Michelle Maisto

Motorola smartphones and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry devices were the most popular handsets among U.S. mobile subscribers from November 2009 through Feb. 10, 2010, according to a new report from comScore.The April 5 report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), smartphone platforms and the mobile activities conducted by U.S. subscribers age 13 years […]

New York Stock Exchange brokers are back to work, according to a 10 a.m. report from Reuters.Earlier on the morning of April 6, the news organization reported that brokers on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and NYSE Amex cash equities markets were “unable to log in to handheld devices,” Reuters reported. “Customers […]

Apple saw brisk iPad sales during the tablet’s opening weekend, with more than 300,000 iPads, including preordered units, selling on April 3. That same day, however, complaints of fluctuating WiFi signals began to accumulate on the Apple Support discussion board.“My signal keeps fluctuating from strong to weak, while my MacBook and iPhone show a consistent […]

Within hours of the Apple iPad’s April 3 arrival, RapidRepair CEO Aaron Vronko and his team were tearing one down to take a closer look at the lesser-known features that Apple has included behind all that glimmer and glass.“There were a few surprises in both the inclusions and exclusions,” Vronko told eWEEK.One interesting bit, he […]

Apple iPad: A Look from the Inside Out by Michelle Maisto The Apple iPad The iPad in all its 0.5-inch-thick, 1.5-pound glory. The multitouch, 9.7-inch LED backlit widescreen display features an oleophobic coating thats said to resist fingerprints. Step One Opening the iPad begins with a tool called a spudger, which will likely break some […]

iSuppli expects Apple to see sales of 7.1 million iPads in 2010, the research company reported April 2, calling its estimate conservative.By 2011-with new applications and a lower price expected-sales figures should more than double to 14.4 million and nearly triple by 2012, to sales of 20.1 million units.Driving these expectations, iSuppli wrote, are the […]

In advance of the iPad’s April 3 debut, Apple is showing off a number of Websites that are “iPad ready”-which is to say, instead of Flash technology, they’re built with W3C standard Web technology and use HTML5 video, CSS3 and JavaScript.To play with Apple is to play by Apple’s rules, and several big brands have […]

The Palm Blog has rounded up a number of deals on Palm’s newest smartphones, the Pre Plus and Pixi Plus.Anyone who’s had an eye on a new smartphone, or on the Palm phones in particular, could hardly do better than the deal Verizon Wireless is offering right now: the Pre Plus for $49.99 or the […]

Electronics maker Sharp plans to make three-dimensional displays for cell phones and other mobile devices, the company announced at a press conference on April 2. The displays would not require the use of special 3D-viewing glasses.Sharp tried its hand at a mobile phone with a 3D display in 2003, but picture brightness and resolution were […]

Acer has introduced the Aspire Ethos 5943G and 8943G laptops, and with them a new take on touch screens.The Ethos laptops, unveiled March 31, include a second touch screen-a smaller one replacing the touchpad-that displays icons for easier navigation of multimedia apps.“The media console is now combined with the touchpad, providing a set of commands […]

Is the Apple iPad going to replace your laptop?It depends on who you are and how you use your laptop-that’s the nutshell verdict from The New York Times‘ David Pogue and the Wall Street Journal‘s Walter S. Mossberg, whose separate reviews of the iPad went live March 31.“I believe this beautiful new touch-screen device from […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion turned in another strong quarter on March 31, announcing revenue of $4.08 billion for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2010, which was a boost of 4 percent from the previous quarter. RIM closed the fiscal year on Feb. 27 with revenue of $14.95 billion-up 35 percent from a […]