Michelle Maisto

With great pleasure, Research In Motion announced its first-quarter results for fiscal year 2010 on June 18. RIM saw revenue of $3.42 billion-a 53 percent increase from the first quarter of the previous year-and shipped approximately 7.8 million devices, it said.RIM was coming off a strong fourth quarter, in which it saw revenue of $3.46 […]

It seems we may indeed have seen the bottom of the global semiconductor market, and that revenues in the fourth quarter of 2009 are likely exceed those from the fourth quarter of 2008, researcher iSuppli is reporting.The view from the bottom, however, is that worldwide semiconductor revenue in the first quarter of 2009 declined $44.3 […]

T-Mobile is expected to introduce a new Google Android-powered HTC smartphone, to arrive later this summer, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.The phone will reportedly be called the myTouch 3G, and it will be only the second Android-based phone offered by a major U.S. carrier. The first is the T-Mobile G1, which proved a hit […]

Disney and netbook-leader Asus have teamed up to offer the Disney Netpal, a netbook for kids ages 6 to 12. It will be arriving in late July in two colors, naturally: Princess Pink and Magic Blue.Durability, parental controls and Disney-heavy themes are the device’s most notable features. The Netpal features a “reinforced mechanical design,” according […]

Regarding the Palm Pre, the technology critics at The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were of a single mind. This week, however, it was the Apple iPhone 3G S that underwent their thorough testing, and the critics reported back less aligned.The Journal’s Walter Mossberg dutifully listed, and in many cases complimented, the […]

The Chinese government appears to be changing its stance on the ‘Green Dam Youth Escort’ filtering software, according to the Associated Press.AP has reported that, when reached by telephone, a member of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, who would not give his name, said the use of the Green Dam software was ‘not […]

On June 16, Research In Motion announced that its latest BlackBerry CDMA smartphone, called the BlackBerry Tour, will hit the North American market this summer.The Tour is a “world phone” and will support 3G EV-DO Rev. A networks in North America, as well as 3G UMTS/HSPA (2,100HMz) and quad-band EDGE/GPRS/GSM networks abroad.(One wonders whether the […]

On June 18, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion will announce the results of its first fiscal quarter of 2010, which ended May 30. Broadpoint AmTech analyst Mark McKechnie wrote to investors in a June 12 report that he expects a “solid result and outlook.” McKechnie added, “We are encouraged by early signs that non-iPhone carriers […]

Apple’s new iPhone 3G S goes on sale this Friday, June 19, on the AT&T network, but as of June 8 it has been possible to pre-order the smartphone at www.att.com/iPhone or by going into an AT&T retail location.“A great option is for people to pre-order on the Web, then the device gets shipped straight […]

Apple iPhone owners as a group behave differently from other smartphone owners, Forrester Research is reporting in a new study. While revealing in several ways, the findings most notably lead the research firm to conclude that “the mobile Internet is here to stay,” and that the experiences of early iPhone users provide “the best road […]

It was rumored that the Samsung Omnia Pro smartphone might arrive in August, but Samsung is said to have regained control of the leaking information and officially introduced the new smartphone-formerly named the Louvre B7610-in time for the start of the CommunicAsia show in Singapore, held June 16 to 19.Unwired View first published images of […]

Experts say the Apple iPhone 3G’s new $99 price tag will increase the competition between handset makers. Enterprise solutions provider Sybase said the new price is also likely also bring more iPhones into enterprises, as more consumers are moved to buy.“Executives are using it at home and thinking about how they can adopt this device […]