Michelle Maisto

Apple has released an iOS 7.1 update for iPhones. The software, said Apple, is “packed with interface refinements, bug fixes, improvements” and other new features. But the primary reason for the update is the CarPlay, software that was introduced at the Geneva International Motor Show March 3 and is compatible with in-car software now in […]

Five of the 10 top-selling mobile phone vendors in the world are Chinese, a fact that’s been obscured by sales mainly taking place in China. That’s about to change, according to a new report from ABI Research. While Chinese OEMs accounted for 38 percent of global mobile handset shipments in 2013, this year, they’re set […]

European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes is calling for a more disciplined and secure Europe. Speaking at the CeBIT trade conference in Germany March 10, Kroes said that technology should be embraced for the social and economic advancements it can offer, but that our new data-driven world relies on a combination of reliability and trust—the […]

T-Mobile CEO John Legere has said the nation’s wireless carriers aren’t engaged in a “pricing war,” but that’s not what last week looked like. T-Mobile on Friday, March 7, announced it was doubling down, adding more 4G LTE data to its Simple Choice plans at no extra cost. Its formerly 500MB plan is now 1GB, […]

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference March 6, shared his thinking about the year ahead, including Comcast’s $45 billion proposed buyout of Time Warner cable and the spectrum auctions planned for mid-2015. “We’ve spent a lot of time, obviously, reviewing the [Comcast] transaction and it creates an […]

BlackBerry is assuring developers that it will make good on its $10k Developer Commitment. After BlackBerry recently updated a post on its developer blog, intending to “add clarity” to a situation, it instead “caused unnecessary confusion” among developers, the company told eWEEK. “Our apologies for the confusion.” Developers read the updated post as BlackBerry trying […]

If you’re not actively courting Millennials, you’re part of a group leaving a $20 billion revenue opportunity on the table, due to poor quality-of-service issues alone, Verizon said in its March 2014 “Millennials & Entertainment” report. Millennials account for 21 percent of consumer spending—that’s $1.3 trillion—so aligning your digital strategy with their habits, needs, wants […]

Smartglasses: What Could Businesses Achieve With a $300 Pair? by Michelle Maisto Google Glass: When Less Can Be More Google introduced smartglasses to the mainstream (even if the mainstream couldn’t buy them) with Glass. Glass offers an augmented reality experience and can perform a variety of tasks when prompted by voice. But it costs $1,500, […]

The FreedomPop Privacy Phone, or the “Snowden Phone,” as FreedomPop has nicknamed it, is the latest mobile industry effort to offer customers ensured privacy. The phone runs on FreedomPop’s voice over IP (VoIP) network and encrypts each voice packet so they’re untraceable, says the carrier. Additionally, all application and Internet data is sent through a […]

Epiphany Eyewear doesn’t think of its smartglasses as competing with Google Glass but more as a “GoPro for your eyes,” Cory Grenier, the company’s director of marketing and sales, told eWEEK on a recent call. Indeed, at a glance, the company could seem to be more aggressively taking on Warby Parker than anything out of […]

Apple is the most coveted brand in the developing world, according to a new report from mobile monetization company Upstream, in conjunction with research firm Ovum. It’s an intriguing bit of news, given how unconducive to Apple dominance developing markets are said to be. Apple is counting on consumers in China, the world’s largest smartphone […]

At MacWorld 2009, John Gruber, of the Daring Fireball blog, gave a talk called the “The Auteur Theory of Design,” in which he talked about how just as films benefit from having an auteur—a director with a vision who is constantly making decisions—so could other disciplines. He gave the example of a theoretical software company—that […]