Michelle Maisto

The day the first iPhone was introduced, Apple’s lead engineers were in the audience of San Francisco’s Moscone Center, drinking heavily. Each time a portion of the 90-minute presentation went off without a visible hitch, the person responsible for the featured technology would drink from a shared flask of Scotch. As Fred Vogelstein tells the […]

Nine Ways the Apple iPhone Redefined the Smartphone in 2007 By Michelle Maisto iPhone as Three-in-One Device Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld 2007 and announced that Apple would be introducing three products: a wide-screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and an Internet communications device. He repeated the list several times, […]

Lenovo continues to protect and attack and succeed. On Feb. 13 it announced the results of its fiscal 2013/2014 third quarter, which included record revenue and profit. Lenovo’s revenue was $10.8 billion U.S.—marking the first time it surpassed the $10 billion mark—and net profit was $265 million, up 30 percent year on year. “We are […]

Verizon Wireless, leading an increasingly competitive market that in the last year has also been challenged and antagonized by scrappy fourth-place carrier T-Mobile, has introduced More Everything, a “new way of looking at wireless plans,” it said in a Feb. 13 announcement. For the first time, Verizon added, it’s bringing together all the tools people […]

Humavox RF Wireless-Charging Technology Aimed at Broad Array of Apps by Michelle Maisto A New Kind of Wireless Charging Humavox isn’t a product company, CEO Omri Lachman makes clear. It’s a technology company that wants to enable product companies with great ideas, whatever the vertical market. The Humavox Nest The Humavox technology consists of a […]

Nokia, with the roar and thrum of some old hot rod engines, has introduced the Lumia Icon, a high-end Windows Phone that will be available from Verizon Wireless Feb. 20 for $199.99 with a two-year contract. The major selling points of the Lumia Icon are its four digital microphones, which can record, in undistorted stereo […]

Humavox has a new approach to wireless charging that it hopes will change the world. While Nokia, Google and others have focused on magnetic induction, Humavox’s technology uses radio frequencies (RF) to transfer energy instead of data. The inspiration for the technology came from CTO and Co-Founder Asaf Elssibony. “Asaf, my partner [and good friend], […]

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates likes to wash dishes, plays bridge and has no plans to be cryogenically frozen, he shared during an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session on Reddit Feb. 10. On the matter of the dishes, Gates said others volunteer for the job, “but I like the way I do it.” This prompted many […]

Sprint announced the results of its fiscal 2013 fourth quarter Feb. 11, making clear that while its Network Vision build-out still has a ways to go, some of the changes it’s making are working. Sprint finished 2013 with its highest number of platform subscribers ever, 53.9 million, after adding 58,000 postpaid (contract), 322,000 prepaid, and […]

Nokia is preparing to introduce a smartphone running a version of Google’s Android operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported Feb. 10, citing people familiar with the matter. After years of loyalty to its own Symbian OS, Nokia entered a partnership with Microsoft in February 2011, and since then its high-end smartphones have run the […]

Smartphone maker HTC continues to struggle for a comeback. On Feb. 10, the Taiwan-based company announced fourth-quarter 2013 results that included 27 consecutive months of declining revenue and a 38 percent year-over-year sales drop to $319 million. Still, it remains hopeful that things are about to change. “We believe this quarter will be the lowest […]

News that Sprint is considering making a bid to merge with T-Mobile has been met with something of an industrywide groan, of which the carriers have duly taken notice. Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son and CEO Dan Hesse expected the deal would be a tricky one to get the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Justice […]