Michelle Maisto

Google’s Android operating system premiered in the United States in August 2008, on the T-Mobile G1 smartphone from HTC. After just one U.S. hit single, as it were, the Linux-based, open-source operating system is ready to break out beyond the smartphone world.“Android is certainly viable in platforms beyond the phone,” says Roger Kay, president of […]

Dell may soon be releasing a new line of netbooks.Engadget recently reported that a German Website, netbooknews.de, got a hold of slides that it says are of Dell’s road map for its netbooks. If true, a new Mini 11 netbook could be out sometime before the end of the third quarter of 2009, with a […]

The Nokia E75 smartphone for business users has arrived in stores. It’s the first Nokia device to ship with the company’s new e-mail user interface, which offers a standard desktop e-mail experience – one-click reply, subfolders, HTML support, the ability to open attachments – on a 4.8-ounce device running Symbian S60 third edition software.The E75 […]

Dell launched on April 6 IdeaStorm for Healthcare and Life Sciences, an online community for collecting ideas on how to improve health care with IT solutions. Users register and post ideas, which other users can vote to “Promote,” earning the idea 10 points, or “Demote,” which subtracts 10, thereby democratically allowing the agreed-upon best ideas […]

Research in Motion saw profits of $3.46 billion for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009, the BlackBerry maker’s very pleased co-CEO Jim Balsillie announced April 2. The company’s quarter ended Feb. 28, and RIM’s revenue shot up from $2.78 billion the previous quarter – which was an impressive 84 percent increase from the $1.88 […]

HTC’s S743 smartphone, which is geared toward enterprise users and offers Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1, is slated for U.S. sales beginning in early April.The S743 smartphone is a narrow, true candy-bar-style phone with an angular, crisp appearance compared with the softer, rounded-corners look that seems in vogue among many of its competitors.It features a 12-button […]

“Landslide” feels inadequate to describe the margin by which Intel beat other microprocessor companies for market share in 2008, according to new data from iSuppli.In the fourth quarter of 2008, Intel held 81.8 percent of the market, followed by Advanced Micro Devices with 10.6 percent. Smaller companies’ grip on the market was insignificant enough for […]

AT&T has a deal for residents of Atlanta and Philadelphia. The wireless carrier has announced it is offering prices as low as $49.99 for mini-notebooks – or “netbooks” – in combination with the AT&T “Internet at Home and On the Go” broadband services plan, as part of a limited trial offer in select company-owned stores. […]

11 Notable Phones from Nokia, Samsung, LG and Kyocera Spotted at CTIA by Michelle Maisto No Title The Kyocera G2GO M2000 (pronounced “good to go”) features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel camera with a dedicated key for quick access, an MP3 player also with a dedicated key, a WAP 2.0 browser, and support […]

Nokia released a slew of information from the CTIA Wireless 2009 show in Las Vegas, all of it relating to the Ovi Store, which will open in May. Ovi Store is an application mart that will include social-networking features and location-based services. Nokia first introduced it at the 2009 Mobile Work Congress in Barcelona.First on […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out a new graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4890, which the chip company claimed is driven by the “world’s most powerful graphics processor.”Testing by GPU Review shows the HD 4890 delivers 1.36 teraflops of raw computing power, versus the 1.06 teraflops of a competing GPU. With the release of […]

Kyocera has introduced the G2GO M2000 and Laylo – both CDMA phones but intended for different users and states of mind.The G2GO (pronounced “good to go”) is being touted as a low-cost, text-centric device with a full qwerty keypad.The G2GO features a 2.4-inch QVGA screen that switches from a portrait to landscape orientation when the […]