Michelle Maisto

Sprint President of Business Markets Paget Alves said the carrier will release a 4G-enabled tablet in 2011, according to reporting from Forbes. Currently, Sprint-like eventually Verizon Wireless, AT&T, T-Mobile and U.S. Cellular-offers the Samsung Galaxy Tab. The tablet, however, is only capable of running at 3G speeds, despite the fact that Sprint, a majority owner […]

Who’s on Twitter? Eight percent of American adult Internet users, and particularly young adults, minorities and people living in cities, according to Dec. 9 report from the Pew Research Center. Of those users, 2 percent said they visit the site on a daily basis. Diverting from previous surveys, in which Twitter was lumped in “another […]

As 2011 nears, a new, free report from the Yankee Group is offering 13 predictions on the significant developments that 4G is likely to drive in the new year. The general message here is: slow, then fast. As with 3G, deployments and consumer interest will arrive incrementally, but once the speed and, so, power of […]

Verizon Wireless has cut the pricing of its prepaid daily voice plan from $3.99 to $1.99, and doubled the texting rate on the plan from a penny to 2 cents, Fierce Wireless first reported. The plan also offers unlimited mobile-to-mobile calling, as well as unlimited night and weekend minutes. And as with all of Verizon’s […]

Jon Rubinstein, head of Hewlett-Packard’s Palm unit, gave the audience at the San Francisco D:Dive Into Mobile a glimpse into the inner workings behind the HP and Palm brands, though revealed little about future roadmaps, according to a number of media reports. Rubinstein – the CEO of Palm before it was purchased by HP this […]

Dell, for the second straight quarter, held its lead over Acer during the global PC market’s third quarter, market research firm iSuppli reported Dec. 7. The Texas PC maker, which remained in second place and was boosted by corporate PC sales, sold 11.3 million units, representing a growth of 7.2 percent over the 10.5 million […]

Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis confirmed that the company’s BlackBerry smartphones will eventually run the QNX-based operating system poised to debut on the company’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. “By focusing on the tablet market, we see an opportunity to free where the smartphone can go,” Lazaridis said at the San Francisco D: Dive Into Mobile […]

Samsung has plans to boost mobile handset shipments by 18 percent in 2011, toward a goal of 330 million units, according to a Dec. 7 report from Reuters. The report states that an unnamed senior executive at Samsung told Electronic Times Internet of the company’s plans. A Samsung official told Reuters that shipments “would exceed […]

Motorola Solutions is introducing the MC55A0, a WiFi-enabled enterprise handheld that the company is calling the industry’s most rugged. Designed for customer-facing applications, outfitted with government-grade security features and able to withstand 1,000 tumbles in a rotating tumble drum, the device strives to marry field toughness with office efficiency. Motorola developed the device for vertical […]

Led by Hewlett-Packard and Dell, the workstation market is on a steady march back to pre-economic-downfall levels, Jon Peddie Research reported in a Dec. 7 statement. During the third quarter, the industry shipped 849,700 workstations, representing a 31.8 percent year-over-year growth. Moreover, JPR analyst Alex Herrera found the quarter to be “Goldilocks-ideal: not too hot, […]

Mobile phone maker LG Electronics and virtualization pioneer VMware are creating a partnership that they hope will make businesses more secure and employees happier – and enable LG to grab some enterprise market share. Using end-user virtualization technology from VMware, the two will enable LG smartphones to securely host a corporate e-mail account separately from […]

Clearwire, working to secure funding to continue the build-out of its WiMax-based 4G network, sold more than $1.3 billion in debt, the company announced in a Dec. 6 statement. Clearwire, which wireless carrier Sprint owns a majority stake in, has said it plans to cover 68 U.S. markets and 120 million people by year’s end. […]