Michelle Maisto

Hewlett-Packard introduced more than a dozen new products on Sept. 15, offering something for enterprises, as well as on-the-go consumers and device-heavy households.On the enterprise front, HP introduced the ProBook 5310m, which it calls the world’s thinnest standard-voltage full-performance notebook. (The Apple MacBook Air, which is 0.76 inches at its thickest point, HP points out […]

The PC market, while not yet in full recovery mode, took “one small step away from the abyss” in the second quarter of 2009, according to a Sept. 11 report from market research firm iSuppli.The second quarter saw global shipments of 67.2 million units. While down 4.3 percent from the 70.2 million units that shipped […]

Just as power suits transitioned away from dark, dull and boxy, with the growing influence of women in the workplace, so too are laptops slimming down, lightening up and being designed with a more stylish clientele in mind. This trend was in evidence on Sept. 12, when fashion icon Vivienne Tam sent her models walking […]

AT&T has been the exclusive U.S. carrier of the iPhone since it first debuted in June 2007.When AT&T’s contract expires in 2010, many have speculated that Verizon will raise its hand for a CDMA version of the device. A new report from iSuppli, however, suggests that Apple may actually renew its contract and remain exclusively […]

The arrival of Apple’s iPhone in China is poised to accelerate the worldwide smartphone market, according to a Sept. 10 report from researcher iSuppli. iSuppli expects worldwide factory shipments of smartphones to rise to 235.6 million units in 2010 – a growth of 27.9 percent from 2009’s 184.2 million units. By 2011, shipments are expected […]

Motorola Cliq Joins Google Android Smartphone Club No Title Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha and T-Mobile Chief Technology and Innovation Officer Cole Brodman introduced the Cliq smartphone at the GigaOM Mobilize Conference in San Francisco on Sept. 10. It will be exclusive to the T-Mobile network and arrive this fall. No Title The Cliq measures 4.49 […]

Shopping for a PC tends to boil down to price points, instead of the features and speeds that consumers get for their money. Advanced Micro Devices is looking to change that by rolling out a program that translates its long lists of gigabytes, processor names and gigahertz speeds into, more simply, umbrella ideas of the […]

Motorola did indeed have some exciting Android-related news to share at its San Francisco event on Sept. 10. The company introduced the Cliq, an Android-running slider smartphone that will be exclusive to the T-Mobile network, as well as MotoBlur, a syncing solution that will debut on the Cliq.MotoBlur can sync contacts, social messaging posts and […]

During Dell’s Aug. 27 earnings call, chief financial officer Brian Gladden fielded several questions about the mobile phone prototype Dell had delivered to China Mobile before finally remarking that he didn’t much care to dwell on the phone. “From our standpoint, we’re spending an awful lot more energy on the enterprise side of our business […]

The day after Labor Day used to include fresh three-ring binders and sharpened pencils, but Verizon’s Sept. 8 offerings are far more modern: the Samsung Rogue and Intensity slider phones.Both are messaging phones, though the Rogue-a dead ringer for the Samsung Impression on the AT&T network-is the more robust of the two. It offers a […]

Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom announced that they’ll be combining their respective properties – T-Mobile U.K. and Orange U.K. – into a fifty-fifty venture that will create the United Kingdom’s leading mobile operator.The combined mobile subscriber base of the Orange and T-Mobile venture will be approximately 28.4 million strong and represent approximately 37 percent of […]

Palm has reportedly leaked an early edition of an update to the operating system run by the Palm Pre. According to reports by Pre users who say they’ve received the update, called webOS 1.2., there are two particularly interesting changes. One likely change is that LEDs built into the Pre will now notify users of […]