Michelle Maisto

Bluetooth 3 and 4, app stores, mobile widgets, and touch screens are among 10 mobile technologies that savvy organizations should expect to feel the impacts of through 2011, according to a March report from Gartner Research.Released in advance of the Gartner Wireless, Networking & Communications Summit, beginning in San Diego April 19, the report highlights […]

The Apple iPad has yet to launch, but that hasn’t stopped developers and media companies from working on applications for the tablet, which will go on sale April 3.To ease the development of applications for a not-yet-existent device, Apple has given iPads, along with explicit directions for discretion, to a handful of companies, including the […]

The Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus will arrive on the AT&T network in “the coming months,” Palm announced March 22. AT&T also said that it will soon be selling Dell’s Android-based Aero, the computer maker’s first smartphone available in the United States.The move with Palm makes AT&T the latest carrier to offer a […]

Apple is still hustling to tie up loose ends in preparation for the iPad’s April 3 arrival. To start, there’s still viewable content to secure. While The Associated Press and publishing giant Conde Nast will each be offering content for the iPad, Apple is reportedly still negotiating to sign additional media companies on board, according […]

Desktops are making a comeback.After nearly 10 rocky years of losing sales to mobile PCs, the retail desktop market is soaring, according to a March 18 report from NPD Group.In February, sales of desktop units increased 30 percent, while dollars year-over-year increased by 33 percent, states the report. February additionally marked the third time in […]

Palm’s poor third-quarter performance may be the result of bad choices, paired with the difficulty of rallying support behind a new mobile platform. While an aggressive ad campaign could help, it can’t be the only answer to Palm’s woes, industry analysts say.On March 18, the maker of the Pre and Pixi mobile devices reported selling […]

Electronics are a top priority even for cash-strapped consumers, beating out other desirables when money becomes tight, according to a March 18 report from iSuppli.While 2009 worldwide per capita income declined by 2 percent – the first ever annual decrease in the post-World War II era – revenue for the global electronics market nonetheless rose. […]

Amazon added a few bricks to its Kindle kingdom on March 18, with the introduction of Kindle for Mac, a free application that lets readers pull up Kindle books on a Mac computer.“Kindle for Mac is the prefect companion application for customers who own a Kindle or Kindle DX,” Jay Marine, director of Amazon Kindle, […]

Sprint, with self-service provider Telespree, introduced Mobile Broadband on Demand on March 18, a prepaid way to offer mobile broadband services to Sprint Wholesale partners – who can then pass the service, branded however they’d like it, to their customers.Mobile Broadband on Demand is offered as a standalone product or packaged with back-office services, and […]

The Apple versus HTC lawsuit took a small step forward on March 17, with HTCreleasing a public response to Apple’s allegations that HTC smartphones infringe on patents related to the iPhone’s interface, architecture and hardware.“HTC disagrees with Apple’s actions and will fully defend itself,” HTC CEO Peter Chou said in a statement. “HTC strongly advocates […]

Googlehas anew version of the Nexus One, and unlike the original version-which was optimized for the T-Mobile network-the new Nexus One is compatible with AT&T’s 3G network in the United States and Rogers Wireless in Canada.(The previous version, which was unlocked, could only access AT&T’s 2G, or EDGE, network-which was a sticking point in the […]

Mobile application downloads will increase from more than 7 billion in 2009 to nearly 50 billion by 2012, while revenue from the mobile app market will rocket from 2009’s $4.1 billion to an expected $17.5 billion by 2012. These are among the predictions of a March 17 research study from Chetan Sharma Consulting that looked […]