Michelle Maisto

Fresh off a small victory over AT&T, Verizon Wireless is now taking on Sprint, according to reporting from the Associated Press.The National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, an advertising watchdog group, has asked Sprint to stop calling itself “America’s most dependable 3G network,” after a challenge from Verizon, which believes […]

AT&T announced that the Hewlett-Packard iPaq Glisten 3G world phone will arrive on its network in the coming weeks. Geared toward balancing enterprise and home life, the Glisten runs Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system.The announcement came Nov. 24, the same day Verizon Wireless introduced an enterprise phone of its own, the Samsung Omnia II, […]

Motorola’s Droid will be getting some company on the Verizon Wireless network this holiday shopping season, when the carrier releases a new powerhouse on Dec. 2: the Samsung Omnia II.The newest Samsung smartphone runs the Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional OS, and in addition to high-speed connectivity on Verizon’s now much-hyped 3G network, Wi-Fi and […]

Nokia introduced two colorful 3G slider phones on Nov. 24 that will arrive in the first quarter of 2010.The square-edged, aluminum-framed 6700 Slide features a 2.2-inch QVGA screen above dedicated navigation buttons, all of which slides up to reveal a keypad. The navigation menu is ringed in black, and the frames come in rich shades […]

HTC and T-Mobile are among the vendors offering discounts during the post-Thanksgiving weekend, which is all too well known for its bargains, dearth of parking spots and instances of otherwise sane people shopping at ungodly hours. According to a Nov. 21 survey from Retrevo, an online electronics shopping site, last year 24 percent of Black […]

China Mobile will be the first carrier to offer Dell’s inaugural smartphone, the Mini 3i. In a joint statement on Nov. 23, the companies announced that the Mini 3i will be available by the end of the month, in a choice of Red Passion or Oiled Bronze. Pricing details were not announced.The smartphone runs Google’s […]

LG Electronics has launched its first netbook for the United States. The LG X120, which runs Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system and features a 10.1-inch LED backlit screen, will be soon available at RadioShack locations.The netbook doesn’t rely on Wi-Fi connectivity alone, and includes an integrated modem for connecting to AT&T’s 3G network. Also notable […]

The overall PC market is expected to show growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, though falling average selling prices will again lead to a decline in the market value of PC shipments, according to a Nov. 23 report from Gartner.Driven by mobile PC shipments, the overall PC market is expected to reach 298.9 million […]

In a recent measure of “buzz” among men 18 and older, Motorola was on the rise, while both Apple and BlackBerry fell, according to data from YouGov’s BrandIndex, which interviews 5,000 people each weekday to gauge consumer brand perception on a day-to-day basis. which The New York Times’ David Pogue described as “all masculine, all […]

During Dell’s fiscal third-quarter 2010 earnings announcement on Nov. 19, Brian Gladden, Dell’s chief financial officer, didn’t rule out the possibility of Mini 3, Dell’s newly revealed smartphone, arriving in the United States at some point.On Nov. 13, Dell introduced the Mini 3, which runs Google’s Android operating system, and announced that it would debut […]