Michelle Maisto

The e-book market is poised to ship 30 million units in 2013, doubling 2012’s totals, ABI Research reported in a Dec. 6 report. U.S. readers, embracing the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook and Sony Reader, have built up the market, which the firm now expects to begin expanding globally over the next few years. […]

As a Verizon Wireless iPhone becomes “closer to reality,” the carrier may be negotiating to prevent competitors Sprint and T-Mobile from getting iPhones of their own, according to a Dec. 6 research note from Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu. Following Apple’s record shipments of 14.1 million iPhones in the September quarter, Wu describes Apple as […]

Apple, Nokia, HTC, Samsung Offer Sub-$100 Smartphones for Holiday Lists by Michelle Maisto T-Mobile myTouch 4G T-Mobile has begun calling itself “Americas largest 4G network,” and to complement that distinction it introduced the myTouch 4G. The smartphone runs Android 2.2, has 3.8-inch WVGA touch screen, a 1GHz processor and can video chat with or without […]

Motorola has announced that its planned separation into two companies will occur Jan. 4, despite hopes of completing the transition by year’s end. The company will separate its consumer side, which makes products such as the successful Droid and Droid 2 smartphones, from a side that sells enterprise equipment.Greg Brown will be the co-CEO of […]

Verizon Wireless, the nation’s largest carrier, will turn on its 4G LTE network in 38 metropolitan areas and 60 commercial airports Sunday Dec. 5. The network will offer speeds that are “10 times” that of its 3G network, according to Verizon executives. Verizon will additionally begin offering two new 4G LTE USB modems for laptop […]

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing that some broadcast television airwaves be used to meet the nation’s growing demand for mobile broadband services, which is being driven by widespread smartphone adoption and the increasing use of mobile devices such as laptops and tablets. The Obama administration has suggested making 500Mhz of spectrum from television stations […]

U.S. Department of Transportation officials are considering software solutions that would prevent cell phones from working in moving vehicles, Secretary of Transportation Raymond LaHood said at a talk this month, according to Discovery News. The comment followed the launch of the department’s “Faces of Distracted Driving” campaign, designed to call attention to the nearly 5,500 […]

Sprint is the latest carrier to add to the 4G conversation, announcing Nov. 29 that it has rolled out 4G service in six new cities-Los Angeles; Miami; Washington D.C.; and Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio-bringing its total number of covered markets to 68. With 4G-enabled devices, or WiFi-enabled devices in a 4G device hot spot, […]

TheHTC HD7 appears to be the latest smartphone to fall victim to the antenna “death grip,” according to reports. In a video from YouTube that is making the rounds, the phone is seen dropping bars when encircled in a meaty mitt-the so-called death grip-and then regaining them when released. Beyond the obvious damage control, it […]

Apple is compiling a top-notch legal team as it prepares to face off with Nokia this week in front of the International Trade Commission, Bloomberg reported Nov. 29. The phone makers have traded allegations of patent infringement both in U.S. courts and with the ITC, beginning with a suit Nokia filed in October 2009 regarding […]

The Federal Communications Commission Website is offering details about two new smartphones coming from Samsung. The first, Phone Scoop reports, is for a device suspected to run Google’s Android OS, called the R700. It has a touch-screen, a camera, a headset jack and lock keys, and supports dual-band CDMA with EvDO (Evolution Data Optimized) 3G. […]

The media tablet market, which was reinvigorated by Apple when it launched the iPad earlier this year, and a handful of other factors are hampering worldwide PC sales, research firm Gartner announced in a Nov. 29 report. Shipments are now expected to reach 352.4 million units in 2010-a 14.3 percent increase over 2009 figures, but […]