Michelle Maisto

One criticism of the newly launched, super thin and light Apple MacBook Air? It’s a lot more user-friendly when it’s working. “Simply put, a plethora of proprietary parts prevents people from painlessly fixing their machines,” reports repair site iFixit, which following the Oct. 20 introduction and launch of Apple’s “best Mac yet” performed a teardown […]

Windows Phone 7, the new operating system with which Microsoft has rejoined the mobile phone market, is “novel,” with some nice and attractive features that distinguish it from the mobile OSes of market dominators Apple and Google. But it’s not enough to make consumers with an eye on the iPhone, or an Android-running phone, rethink […]

Apple MacBook Air Notebooks Feature iLife ’11, OS X Lion No Title Apple MacBook Air Two new versions of the Apple MacBook Air are now available, an 11-inch model with an 11.6-inch, high-resolution LED-backlit display and a 13-inch version with a 13.3-inch display. The former begins at $999, and the latter at $1,199. No Title […]

AT&T’s pending loss of exclusive U.S. rights to the Apple iPhone will likely be a low day for the carrier. But no matter. For now the provider of the iPhone 4, which has gradually put together a diverse mobile portfolio that now includes every major mobile operating system, is riding high. The carrier on Oct. […]

Following a Taiwanese news report that HTC was experiencing “glitches” with its newly introduced Windows Phone 7 devices, officials with the smartphone maker said that all is well and that devices will ship on time. “We are shipping our (WP7) phones this week, as planned,” an HTC spokesperson told ZDNet.com. “Everything pointing to a delay […]

Verizon Wireless, which is expected to begin offering an Apple iPhone by early 2011, will begin offering tiered pricing for its data plans beginning Oct. 28. Initially offered as a holiday promotion, according to the Wall Street Journal, Verizon will offer customers the option of a $15 monthly plan for a limit of 150MB, or […]

At Apple’s much-hyped event Oct. 20 at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., campus, CEO Steve Jobs offered attendees an early look at Mac OS X Lion, introduced updates to iLife ’11 and announced that FaceTime, a capability previously only available on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch, is now available for Macs. But the big news […]

iPad growth? Sure. But perhaps more surprising is news that Apple desktops are also riding high. On Oct. 18, Apple posted its first-ever quarterly revenues in excess of $20 billion, which were partly attributable to sales of its industry-birthing iPad and the iPhone 4. While there has been much talk of the iPad – and […]

Hewlett-Packard has introduced WebOS 2.0, the long-promised update to the open source OS it acquired during its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm in July. Additionally, HP, which has been keen to rejoin the lucrative smartphone market, introduced the Palm Pre 2-a speedier, updated version of the original Pre that will be the first smartphone to […]

More Apple iPads will wind up in the hands of consumers than was previously expected, according to an Oct. 18 report from research firm iSuppli. The news follows Apple’s fourth-quarter earnings announcement on Oct. 18. During the report, Apple executives said the company shipped 4.2 million iPads during the three months ending Sept. 25, indicating, […]

Motorola and Nokia may be competitors for market share in the high-end smartphone space, but the pair knows when to work together toward a common goal. In a shared statement, the two said they are extending an existing intellectual property licensing agreement to include 4G technologies such as LTE (Long Term Evolution) WiMax and LTE-Advanced. […]

Sprint, Clearwire and Time Warner Cable are planning to pick up the pace for New Yorkers. In an Oct. 18 announcement, the three announced plans to launch 4G mobile Internet services “later this year” in the Big Apple, each under its own 4G brand. Each service, however, will be based on Clearwire’s WiMax technology – […]