Michelle Maisto

Amazon is encouraging the idea of its Kindle Fire HDX as an enterprise-friendly device, and it has packed on some helpful features toward this end. Most notably, there’s an integrated virtual private network (VPN), so users can securely access business email accounts, and Whispercast technology—as well as compatibility with other third-party mobile device management solutions—so […]

Hewlett-Packard has introduced two new printers for enterprises with new near-field communication (NFC) touch-to-authenticate technology that makes its simpler and more secure for workers and contractors to print from Android-based smartphones and tablets. HP Access Control 14.0 enables a user to tap an Android device to the NFC console at the top of the HP […]

Kindle Fire HDX, True to Amazon, Offers Something for Everyone By Michelle Maisto Hands On the Amazon Kindle Fire HDX Most immediately noticeable about the Fire HDX is its crisp display (2,560 by 1,600 and 339 pixels per inch) and how lightweight it is. At 8.9 inches, its display is a full inch larger on […]

AT&T has completed its acquisition of prepaid carrier Leap Wireless, which operates the Cricket brand. For its payout of $15 a share, or approximately $1.2 billion, AT&T will receive Leap’s wireless properties, network assets, retail stores and 4.57 million subscribers. In addition to gaining a surer hold of the prepaid market—a move that will help […]

Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook March 13 to vent about a disappointing phone call with President Obama and the National Security Agency’s (NSA) ongoing practice of spying on everyone. “To keep the internet strong, we need to keep it secure. That’s why at Facebook we spend a lot of our energy making our services and […]

Masayoshi Son, the CEO of Softbank and now chairman of Sprint’s board of directors, gave his first speech in the United States before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce March 11. Son is working on a deal to merge Sprint—of which Softbank owns a 78 percent share—with T-Mobile, while aware of how unpopular such a prospect […]

Masayoshi Son, CEO and chairman of Softbank and now chairman of the Sprint Corp., is on a campaign to change hearts and minds about the potential of a Sprint merger with T-Mobile. Son recently taped a show with Charlie Rose, and on March 11 gave a speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, […]

A day after National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden told South by South West (SXSW) attendees that U.S. government agencies’ mass surveillance techniques are “setting fire to the future of the Internet,” U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., went public with what she said was a CIA Internet scandal that for months she had been […]

Among the updates to Apple’s iOS 7.1 software are changes to iBeacon, Apple’s marketing-driven technology that offers users a more personalized shopping experience, among other things. With the update, the software will look for in-store beacons even when related apps are shut down, Beekn.net reported, after trying out the feature. While in the past a […]

Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son is still intent on the idea of merging Sprint, the nation’s third-largest carrier, with T-Mobile, its fourth largest. Doing so, Son recently told interviewer Charlie Rose, would turn an industry duopoly (between mega carriers Verizon Wireless and AT&T) into a fair, three-way fight. “There are two big duopolies, and they take […]

Apple’s shareholders, employees and developer community have lost confidence in CEO Tim Cook, analyst Trip Chowdhry, with investment firm Global Equities Research, told investors in a March 8 report. Better suited for the job, the firm said, may be a team of Jon Rubenstein—the so-called “father of the iPod,” who left Apple for Palm, where […]

Apple has announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer will retire in September. Luca Maestri, Apple’s vice president of finance and corporate controller, will succeed him. The news comes a day after Goldman Sachs announced the addition of Oppenheimer to its board of 13 directors, effective immediately. Oppenheimer, who has been […]