Michelle Maisto

New York and San Francisco aren’t the only cities filled with bandwidth-devouring iPhone users, according to the Financial Times. On Dec. 29, Ronan Dunne, head of mobile carrier O2, apologized to customers for service issues-such as not being able to place calls-that were caused by enormous demand for data services in England’s capital. “Where we […]

Palm has introduced an update to its WebOS, the platform run by the Palm Pre and the Palm Pixi, both of which, in the United States, are exclusive to the Sprint Nextel network. With WebOS 1.3.5, available as of Dec. 28, Palm offers updates, improvements and a housecleaning of what were likely irritating, early snafus. […]

Tech specifications for the netbook that Google is rumored to be creating have been “leaked,” according to England’s IBTimes. The netbook, which various reports say will arrive in time for the 2010 holiday season, will reportedly run Google’s Chrome OS and feature a 10.1-inch, high-definition multitouch display, an ARM processor-said to offer better performance and […]

The Apple iPhone is now available again for online sale in the New York area. According to several reports, potential purchasers in New York and northern New Jersey were told during the weekend of Dec. 26 that, “New York is not ready for the iPhone,” essentially due to AT&T’s inability to offer adequate coverage in […]

Amazon.com expressed its thanks to its customers on Dec. 26, saying that they’d made its Kindle e-reader the most gifted item in the online retailers’ history.Additionally, Amazon announced that on Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more e-books than physical books.“We are grateful to our customers for making Kindle the most gifted […]

The Apple iPhone 3G is the most-used mobile phone in the United States, according to Dec. 21 data published on the blog of the Nielsen Company, which specializes in marketing and media information. Nielsen shows the “Apple 3G iPhone,” by which it presumably means the iPhone 3G, to own 4 percent of the “embedded base […]

Research In Motion BlackBerry handsets experienced e-mail and Internet outages on the evening of Dec. 22 and into the early morning hours the following day. It was RIM’s second major service failure in a week. CNN reported that the outage lasted more than 8 hours, and RIM in an e-mail to customers estimated that at […]

When 2009 is said and done, notebook PC revenues are likely to reach $109 billion – a figure down approximately 7 percent year-over-year, according to DisplaySearch, but one with netbooks to thank. In a Dec. 22 report, the firm showed that 2009 was an excellent year for netbooks, sales of which grew 103 percent from […]

Apple released a firmware update on Dec. 21, in response to complaints that the displays on some of its 27-inch iMac desktops were flickering. The update applies to graphics firmware on ATI Radeon HD 4670 and 4850 graphics cards. Apple introduced the 27-inch iMacs on Oct. 20, offering a model with either a 3.33GHz Intel […]

Sony confirmed Dec. 22 that its Sony Reader Daily Edition will arrive in time for Christmas morning. Consumers who pre-ordered on SonyStyle.com through Dec. 20 should begin receiving their e-readers “within the next 48 hours, in time for the holidays,” the company confirmed.“We’re thrilled to fulfill initial orders of the Sony Reader Daily Edition for […]

Mobile device shipments are expected to nearly double by the end of 2014, according to a Dec. 21 report from ABI Research. Such growth, however, will increase competition and lead to a need for devices to better set themselves apart, said the firm.In 2009, a total of 1.2 billion mobile devices with wireless capabilities – […]

Dell announced Dec. 21 that it’s updating its Inspiron Mini 10 netbook with a new look, longer battery life, tech enhancements, connectivity capabilities and lots of options. The updated Mini 10 will arrive in stores the first half of January 2010.The original Mini 10, which started at $399 – though in November Sprint began offering […]