Michelle Maisto

The Dell Latitude Z600, which went on sale Sept. 29, offers a feature sure to please users, and that may get it talked about, but that overall isn’t a game-changer, asserts an Oct. 1 report from researcher iSuppli.The Z600 features Latitude-On, which offers quick access to Web-based e-mail, contacts, calendars and other Internet content and […]

Never have mobile operating systems so roused the appetite. Google announced Sept. 15 that the SDK for Android 1.6, the newest version of its open-source mobile operating system, known as “Donut,” is now available for download.(Version 1.5 was known as “Cupcake,” and future versions are reportedly code-named ??½clair and Flan.) While many of the details […]

AdMob, which measures handset use rather than sales, by analyzing data from ad requests, impressions and clicks, served up its August smartphone OS data in a Sept. 30 report that points out both expected and noteworthy findings.The Apple iPhone OS’ share of the smartphone operating system worldwide market grew from 33 percent in February to […]

Don’t shed any tears for Windows Mobile, is the message of an Oct. 1 study from iSuppli. Though Palm recently announced it would discontinue using the Windows Mobile operating system on its smartphones, in favor of focusing on its own OS, webOS, and Motorola has been less of a help, with the “company’s shipments and […]

Lenovo’s Lost & Found service might more accurately be thought of as “return or find.” The free service, announced Oct. 1 and available later this month, is a complement to Lenovo’s paid, subscription-based service, both of which are focused on retrieving lost or stolen devices. Lost & Found is for the Good Samaritans among us […]

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the economic impact of a BlackBerry solution-that is, BlackBerry smartphones paired with BlackBerry Enterprise Server-within an enterprise. The results, published in September as “Economic Impact of a BlackBerry Solution in North American Enterprises,” are particularly good news for enterprises with employees in sales, field services […]

Customer satisfaction with smartphones and with the mobile carriers that support them are very separate sentiments, concludes a Sept. 30 study from CFI Group. Nowhere was the discrepancy found to be greater than between the iPhone and its exclusive operator, AT&T. In ranking customer satisfaction, CFI-like J.D. Power and Associates-found the iPhone to rate higher […]

TerreStar Networks, a company currently developing a satellite terrestrial mobile broadband network, announced Sept. 30 that it has entered into an agreement with AT&T “to bring to market the first fully integrated satellite cellular smartphone.”Called the TerreStar Genus, the dual-mode smartphone, which resembles a BlackBerry Curve, will run on the Windows Mobile operating system and […]

BlackBerry users just got a few clicks closer to their favorite shows. Just in time for fall’s new television lineup is the TiVo for BlackBerry app, a free offering from Research In Motion’s BlackBerry App World storefront that lets TiVo users program their digital video recorder directly from their BlackBerry smartphones.According to Inside BlackBerry, the […]

Ericsson has introduced a new mobile broadband module, its fourth in 12 months. While the last, introduced, in June, put the focus on netbooks, this new module, the C3706w, looks to bring embedded, high-speed wireless connectivity to consumer electronics (CE) such as GPS navigators, e-book readers and media players. The CE module is one-third the […]

California-based American Industrial Systems has introduced two new models to its line of rugged touch-screen computers, or Rugged Panel PCs, which are designed for the challenges of outdoor use. The PCs are available in 8.4- and 10.4-inch designs, and with either an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor or an Intel Core 2 Duo. AIS offers […]

The iPhone OS 3.1, introduced during Apple’s recent San Francisco event, delivered new features aimed at pleasing both business users as well as consumers. But the new smartphone operating system brought along a few new glitches along with it. The new version was supposed to provide a better iTunes experience, a smoother synchronization between Voice […]