Michelle Maisto

Verizon Wireless announced it is remaining resilient, despite a challenging economy, and on July 27 announced total operating revenues of $26.9 billion for the second quarter of fiscal year 2009, an increase of 11 percent from the same quarter a year earlier.Diluted earnings per share for the second quarter were 52 cents, compared with 66 […]

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference on July 24, said the nation’s third-largest carrier would offer a mobile device running the Google Android operating system later in 2009, according to multiple sources. Reuters reported that Hesse didn’t say which vendor’s device Sprint plans to offer, but he did say he […]

T-Mobile announced it will be offering a BlackBerry Curve this summer-the 8520 smartphone.The Curve 8520, like the BlackBerry Tour, is a quad-band world phone, offering support for EDGE/GPRS/GSM 850/900/1,800/1,900MHz networks, which means voice and data coverage are likely to be available just about wherever your travels take you.In addition to 3G coverage, built-in Wi-Fi 802.11b/g […]

T-Mobile is about to double its number of retail partner locations, thanks to a new agreement with RadioShack.RadioShack announced on July 23 that the retail agreement will bring T-Mobile products and services to more than 4,000 RadioShack locations later this summer, including handsets such as the myTouch 3G, which runs the Google Android operating system.“Through […]

While the global economy remains stagnant, 269 million mobile handsets were shipped in the second quarter of 2009, according to ABI Research. The figure bodes well for the second half of 2009, according to Jake Saunders, ABI Research’s vice president of forecasting.“Shipments should build sequentially in a constructive manner with [the fourth quarter of 2009] […]

Verizon Wireless, offering a taste of what’s to come during its July 27 financial quarterly results call, announced on July 24 that its customer base grew by 1.1 million in the second quarter of 2009, for a total of 87.7 million customers.In a statement on the pending performance announcement, the carrier added that it had […]

Wireless services revenue, and for-now-exclusive rights to the Apple iPhone, again saved the day for AT&T, which reported results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2009 on July 22.“For the full second quarter, AT&T iPhone activations totaled more than 2.4 million,” said AT&T Chief Financial Officer Rick Lindner, on a conference call with investors […]

Mobile Internet use has “increased sharply,” according to a report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, based on data from an April 2009 survey. The survey additionally found that the growth rate at which African-Americans are accessing the mobile Internet is twice the national average. Among the 2,253 American adults surveyed, […]

New satellite communications operators are planning to offer dual satellite and cellular services in North America, which will be supported by dual-mode smartphones, according to a new report from ABI Research. These offerings, however, are thought to be a move for the operators to position themselves to take advantage of the 4G market, once LTE […]

T-Mobile has added three Samsung texting- and messaging-focused phones to its summer stash, the Comeback, the Gravity 2 and the t349.The Comeback might be called an unconventional clamshell style, flipping open horizontally, instead of vertically, to offer a full QWERTY keyboard.On the outside is a numeric keypad, a four-way menu navigator, a dedicated camera, and […]

A worker at Foxconn, the Chinese company that makes Apple’s iPhones, killed himself after learning that he was suspected of leaking secrets regarding the next generation of iPhone smartphones, Reuters reported on July 22.The Nanfang Daily reports that Sun Danyong, a 25-year-old product manager, oversaw 16 prototypes of Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone. When Sun realized one […]

AT&T will soon be taking its $50 netbook offer nationwide-and, anticipating all the fresh looks its more than 2,200 retail locations will be receiving, it went and gave them a makeover.The stores’ products and services are now more intuitively organized, according to AT&T.Additionally, the carrier said in a statement July 21 that “all wireless devices […]