Michelle Maisto

The HTC Evo 4G smartphone was in many ways a blessing for Sprint during its second quarter, proving to be a very popular device and mitigating the impact of Apple’s release of the iPhone 4 during the same period. However, that popularity, along with market factors, has led to a shortage of HTC Evo 4Gs […]

Research In Motion continues to work to build excitement for BlackBerry 6, the newest version of its operating system, slated to debut in the third quarter. Slicker than its predecessor, BlackBerry 6 is part of RIM’s plan to more effectively compete against the Apple iPhone and the growing number of high-powered smartphones running Google’s Android […]

The Federal Communications Commission is launching a Consumer Help Center Website, where consumers can get the latest information about telecommunications issues raised before the FCC, seek tips before making communications purchases, express their opinions and file complaints. “Our new Consumer Help Center makes it easy for consumers to learn about our work and take action,” […]

AT&T has deployed a WiFi hot zone in Charlotte, N.C.-the second location in a pilot project designed to gain consumer feedback about the use of WiFi to supplement the carrier’s 3G mobile broadband network. The first hot zone in the pilot went live in New York City’s Time Square in June, and the third will […]

Taiwan-based HTC will begin selling smartphones in China under its own name, as it begins a big campaign to create a brand presence, the Wall Street Journal reported July 27. Until now, HTC has sold phones in China under the Dopod brand, but that will change with four new devices scheduled to arrive in September […]

Graphics chip maker Nvidia infringed on three patents held by Rambus, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission, which July 26 ruled that certain products containing the Nvidia chips may not be imported. The ITC ruling pertains to Nvidia’s GeForce, Quadro, nForce, Tesla and Tegra chips, which are used by customers such as Hewlett-Packard, Asustek […]

The Apple iPad is at the front of a changing mobile device market, affecting PC sales and consumer purchases, research firm Canalys announced in a July 26 report. According to Canalys figures, Apple is now among the top-five PC vendors worldwide, following the iPad’s capture of approximately 6 percent of the portable PC segment during […]

CTIA is suing the city and county of San Francisco in hopes of blocking the enforcement of the Cell Phone Right-to-Know ordinance that the city’s Board of Supervisors recently passed. The ordinance requires cell phone retailers to display, in a manner and place noticeable to shoppers, the amount of radiation emitted by each phone being […]

Hewlett-Packard will exclusively run Palm’s WebOS software on its anticipated smartphone line, HP Executive Vice President Todd Bradley told CNBC. The July 23 announcement means that while HP, the world’s top PC maker, may be Microsoft’s biggest customer, it will be passing up Microsoft’s newest mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, which is scheduled to […]

HTC’s Sense user interface will be available on smartphones running Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Phone 7 operating system, despite the OS exerting greater control over devices than its predecessors, according to a report in Forbes. Drew Bamford, head of HTC’s user experience design team, told Forbes in a July 22 report that the Taiwan-based phone maker […]

Turns out the rumor mill did rather good work of parsing together Hewlett-Packard’s tablet plans. Still, Todd Bradley, executive vice president of HP’s personal system group, and Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm, now reporting to Bradley, offered confirmation of the company’s intentions at the 2010 Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference July 22. “I think […]

Verizon Wireless lost $198 million in the second quarter, due largely to several one-time issues, officials said, but the company is continuing to add wireless customers as it expands its family of Android-based Droid smartphones. Verizon officials also announced July 23 that the company generated $26.8 billion in revenue during the quarter. The one-time factors […]