Michelle Maisto

AT&T, like Verizon Wireless, has introduced new pricing plans, available as of Jan. 18. iPhone and other smartphone customers on the AT&T network can now buy-or switch from existing plans without penalty or obligation of contract extension-an unlimited voice and data plan for $99.99. Those with Family Talk plans can now purchase unlimited voice and […]

Mobile application stores will continue to draw in customers and drive up profits, according to new report from Gartner. The firm expects that in 2010, consumers will spend $6.2 billion in mobile application stores, while advertising revenue in app stores is expected to generate $0.6 billion worldwide. “As smartphones grow in popularity and application stores […]

For months, Apple has been mum on the topic of the much-rumored “iSlate” or Apple tablet PC. Still, the silence has only helped fuel speculation that the maker of the iPhone will introduce this near-mythical Apple tablet later in January, likely between Jan. 25 and 27. Whether the Apple tablet is real or not, many […]

The Motorola Droid has a bill of materials (BOM) totaling approximately $187.75, iSuppli reported on Jan. 14, following a “dissection” of the device. That total includes electronic components adding up to $179.11 and manufacturing costs of $8.64. It’s the priciest of the recent smartphones iSuppli has taken apart. The research firm recently estimated that the […]

Verizon Wireless announced several updates to its service plans that will go into effect Jan. 18. For new customers, its Nationwide Unlimited Talk plan-which, as the name implies, gets you a lot of nationwide talking but nothing more-will be $69.99 a month, down from $99.99. Nationwide Unlimited Talk and Text, which includes texting, as well […]

Lenovo introduced two new high-performance desktops PCs for enterprises on Jan. 14, the ThinkCentre M90 and M90p. Both are the first ThinkCentre desktops to run the 2010 Intel Core vPro family of processors, which reportedly enable the machines to run multiple intensive applications at once. Both desktops, which will be available in February in tower, […]

Strong PC sales in the fourth quarter of 2009 helped make up for a slow start, and in the end, the 2009 worldwide PC market achieved 2.3 percent year-on-year growth, according to a Jan. 13 report from IDC. Last year’s outcome was helped by a solid holiday shopping season, which saw price cuts of an […]

Though BlackBerry smartphones are the de facto mobile devices in most enterprises, many iPhone owners are still pushing for IT to support their handsets. Unfortunately for them, analyst Jack Gold of J. Gold Associates wrote in a Jan. 13 research note, iPhone adoption in the enterprise is more likely to be a “long, slow burn […]

Skype has named Miles Flint, former president of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, its new chairman, according to reporting from Bloomberg. Flint is an adviser to the private-equity firm Silver Lake, which in September purchased 70 percent of Skype from eBay for approximately $2 billion. In his new position, Flint will coordinate activities among the board’s […]

Hewlett-Packard and Intel are strutting their stuff for the seventh season of “Project Runway,” which premieres Jan. 14 on the Lifetime channel. The duo announced Jan. 13 that the HP TouchSmart PCs and HP Touchmart tm2 notebooks, both powered by Intel processors, will be used by contestants on the show. For the first time, the […]