Michelle Maisto

HTC, the world’s fourth-largest smartphone maker, shipped 3.5 million handsets in the first quarter of 2010. According to the Dow Jones Newswires, HTC expects to better that figure by 30 percent, with shipments of 4.6 million units, in the second quarter.Should it accomplish this, the figure would be a record-breaker for HTC.“Demand for HTC’s phones […]

Hewlett-Packard once again led U.S. and worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter of 2010, but it was the performance of a number of Asian OEMs that called for attention. While HP, Acer and Dell remained the top three market-share holders, Lenovo and Toshiba each posted significant growth, and Asus, for the first time, broke […]

Apple’s newly refreshed MacBook Pro laptop line has apparently proven a success.The 13-inch models – which now feature the Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics processor, the fastest currently on the market, according to Apple, and said to speed up the machine by 80 percent – have already sold out in some Apple retail stores, according to […]

Hewlett-Packard is cooperating with German and Russian authorities after news that three people who worked in a Germany office of the California-based PC manufacturer were arrested by German authorities.The arrests came as part of an investigation into “alleged kickbacks paid in connection with a contract to supply equipment to Russian law enforcement,” The New York […]

Smartphone maker HTC is considering whether to equip its phones with its own operating system, Bloomberg reported April 13.“We continue to assess, but that requires a few conditions to justify [having our own OS],” HTC CFO Cheng Hui-ming told Bloomberg.HTC is the manufacturer of several popular smartphones running the mobile Google OS, Android. Among them […]

Shipments of cell phones from the industry’s top 10 ODMs (original development manufacturers) and EMSes (electronic manufacturing services) are expected to rise 3.4 percent in 2010, up to 204.5 million units, from 2009’s 197.5 million units, market research firm iSuppli reported April 14.Despite the growth, it won’t be a year of celebrations, said analyst Jeffery […]

Palm, the struggling creator of the Pre and Pixi smartphones and their well-liked mobile platform, webOS, is looking for someone to purchase it, Reuters reported April 11. Since then, the name of just about every handset manufacturer and PC maker has been mentioned as a possible fit. What analysts seem to agree on, however, is […]

New Apple MacBook Pros Include Faster Intel, Nvidia Chips by Michelle Maisto MacBook Pro Family The Apple MacBook Pro line, which consists of 13-, 15- and 17-inch models, was refreshed April 13. Updates include longer-lasting batteries, faster Intel processors and next-generation Nvidia graphics. 13-Inch MacBook Pro The 13-inch MacBook Pro now features 10 hours of […]

Nokia launched three slim mobile handsets April 13-the C3, E5 and C6, each with a focus on messaging.“The one constant across all three devices, and now also across both Cseries and Eseries is Nokia Messaging,” Nokia officials said in their Conversations blog. “Having grown from humble beginnings, the service has evolved and matured to offer […]

Apple is updating its MacBook Pro laptop line with faster processors, next-generation Nvidia graphics and better battery life. (Congratulations to the astute Micro Center employee who predicted this April 11!)All 13-inch MacBook Pro models now offer Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 4GB of RAM, a 10-hour battery and a Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics processor-which delivers […]

New Apple iPhones are widely expected to arrive in June, and it’s no secret that an iPhone OS 4 with multitasking is in the works. Word of new Apple MacBooks, however, is something few people likely saw coming.On April 11, a Reddit user at electronics retailer Microcenter noticed four new Apple notebook SKUs in the […]

Apple iPad users will soon have a few more reading options. According to Bloomberg, Time is planning to offer iPad readers subscription services for its popular magazine titles.“It’ll probably be June before we’re able to get it up and running for subscriptions,” Time CEO Ann S. Moore told Bloomberg. “The iPad doesn’t allow me to […]