Michelle Maisto

More Americans than ever before are now wirelessly online, the Pew Internet & American Life Project revealed in a July report. The study found 47 percent of all adults now using a laptop, with a WiFi connection or PC card, to go online wirelessly-up from 39 percent in April 2009 – and 40 percent (up […]

iPhone 4 owners and other AT&T customers who’ve recently experienced a debilitating slowdown in data speeds have Alcatel-Lucent to blame, the carrier indicated in a July 7 statement. According to AT&T, a software problem in some equipment made by Alcatel-Lucent is stunting the performance of devices on AT&T’s 3G HSUPA (High-Speed Uplink Packet Access) network. […]

Opera Software has announced the availability of Mini 5.1, an update to its Mini 5 phone browser. Ever received an out-of-memory notification? Then this update may be for you. It’s said to improve the overall browsing experience on mobile phones with limited memory, optimizing the browser skin so that more pages can be viewed at […]

Sprint’s HTC Evo 4G too rich for your blood? On July 11, Sprint will be adding a $100 option to its lineup of Android smartphones with the debut of the Samsung Intercept. The Intercept features a 3.2-inch touch-screen display, a slideout QWERTY keypad, the additional navigation option of an optical joystick, 3G, WiFi and Stereo […]

Samsung jumped over both Apple and Sony in the worldwide mobile PC vendor rankings in the first quarter, thanks to netbook sales and the growing preference among both consumers and corporations for mobile PCs over desktops, according to market research firm iSuppli.With shipments of 1.9 million mobile PCs – a jump of 14.6 percent from […]

Strong Android sales have enabled smartphone manufacturer HTC to log another successful quarter, solidifying its standing as a major contender in the mobile device market. The company on July 6 announced profits of $268 million for the second quarter of 2010, according to the Wall Street Journal. The figure represented HTC’s highest profits since 2007, […]

Gateway introduced the LT32 series of netbooks July 7. Featuring an 11.6-inch HD LED-backlit display, the series offers a little more view than the 10.1-inch LT23 Series that the PC maker debuted just a few weeks ago. The LT32 is less than an inch thick and weighs 2.76 pounds. Gateway has paired its nearly 12-inch […]

Motorola introduced the Charm July 7, its third smartphone for T-Mobile to run Google’s Android mobile operating system. Arriving this summer, the Charm is a bit iPhone 4 meets Palm Pixi meets Motorola Flipout, with rounded edges, a slim physique and a 2.8-inch QVGA touch-screen display – reportedly Gorilla Glass, like the iPhone 4’s display […]

Smartphone-maker LG Electronics is planning to release a tablet running Google’s Android operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported July 6. While LG in June showed off a tablet prototype running Microsoft’s Window 7, at the Computex 2010 show in Taiwan, it’s not an enormous stretch that the company should also be at work on […]

Hewlett Packard, the new owner of smartphone-maker Palm, is already working to get its newest assets off of storage-room shelves and into the hands of consumers. On its Website, HP is now offering the Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus for free with the activation of a service contract with AT&T or Verizon Wireless.AT&T is […]

Hewlett-Packard, following the completion of its acquisition of smartphone-maker Palm, has reportedly laid off a number of Palm staffers, according to the tech site All Things D. Citing “sources (once) close to the company,” John Paczkowski writes that the cuts are in the “double digits, not hundreds,” and that an HP spokesperson told him: “Part […]

While the iPhone 4 has been a success with critics and consumers-call reception issues aside-Apple’s newest smartphone may pose the same problems for mobile carriers that earlier iPhone models have, Strand Consult said in a July 5 report.The Copenhagen-based research company-following up on an August 2009 report on how the iPhone affected carriers-warned that the […]