Michelle Maisto

iPass, a company that knits together the world’s WiFi networks to offer the traveling employees of large corporations reliable, ever-present access to speedy connections, has figured out a way to make its offering still simpler—by putting it in the cloud. With Business Traveler Service 2.0, iPass says it’s transforming into a cloud-based company, coupling its […]

Verizon Chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam, a man not known for mincing words, sat down with JP Morgan analyst Phil Cusick at the investment firm’s Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference May 20. Below are nine key takeaways from their conversation. 1. Verizon isn’t planning to buy Dish Networks. “We just did a $130 billion […]

There are two major stories in the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), released May 20. The first is that smartphone owners have for the first time given Samsung a higher satisfaction rating than Apple. The second, particularly notable as the number of merger proposals in the federal government’s inbox increases, is that customer satisfaction […]

The impending death of BlackBerry is a topic people speak to casually. At a recent enterprise tablet conference in New York, a panelist who pointed out halfway through the event that the name BlackBerry hadn’t yet been spoken and added, “Are those guys still around?” brought up a laugh from the audience. While cuts and […]

T-Mobile has said that when it comes to selling tablets it’s just getting started, and May 19 it showed off more of its plan to get consumers buying 4G LTE-enabled units. At Walmart stores, T-Mobile is now selling a 4G-enabled tablet (with another to come) that addresses part of the reason consumers have historically stuck […]

BlackBerry, a company in desperate need of a smartphone win, says its newest device sold out on the first day of its, albeit limited, launch. The BlackBerry Z3, code-named “Jakarta,” was designed specifically for Indonesia, a developing market but a BlackBerry stronghold. It’s the first smartphone BlackBerry has released since John Chen became CEO in […]

AT&T Offers Sneak Peek at a Connected Future by Michelle Maisto EyeDecrypt EyeDecrypt enables users to view personal or confidential information—digital or printed—in public places. It also offers simply a more secure way of ensuring that only intended recipients have access to information. The technology uses a mobile device’s camera as an eye through which […]

AT&T and DirecTV, as part of a “unique” and perfect pairing, will be able to do together what no two other companies could, executives from both companies repeated Monday, May 19, during a press call to discuss the merger they announced via a press release the day before. Together, the companies will have a tremendous […]

AT&T has announced plans to purchase satellite-TV provider DirecTV for $48.5 billion. Following rumors that such a deal was in the works, AT&T announced Sunday, May 18, that it had reached a deal to acquire DirecTV for $95 per share, based on AT&T’s Friday closing price. The deal has been approved by the boards of […]

AT&T hosted its annual Innovation Showcase May 16, shining a spotlight on ideas that might someday be powered by its fast-growing and evolving network. “I don’t know of any industry where change is happening at such a rapid pace,” said Marian Croak, an engineer and developer with more than 156 patents to her name and […]

Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Education Aims to Aid Teaching, Learning by Michelle Maisto Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Education The Galaxy Tab 4 Education is Samsung’s first tablet designed for K-12 classrooms. Samsung’s Langan says there’s a trend to give out a tablet to each student and have them be responsible for it for the year. […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has shared the rules on which it plans to run its first-of-a-kind incentive auction that will enable television broadcasters to sell their highly-valued wireless spectrum to wireless carriers that eagerly want to buy it. The rules will serve as a basis on which the FCC will develop and seek additional […]