Michelle Maisto

Nokia introduced a new phone – the C5, which it describes as a smartphone in a feature phone body – and a new phone-naming convention on March 2.The C5 runs the S60 3rd Edition OS and features a 2.2-inch display, a 3.2-megapixel camera and an evolved phone book, which ties friends to their Facebook status […]

Mean and green may be the best way to describe two new PC offerings from Dell, which is unveiling the OptiPlex 980 desktop – which the PC maker is calling the most powerful and energy efficient commercial desktop it has ever offered – and the Dell FX100 zero client solution, a fan-less, driver-less, OS-free computing […]

Nuance is introducing a suite of Dragon Medical Mobile solutions for the health care industry March 1. Building on solutions Nuance currently offers for Apple’s iPhone, the solutions are slated to arrive “in the spring.”Nuance’s Dragon Medical Mobile Dictation application, based on its speech-recognition technology, will enable health care workers to dictate patient notes, e-mails […]

The Associated Press and Conde Nast are among the latest content publishers looking to take advantage of the growing number of e-reader devices on the market, including Apple’s iPad. AP is creating a business unit called AP Gateway to help it, along with newscasters and broadcasters, sell digital content to readers using Web-connected mobile devices.AP […]

Mobile solutions powered by high-speed networks will continue to help the health care industry improve the treatment of patients and drive down costs, Sprint Nextel CEO Dan Hesse said in his keynote address at the annual conference of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society March 1.“Today, on a planet of 6.8 billion people, there […]

Apple has not only bested analyst expectations in recent quarters-most recently setting new records for iPhone and Mac sales-but has additionally been growing quite a cash pile, ranging from $25 billion in some reports to as much as $40 billion in others.At the company’s annual investors meeting Feb. 25, Apple CEO Steve Jobs told shareholders […]

3M Health Information Systems is releasing a 3M Mobile Dictation Software for the iPhone platform.The mobile application, announced Feb. 25, enables physicians to dictate notes, view patient lists and view patient information on their mobile device, using WiFi or a 3G connection.Currently available on BlackBerry and Windows Mobile platforms, the new software will extend the […]

Sprint has confirmed that Palm Pre and Pixi devices will receive an update to WebOS 1.4 on Feb. 26, according to Engadget-which later reported that the Sprint blog post confirming the update had been removed.The update has been expected for February, however, so time is running out.Both Engadget and PreCentral.net report getting hold of the […]

Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein reportedly sent out a memo to all company employees, after warning Wall Street Feb. 25 that Palm’s fiscal 2010 third quarter wasn’t going to meet expectations.Rubinstein blamed the revenue disappointment on slower-than-expected sales, which have led carrier partners to put new orders on hold. Additionally, he said employees should be “laser-focused” […]

Apple users have been said to be a breed apart, but a Feb. 25 report from AdMob reveals that the behavior of Apple iPhone and Google Android platform users is “remarkably similar” when it comes to mobile applications.AdMob conducted opt-in surveys with consumers using devices that run the iPhone, iPod touch, Android and webOS platforms […]

The first LG smartphone running Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 Series may arrive as early as September, according to a report from Engadget.Reportedly, members of its sister site, Engadget Chinese, had a sitdown with LG executives in Hong Kong who indicated that the date likely wouldn’t be as late as “the holiday season” as Microsoft CEO […]

One lucky Apple iTunes customer – and Johnny Cash fan – has $10,000 worth of songs in his future. Apple announced Feb. 25 that Louie Sulcer, of Woodstock, Ga., was the winner of its iTunes Countdown to 10 Billion Songs contest, as his purchase of Johnny Cash’s “Guess Things Happen That Way” was the 10 […]