Michelle Maisto

AT&T has finally announced pricing and some (light) availability information about the Asus PadFone, a two-for-one device that features a smartphone that slips behind a 9-inch Full HD display to power an LTE-enabled tablet. AT&T introduced the PadFone at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, and in February there was talk of an April arrival […]

Apple hasn’t introduced a new product category since the iPad in 2010, and its last event was seven months ago. But for investors and fans who have grown ornery over the current pace of innovation at Apple, relief may be just a few calendar pages away. Investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald expects Apple to use its […]

Apple, at its Worldwide Developer Conference June 2, is expected to introduce a software platform that will turn its iPhone into a remote control for the home. The Financial Times reported the news May 26, adding that sources call the planned software a “big play” in the world of smart home technology and in Apple’s […]

LG Electronics has introduced the G3, its newest flagship smartphone, with two major messages: the 5.5-inch Quad HD display is gorgeous, and 5.5 inches isn’t as big as you might fear. It has, in the words of an LG teaser video, “grip-ability,” despite its size. Actually, make that three messages. The phone is also, says […]

Samsung, in the next few months, will introduce a smartwatch that can act as a standalone phone, The Wall Street Journal reported May 23, citing people familiar with the company’s plans. This, of course, will be a game-changer. It may affect the saga of Samsung vs. Apple—though very likely Apple would soon enough offer the […]

Luo Yonghao, a former English teacher in China who has gained a following of millions for his willingness to push back against big businesses and the status quo (he once famously led a refrigerator-smashing protest against Siemens), today has his sights on Apple. Far from shaking a fist at Apple, Luo has introduced a smartphone […]

The public pushback continues against proposed Internet rules that would allow businesses to pay for faster content-delivery speeds—what detractors are calling a “fast lane.” The Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) has launched a video created by animators at Pixel Valley Studio, encouraging Internet users—younger users and gamers are the most clearly intended audiences—to sign a […]

Users Like WiFi to Get Email, Maps, Video Conferencing Apps by Michelle Maisto More Business Users Choose WiFi In a survey of 2,200-plus business travelers, 74 percent said they’d prefer a WiFi connection to a cellular one; 77 percent said connecting to WiFi is the biggest challenge to their productivity when they’re traveling. WiFi Is […]

Voice over LTE (VoLTE) has been a longtime promise of all the major carriers, and on May 22 T-Mobile became the first of the big four to offer it to subscribers. VoLTE puts voice and data on a single radio layer. The result is faster call connections, the ability to experience LTE-speed data while on […]

BlackBerry has announced a series of initiatives, for now under an umbrella code-named “Project Ion,” that will focus on helping people and businesses benefit from the information it’s possible to collect from the ever-growing number of connected devices and machines—from the Internet of things (IoT). “Billions of connections generating trillions of transactions and exabytes of […]

Verizon has upgraded what were particularly crowded portions of its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network and improved its spectrum position, and the result in these areas is marked improvements to speeds and the user experience. To get this point across, Verizon has come up with a new name for the experience: XLTE. In XLTE-equipped […]

Samsung certainly knows how to keep the device news coming. Three months after the company introduced its flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone in four colors, the elusive Gold version will finally arrive in the United States on the Sprint and T-Mobile networks May 30. Three months may be just long enough for most people to have […]