Michelle Maisto

10 Notable Netbooks, Laptops and All-in-One PCs from 2009 10 Notable Netbooks, Laptops and All-in-One PCs from 2009By Michelle Maisto Sony Vaio X Series On Oct. 8, Sony introduced the Vaio X Series, a 1.6-pound ultramobile notebook PC that Sony called the world’s lightest. It runs Windows 7, includes built-in Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth and Mobile […]

Garmin on Dec. 29 introduced the Oregon 450 and Oregon 450t, two new touch-screen GPS devices for fans of the outdoors-and of not getting lost. Both devices feature 3-inch color displays with touch-sensitive displays that can be used while wearing gloves. Intended to be ideal for hikers, cyclists, campers and runners, they offer paperless geocaching, […]

New York and San Francisco aren’t the only cities filled with bandwidth-devouring iPhone users, according to the Financial Times. On Dec. 29, Ronan Dunne, head of mobile carrier O2, apologized to customers for service issues-such as not being able to place calls-that were caused by enormous demand for data services in England’s capital. “Where we […]

Palm has introduced an update to its WebOS, the platform run by the Palm Pre and the Palm Pixi, both of which, in the United States, are exclusive to the Sprint Nextel network. With WebOS 1.3.5, available as of Dec. 28, Palm offers updates, improvements and a housecleaning of what were likely irritating, early snafus. […]

Tech specifications for the netbook that Google is rumored to be creating have been “leaked,” according to England’s IBTimes. The netbook, which various reports say will arrive in time for the 2010 holiday season, will reportedly run Google’s Chrome OS and feature a 10.1-inch, high-definition multitouch display, an ARM processor-said to offer better performance and […]

The Apple iPhone is now available again for online sale in the New York area. According to several reports, potential purchasers in New York and northern New Jersey were told during the weekend of Dec. 26 that, “New York is not ready for the iPhone,” essentially due to AT&T’s inability to offer adequate coverage in […]

Amazon.com expressed its thanks to its customers on Dec. 26, saying that they’d made its Kindle e-reader the most gifted item in the online retailers’ history.Additionally, Amazon announced that on Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more e-books than physical books.“We are grateful to our customers for making Kindle the most gifted […]

The Apple iPhone 3G is the most-used mobile phone in the United States, according to Dec. 21 data published on the blog of the Nielsen Company, which specializes in marketing and media information. Nielsen shows the “Apple 3G iPhone,” by which it presumably means the iPhone 3G, to own 4 percent of the “embedded base […]

Research In Motion BlackBerry handsets experienced e-mail and Internet outages on the evening of Dec. 22 and into the early morning hours the following day. It was RIM’s second major service failure in a week. CNN reported that the outage lasted more than 8 hours, and RIM in an e-mail to customers estimated that at […]

When 2009 is said and done, notebook PC revenues are likely to reach $109 billion – a figure down approximately 7 percent year-over-year, according to DisplaySearch, but one with netbooks to thank. In a Dec. 22 report, the firm showed that 2009 was an excellent year for netbooks, sales of which grew 103 percent from […]