Michelle Maisto

To the lucky Singapore and Southeast Asia markets, HTC has released the Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 smartphones.The phones are said to be improvements on the HTC Touch Diamond smartphone released in the United States on April 10 and the HTC Touch Pro, released in October 2008.Both the Touch Diamond2 and Touch Pro2 feature HTC’s […]

Apple sells an average of 90 iPhone 3G handsets, 123 Macs and 240 iPods per day in its New York Fifth Avenue location and other flagship stores-though in an average retail store, those numbers drop to 16 iPhones, 20 Macs and 27 iPods.These numbers were compiled in an April 15 research note from research outfit […]

Dell is rolling out a new suite of mobile data security solutions for its Latitude line of laptops, including encrypted solid-state drives from Samsung that are due in “the coming months.”“We think of security in terms of being preventative and protective,” Dell senior product planner Craig Durr told eWEEK. “Preventative tends to be preventing unauthorized […]

Gartner is reporting a 6.5 percent decline in worldwide PC shipments for the first quarter of 2009, according to numbers released on April 15 that put the quarter’s figure at 67.2 million units shipped.In terms of worldwide numbers, Hewlett-Packard took the lead over Dell, with 19.8 percent of the first-quarter market share, to Dell’s 13.1 […]

The Acer Veriton M265, Veriton M412G and Veriton M670G desktops have all received a design update for more intuitive use, simplified repairs and better physical integrity. The new design includes open air vents on the front of the systems, for improved ventilation; a series of slats covering a mesh panel, to strengthen and reinforce the […]

Lenovo is looking to take the guesswork out of hard disk drive encryption by offering a new remote management application that ensures corporate data is protected when laptops leave the office.“You’d think it would be easy to do,” said Stacy Cannady, product security manager at Lenovo, explaining the PC maker’s new Hardware Password Manager, a […]

Mininotebooks-or “netbooks”-saved the day in a difficult economy, according to 2009 first-quarter PC shipment numbers from IDC. At the same time, Hewlett-Packard knocked Dell out of the No. 1 spot in the U.S. PC market.In the United States, shipments fell only 3 percent, buoyed by the sale of portable devices from Hewlett-Packard, Acer and Toshiba.“Tight […]

Dell is planning to enter the smartphone market in China by the end of 2009, Reuters is reporting, citing two unnamed analysts.The analysts confirmed that Dell is working on handsets with Chi Mei Communications, an arm of Hon Hai, an electronics giant in Taiwan, and also that software maker Red Office is designing operating systems […]

Apple has ordered 100 million units of 8-gigabit and 16-gigabit NAND flash memory chips, mostly from Samsung, according to an April 13 research note from Daniel Amir of Lazard Capital Markets.The chips will likely go toward the new iPhones Apple is preparing to launch in June, according to the report.The majority of the order is […]

Few disagree that, with the iPhone, Apple changed users’ expectations of devices and how they interact with them-in short, mobility. Whether the iPhone is a fit for the enterprise, however, is a topic that provokes debate.Forrester Research released a report on April 10, “Making iPhone Work in the Enterprise: Early Lessons Learned,” in which report […]

Samsung has released a new rugged mobile phone for use on the AT&T Push to Talk network. The Samsung a657 is one tough cookie, with a candy bar layout-ideal for mounting on a dashboard-and rubberized sides for a sure grip.Meant for the rough environments, such as those faced by workers in field service, maintenance and […]

Netbooks have resisted the dips in shipment numbers that other hardware has experienced in response to an ailing economy. Now, new data from ABI Research suggests that not only are netbooks weathering the recession, but they may be helped by it.“Netbook sales may not be adversely affected-in fact may actually be helped-by the recessionary pressures,” […]