Michelle Maisto

The Nokia N97 is now available at Nokia’s New York and Chicago flagship stores.While there are reports that these early arrivals are for customers on established waitlists, a customer service representative at the New York flagship store laughed at the suggestion.“No,” she told eWEEK, “they’re for anyone.”Though she added, “You’re going to come soon, right? […]

The “Green Dam” software that the Chinese government wants installed on every PC sold in China by July 1 has remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities, as well as censorship software that blocks more than just adult content, according to researchers at University of Michigan’s Computer Science and Engineering Division.On the university’s site, the researchers posted remarks […]

Palm has a new CEO. The company announced June 10 that it has promoted Jon Rubinstein from executive chairman to chairman and CEO. Rubinstein is said to be the man behind the Palm Pre, the company’s new darling.“I am very excited about taking on this expanded role at Palm,” Rubinstein said in a statement. “Ed […]

The Palm Pre from the Inside Out, Courtesy of iSuppli by Michelle Maisto The Palm Pre The Palm Pre is retailing for $199, after a mail-in rebate and with a two-year service contract. It features a touch-screen interface, like the iPhone, but with a slideout QWERTY keyboard. iSuppli first estimated its production cost to be […]

Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Sony and Samsung are the leading component suppliers to the Palm Pre, researcher iSuppli found during a teardown of the new smartphone. iSuppli disassembled the Pre in order to see what’s inside, just as it has done with devices such as the BlackBerry Storm and Amazon Kindle 2. “With the Pre, Palm […]

A June 10 report from Strategy Analytics shows that in emerging markets, wireless subscriber numbers have continued to grow, despite reductions in minutes used and lowered wireless revenue for mobile operators, resulting from the global recession.In “A Q1 Look at Emerging Markets: It Could Be Worse,” report author Tom Elliot assessed the first-quarter 2009 performance […]

The Chinese government is being called on to reconsider its mandate that by July 1 all new computers include the “Green Dam” Internet filtering software.In China, the term “green” is said to refer to Internet surfing safe from explicitly adult content.The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology stated in a May 19 notice that […]

Virgin Mobile USA, which is looking to mimic its successful prepaid cell phone service model, will soon be offering Broadband2Go, a nationwide 3G wireless Internet service based around a USB dongle and a pay-as-you-go service.As with Virgin Mobile’s cell phone service, there is no contract to sign, no monthly subscription and no activation fee.The Novatel […]

This summer Hewlett-Packard is offering four new Pavilion series laptops, which it hopes will be headed to school in the fall.The student-friendly-and oddly rhyming-new offerings are the Pavilion dv2z, dv6t, dv6z Artist Edition 2 and dv3t.The Pavilion dv2z starts at $599, weighs 3.81 pounds, is less than 1 inch thick and has a 12.1-inch (diagonal) […]

We are hurting ourselves with our computers, and more so than ever before, reports a new study from the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.Back pain, blurred vision and mouse-related woes aside, researchers reported in the July 2009 issue of the AJPM that there has been a more than sevenfold increase in computer-related injuries due to […]

It remains to be seen what Apple’s introduction of the iPhone 3G S-in 16GB and 32GB models-as well as its price cut of the original iPhone 3G to $99 will mean for competitors such as Research In Motion, Palm and Nokia.Analyst Ezra Gottheil of Technology Business Research said the iPhone 3G S isn’t an entirely […]

Following its launch of the Palm Pre, Sprint has announced a new service plan for enterprise customers who are moderate data users. According to Sprint, the plan beats similarly priced offers from competitors AT&T and Verizon.The $39.99 connection plan for corporate liable accounts offers 500MB of monthly data, which Sprint says is twice as much […]