Michelle Maisto

AT&T announced it will acquire wireless assets from Verizon Wireless for $2.35 billion in cash, in a deal that will ultimately bring 3G and Wi-Fi networks to rural areas of the United States.Among the assets trading hands are 1.5 million current Verizon Wireless subscribers in 79 service areas across Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, […]

Google’s Android operating system is expected to grow by 900 percent in 2009, encouraged by vendors, developers and operators, a May 11 report from research firm Strategy Analytics is predicting.The report, “Global Smartphone Vendor Market Share by Region: 2008,” breaks down smartphone market growth by region and operating system.“The Android mobile operating system from Google […]

Lenovo is announcing an update to its IdeaPad S10 netbook, the IdeaPad S10-2.One criticism of the original S10 was its tiny keyboard, and with the S10-2 Lenovo has addressed this, expanding the keyboard to 90 percent of the size of a standard keyboard.The touch-pad is also larger, and the S10-2 has three USB ports instead […]

The presence of Apple iPhones in the enterprise has increased, but the debate about whether the iPhone provides sufficient enterprise-level security continues. While some say it’s possible to manage iPhones within an enterprise, others believe it’s wiser to refrain.Odyssey Software is in the latter camp.Odyssey’s primary offering is a mobile device management solution, for the […]

Creating an Apple iPhone for the Verizon Wireless network is in Apple’s best economic interests, according to a new research report from Citigroup Global Markets analysts Richard Gardner, Michael Rollins and Jim Suva. The May 5 report outlines 10 reasons why the analysts believe Apple will not extend its contract with AT&T for the long […]

Lenovo ThinkPad Laptops, ThinkCentre PCs Power Tornado Watchers No Title The VORTEX2 tornado research team will use Lenovo ThinkPad W700 laptops for radar and mapping applications, as well as analyzing and displaying graphic-intense data and video. According to Lenovo, the laptops will additionally be used for public presentations and for the first analysis of data […]

Verizon Wireless has teamed with Novatel Wireless to offer the MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot, which will be available May 17.With the MiFi, Verizon Wireless customers can create a personal Wi-Fi cloud capable of connecting up to five devices, such as notebooks, netbooks and gaming devices, at 3G mobile broadband speeds.The travel-friendly MiFi measures 3.5 […]

In what seems to confirm the presence of a Google Android-based netbook, Bsquare announced May 6 that it will port “Adobe’s Flash Lite 3.17 technology onto Dell netbooks running Google’s Android platform.” The Bsquare announcement seems to confirm what many have suspected for months: that Dell and other PC vendors are hard at work creating […]

AT&T has added one more application to the more than 20,000 offerings in the Apple App Store with its new, free application called myWireless Mobile.The mobile application for iPhones-a supplement to AT&T’s myWireless service on its Website-offers customers a quick way to mange accounts. The application offers account views of data usage and text messages, […]

Canadians will have access to the Palm Pre smartphone later this year. Arriving in the second half of 2009, the Pre will be available on Canada’s Bell Mobility 3G high-speed network, Palm stated in a May 6 announcement.“We’re excited to bring Pre to Canada with Bell Mobility,” Brodie Keast, senior vice president of marketing for […]

Nokia’s high-end E71x smartphone is now available in the United States on the AT&T 3G network.Called “the thinnest QWERTY smartphone on the market” by Nokia, the E71x measures 0.04 inches deep and 4.4 by 2.2 inches long and wide.The E71x runs Symbian’s S60 3.2 operating system and offers Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0, GPS with turn-by-turn […]

The analyst day preceding Research In Motion’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium, which starts May 5 in Orlando, Fla., left a positive impression on Broadpoint AmTech analyst Mark McKechnie.“We came away with increased comfort in the long-term story and believe the May quarter is on track,” McKechnie wrote in an investor update.The first quarter of 2009 was […]