Michelle Maisto

The BlackBerry Torch isn’t the only device with which Research In Motion is working to lure smartphone shoppers away from competitors Apple and Google. On Aug. 9, RIM introduced the BlackBerry Curve 3G, which will be available in August from various carriers around the world, including T-Mobile in the United States. “The majority of people […]

With the Aug. 12 debut of BlackBerry Torch on the AT&T network, Research In Motion hopes to rekindle the ardor that American audiences once felt toward its super-secure, super-fast e-mailing smartphones – affections that have more recently been turned toward Apple’s iPhone and the astounding number of high-end handsets running Google’s Android operating system. The […]

IDC has seconded recent second-quarter smartphone sales estimates that device shipment numbers have been soaring upward, with particular momentum coming from handsets running Google’s Android mobile operating system. The overall smartphone market grew 50 percent year over year, IDC reported Aug. 5, following shipments of 63 million smartphone units during the quarter. During the first […]

Dell has added a new ultra-portable laptop to its Inspiron line, the M101z. Calling it a mix of brains and beauty, the consumer-geared PC pairs color and aesthetic flourishes with Advanced Micro Devices processors and subtle design touches meant to add additional stability to a device small enough to be thrown into, per Dell, “a […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs may not have loved the recent iSuppli report predicting that shipments of Android handsets will surpass Apple iOS handsets by 2012. However, for Eric Schmidt, CEO of Android-maker Google, business is booming no matter which operating system leads. Speaking with a group of journalists Aug. 4, following a tech conference in […]

First came the news that Apple’s iPhone 4 was the company’s most successful launch ever, with customers scooping up more than 1.7 million handsets in just three days. “Antennagate” followed, with customers complaining that when held in a certain way – the “death grip,” as it quickly became known – the iPhone 4 lost a […]

Voice-over-IP provider Vonage is giving Facebook a voice, announcing Aug. 4 the availability of an application that lets owners of iPhones, iPod Touches and Android-running smartphones place free calls to Facebook “friends.” Free to use and download-it’s available in the Android Market in 48 countries and in Apple’s iTunes store in 87 countries-the Vonage Mobile […]

Apple may be the brand that all other smartphones are compared to, but such allure doesn’t necessarily translate to market share. In the race for worldwide mobile OS market share, handsets running Google’s Android are expected to outpace those running Apple’s iOS by 2012, research firm iSuppli reported Aug. 5. While iOS shipped on 25 […]

Early reviews of Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Torch are beginning to emerge, and a general consensus is forming: As RIM and AT&T executives at the press conference introducing the device insisted, the Torch is the best BlackBerry smartphone to date. However, reviewers added, it’s not quite enough to win away consumers from the Apple iPhone […]

Smartphones from the likes of Apple, HTC and BlackBerry-maker RIM all ship with full Web browsers, and within the next five years, more than half of mobile phones of all types will follow suit, according to ABI Research. In a report Aug. 3, ABI analysts said that by 2015, more than 60 percent of mobile […]

Lenovo is launching two new ThinkCentre towers, the enterprise entry-level M70e and an A70 for “growing businesses looking for a boost in processing, memory and graphics,” the company said in a blog post. With both PC towers, Lenovo reportedly, against popular convention, sweated the small stuff, taking into account the ways that enterprise users interact […]

Apple mobile products may currently be the exclusive offerings of the AT&T network, but that hasn’t stopped Sprint-owned Clearwire from offering iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners a new connectivity option. Clearwire on Aug. 4 debuted the Clear iSpot, a personal hot spot with “dedicated support for Apple’s line of mobile devices,” the company said […]