warrant and with minimal effort while, in others, they […]

A very divided Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a report about how it intends to run its upcoming wireless spectrum auctions. One auction will involve 65MHz of high-band spectrum—spectrum above 1GHz that’s considered “capacity spectrum” and ideal for deployments across vast distances. The other, a 600MHz Incentive Auction, will include significant amounts of low-band […]

WiFi Calling is among the new features of iOS 8 that Apple didn’t get to highlight on stage during its introduction of the mobile platform at its Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) June 2. T-Mobile was quick to announce that it will support the feature, which enables users to, as the name suggests, place a phone […]