Michelle Maisto

T-Mobile now plays host to 1.6 million WiFi calls each month, the mobile carrier announced April 26. Touting itself as the first major carrier to offer WiFi calling, it plans to support WiFi calling on additional devices into 2011. “Today, T-Mobile offers WiFi on all of its BlackBerry devices. We strongly support WiFi calling and […]

Intel continued to lead a graphics market that is poised for significant growth in 2010. While the 2009 PC graphics chip market exceeded expectations, achieving 11 percent year-over-year growth, 2010 began with the expected seasonal slowdown, Jon Peddie Research reported April 26. Still, the researcher has hopes for 2010, forecasting growth of 17.3 percent, before […]

Intel continued to dominate a steady x86 processor market during the first quarter of 2010, according to data from Mercury Research.Intel held 81.2 percent of the market during the quarter, up ever so slightly from its 81.0 percent the quarter before-though more significantly from its 78.3 percent a year earlier.The 0.2 percent difference was perhaps […]

HTC, Nokia, Motorola and Research in Motion have all been named as companies that might benefit from purchasing smartphone-maker Palm, which has struggled for some time to keep a foothold in the market it initially helped create.However, an April 23 Reuters reported finds that Lenovo appears to be the most likely candidate to place a […]

ABI Research offered a snapshot of the global mobile handset industry on April 22, announcing that approximately 1.15 billion mobile handsets shipped in 2009. Smartphones and “enhanced phones,” versus simpler feature phones, accounted for 81 percent of the estimate.“In recent years the major technology and application trends in handset design have focused on 3G (and […]

Amidst all the competitive talk of 2G versus 3G versus 4G among carriers, the free WiFi connectivity offered with AT&T Wireless service contracts has been a detail seemingly dismissed with the fine print. However, with the rising use of smartphones and other connected devices – such as the Apple iPad – AT&T announced a recent […]

Should Apple, with its iPad, succeed in luring away potential Kindle e-reader customers from Amazon, the result may not sting like it once might have.On April 22, Amazon.com announced the financial results of its first quarter of 2010, and with it the news that, for the first time, it sold more beauty creams, lawn movers, […]

AT&T executives had good news for Apple iPhone customers – particularly those in New York – during the carrier’s first-quarter earnings call April 21.Pointing out that a key to driving wireless growth is a great data network, AT&T CFO Richard Lindner noted that, with AT&T’s January update to HSPA 7.2 software, and its backhaul deployment […]

Verizon Wireless announced revenues of $26.9 billion for its first quarter of 2010, on April 22. The carrier’s net income, however, was about $400 million – compared to $1.6 billion a year earlier – due to do the closure of a tax exemption related to retiree health care, which forced Verizon to front a payment […]

HP Desktops, All-in-One PCs Mix AMD, Intel Chips by Michelle Maisto HP Compaq 6005 Pro USDT (Ultra Slim Desktop) HP made significant efforts to slim down its desktop line, and the result is the Compaq 6005 Pro Ultra Slim, which can be mounted behind a display, on a wall or under a desk. HP Compaq […]

If Apple-related rumors were bad news for Samsung at the start of the week, for chip designer ARM Holdings they worked to drive stock prices up.Rumors that Apple may be considering purchasing ARM-which currently makes chips for the Apple iPhone-drove ARM stock to an eight-year high, the Guardian reported April 22.Responding to the rumors, ARM […]

AT&T reported consolidated revenues of $30.6 billion April 21 for its first quarter of 2010, representing a growth of 0.3 percent, or $78 million, from a year earlier. The carrier additionally added 1.9 million wireless subscribers-the highest first-quarter total in its history-for a total of 87 million subscribers. (Competitor Verizon Wireless, which will report its […]