Michelle Maisto

Top Problems Plaguing the Five Most Popular Smartwatches by Michelle Maisto Top Issues With the Martian Passport The award-winning Martian Passport is the most watch-looking of the smartwatches and was an early industry favorite. But users aren’t without gripes. The top two issues with the Passport, each named by 25 percent of survey participants, are […]

Apple emailed iPhone 4S users May 8 to tell them, “It’s a beautiful time for an upgrade.” Users who “step up” to an iPhone 5S or 5C could receive a $199 credit when they “recycle” their current iPhone, Apple explained. Customers can also recycle their old iPhones by mailing them in, in exchange for an […]

While a majority of enterprises have moved away from full BlackBerry handset deployments and now support a variety of platforms, they may be wise to allow BlackBerry to keep supporting all of their devices, a new study commissioned by the company suggests. BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES10) is the most cost-effective enterprise mobility management (EMM) […]

By June, AT&T business users may begin taking advantage of the User-Defined Network Cloud the company introduced in February, giving a formal name to what it’s calling its “network of the future.” Marian Croak, AT&T’s senior vice president for Domain 2.0 Architecture and Advanced Services Development, said AT&T is in the first year of a […]

Business Tablets Address Security, User Preferences by Michelle Maisto Intel Focusing on Android While Android is the leading smartphone OS, security concerns have made it a less popular tablet option among IT decision makers. Hector Llorens, platform manager for business tablets at Intel, said the company is “about choice” and has been focusing on making […]

Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Ebay, Twitter and Microsoft are among 149 Internet-based companies that signed a May 7 letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler, expressing their support for a “free and open Internet” and their concern over upcoming changes to the rules that govern the World Wide Web. The online innovations of the […]

Smartphone users are increasingly turning to mobile apps for the information they want—in 2013, 80 percent of the time users spent on their smartphones was in apps, according to Super Monitoring. Software maker Opera, in tune to this preference, has created a mobile browser that’s unlike anything from Google or Microsoft, as it presents Websites […]

AT&T’s April announcement that it has eyes on 100 candidate cities and municipalities where it would like to expand its fiber network that’s capable of 1 Gbps speeds brought out a few calls of “astroturfing”—the practice of masking the moneyed or influential backers of an effort while pretending grassroots support is driving it. DSL Reports, […]

Amazon has introduced #AmazonCart, a Twitter-entwined solution that makes it still simpler for consumers to make purchases from its site, while potentially also lassoing in fleetingly desired items that otherwise may be forgotten. AmazonCart is connected to a user’s Twitter account and lets users put millions of Amazon-sold items into their Amazon shopping carts without […]

Nokia, no longer a smartphone maker, has created a $100 million Connected Car fund that will identify and invest in innovations that will be “important for a world of connected and intelligent vehicles,” the company said in a May 5 statement. The fund will be managed by Nokia Growth Partners (NGP) and will closely align […]

Consumer health and fitness features are expected to be a new area of focus for Samsung and Apple, as each works to find a foothold it can use to advance itself past the other. But it’s the health of the workers producing the components for these rivals’ devices that’s begun to gain some attention. Samsung […]

Snapchat, in keeping with the great tradition of social-networking applications, continues expanding its capabilities. The app that initially gave users the ability to share silly photos that would automatically be deleted, has expanded into chat. Those chats are, of course, also quickly deleted. Snapchat told users in a May 1 blog post that one lesson […]