Michelle Maisto

Tony Fadell, who is said to have contributed greatly to the creation of the Apple iPod and iPhone, is officially leaving Apple after a nine-year collaboration with CEO Steve Jobs.According to The New York Times, Fadell had an idea for a hard-drive-based digital music player in 1990s, which he approached RealNetworks with. After clashing with […]

iPhone users were offered several new business capabilities on March 29, with the rollout of additional functions for Cortado Workplace, a free application for the iPhone.The new version includes 1GB of password-protected online storage space for documents and files. According to Cortado, users can upload up to 3MB at a time to the space, and […]

A March 30 report from Greenpeace associates the Apple iPad with global warming, as the activist organization seeks to raise new questions about the environmental effects of cloud computing. The term suggests a move to put less-robust devices in the hands of consumers, eliminating the need for massive data storage or processing power by instead […]

Research In Motion has purchased Viigo, an RSS service that lets mobile users customize an application to deliver information relevant to them, such as weather, news, flight information, stock quotes, sports updates, blogs and more. “Viigo is excited to announce that our company is now part of Research In Motion,” Viigo CEO Mark Ruddock said […]

The mobile Web 2.0 landscape is one of great opportunity, Juniper Research concluded in a March report highlighting the trends and growth within the space.The firm expects to see annual spending of $6 billion in mobile advertising by 2014, writing that “media owners are looking to deliver ads and content via new technology, across wider […]

10 Mobile Tech Trends to Watch into 2011: Gartner by Michelle Maisto Bluetooth 3 and 4 By 2011, two new versions of Bluetooth will emerge, according to Garner. Bluetooth 3 will introduce 802.11 for faster data transmission, and Bluetooth 4 will introduce a low-energy mode that will enable communication with peripherals and sensors and makes […]

Apple iPads that were preordered in a timely fashion, following Apple’s March 3 announcement that it would begin accepting orders March 12, have reportedly begun shipping.“Happiness on a Monday: Received my iPad shipping confirmation!” wrote Twitter user SecBarbie, just one of a number of Twitter users who began spreading the news on the morning of […]

With a week to wait until the iPad’s much-hyped arrival, a major question on analysts’ lips is, Who will buy Apple’s newest darling?According to a March 26 report from NPD Group, the most likely iPad buyers are current Apple product owners and 18- to 34-year-olds.The lure for the first group, said the report, lies in […]

The growth of smartphones running Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating systems, coupled with users’ heavy application adoption, is driving smartphone traffic over wireless networks, which increased by about 193 percent between February 2009 and February 2010.The finding comes from a March 25 AdMob report that looked to separate the network traffic between smartphones, feature […]

With shipments of smartphones and other wirelessly enabled devices expected to nearly triple 2009’s figures by 2014, the battle for mobile operating system dominance is growing as well.In a March 24 report, iSuppli said that while Apple, Nokia, Palm, Microsoft, BlackBerry and others have sought to make their smartphone mobile operating systems the favorite of […]