Michelle Maisto

Nokia has pulled the sheet off its newest touch-screen phone, scheduled to arrive in the fourth quarter: the Nokia 5230.The 5230 might be viewed as the more affordable sibling of the 5800 XpressMusic-which was said to be Nokia’s iPhone challenger before the flagship N97 came along.The 5230 synchronizes with Windows Media Player 11, the Nokia […]

Is Apple’s new fast and light Snow Leopard looking pretty good? Did Justin Long have you at “Hello, I’m a Mac”? If so, software maker Parallels now offers Desktop Switch to Mac Edition software for consumers wanting to transition from a PC to a Mac.The software, which the user installs on both computers and then […]

Read all about it: Sony has introduced the Reader Daily Edition, its third new e-book reader but its first to match Amazon.com’s Kindle in offering wireless 3G connectivity. While the different versions of the Kindle operate over the Sprint network, Sony’s Reader Daily Edition can wirelessly access Sony’s eBook Store via the AT&T network.Sony’s e-book […]

Dell will announce its second-quarter results for fiscal year 2010 after the markets close on Aug. 27, and equity research firm Broadpoint AmTech is optimistic about the message it will have for investors. Broadpoint analyst Dinesh Moorjani released a research note on Aug. 24, upgrading Dell’s stock for the second time this year.“We are now […]

Apple’s much anticipated Mac OS X v10.6, also known as Snow Leopard, is now available for pre-order at Apple’s online store and will go sale Friday, Aug. 28, Apple announced on Aug. 24.Mac OS X Leopard users will be able to upgrade to Snow Leopard for $29. In addition, anyone who purchased a new Mac […]

If PC maker Dell can grow its domain to include smartphones, then it shouldn’t be too surprising that phone maker Nokia is ready to dabble in PCs.The world’s leading cellphone maker announced on Aug. 24 that it will be entering the challenging PC market with the introduction of the Nokia Booklet 3G, a sort of […]

Come Sept. 6, all AT&T subscribers who activate a new smartphone or upgrade to one will also have to purchase a data plan, according to the Boy Genius Report, which says it acquired an internal AT&T e-mail describing the change.Existing smartphone customers will be exempt from the requirement, states the quoted e-mail.Why the change?“A predictable […]

The global market for e-paper displays, such as those used by the Amazon Kindle line of e-book readers as well as those from Sony, will grow 124 percent from 2008 through 2013 and in that time exceed $2.5 billion, according to an Aug. 20 study from NextGen Research.The study’s author, James Belcher, says “electronic ink” […]

Smartphone sales are on the rise, but “feature phones” still constitute the majority of all handset sales, according to new data from The NPD Group.In an Aug. 19 statement, the market researcher reported that unit sales of feature phones fell 5 by percent in the second quarter of 2009, to represent 72 percent of the […]

Retrevo, a product search engine, says it polled more than 300 of its 4 million monthly visitors and found that the “majority of student laptop shoppers will not consider buying a Mac,” the company reported in an Aug. 18 statement.According to Retrevo, 34 percent of students said they want laptops that are small and lightweight, […]

Adults have previously been the largest demographic of cell phone users, but teenagers are closing the gap, shows 2008 data collected by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.While a 2004 study found that 45 percent of teens ages 12 to 17 owned a cell phone, those numbers climbed to 63 percent in 2006 and […]

The five miles of Silicon Valley roadway between the Apple and Palm headquarters is apparently well trodden, as employees of each company have defected to the other-a trend that Steve Jobs sought to put a stop to in 2007, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg reported Aug. 20 that it has reviewed “communications” that occurred between Apple […]