Michelle Maisto

Reports that the Apple iPhone 6 will feature a sapphire glass display are seeming more likely. Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed in January that Apple is opening a factory in Mesa, Ariz., that will focus on sapphire glass, though he wouldn’t say what the glass is for. MacRumors reported Jan. 24 that Apple had teamed […]

When talk of a possible T-Mobile-Sprint merger first arose, it struck many as little more than that—talk. Sprint was “studying regulatory concerns” and contemplating a bid during the first half of 2014, The Wall Street Journal reported Dec. 13. “Let’s pop this trial balloon quickly, please,” Public Knowledge Senior Staff Attorney John Bergmayer blogged the […]

Reports that Apple is working on a smartwatch—dubbed the “iWatch” by the press—have persisted for years, and in more recent months it’s been rumored that the device will include health and fitness features. News items from the last few weeks, however, suggest that what Apple is planning is less a gym buddy than a shake-up […]

NEW YORK—SAP is moving its core business to the cloud on its HANA cloud platform, SAP co-CEO Bill McDermott told investors at its Investor Symposium here and those watching a worldwide live feed of the Feb. 4 event. “In 2010 we came up with a winning strategy, and it started with a winning dream: Make […]

Satya Nadella, on his first day as CEO of Microsoft, sat for a 20-minute Webcast interview during which he repeated key themes already introduced in a press statement, a video, on a Web page and in an employee-addressed Feb. 4 email that Microsoft forwarded well beyond its campus. One theme was Nadella’s voracious appetite for […]

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, during a November fireside chat at alma mater University of Chicago, answered a question about career planning by reportedly telling the audience: “We must ask ourselves, do I feel stretched? A little overwhelmed? If the answers are no, then we are doing something wrong.” It’s likely Nadella will soon get the opportunity […]

Satya Nadella will soon be the third CEO to lead Microsoft, Bloomberg reported Jan. 31, citing people with knowledge of a process that has been under way since August, when current CEO Steve Ballmer announced his plan to retire. Nadella is currently executive vice president of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise group—its most profitable group—responsible for […]

AT&T, saying it wants to reward loyal customers and attract new ones, has announced an offer of a $100 credit to customers who add an additional line of service to their bills. That can mean a new smartphone, tablet, mobile hotspot or wireless home phone line. The offer will end March 31. “Customers want the […]

Mitek has introduced Mobile Photo Payments, a new way for large organizations to simplify the way their customers pay their bills. Anyone who has taken a photo of a check to directly deposit it into a bank account has likely already used Mitek technology—which more than 1,400 banks license. Mitek’s new solution puts its technology […]

While the world may have enough products with exclamation points in their titles, it could use some more safe public WiFi, and so Avast has introduced the avast! SecureLine VPN. Now available as a mobile app for Android and iOS, SecureLine purports to put some security and privacy between devices and the public networks that […]

AT&T shared the earnings results of its 2013 fourth quarter Jan. 28, announcing revenue of $33.2 billion, up 1.8 percent from a year ago, and income of $12.2 billion, compared to a loss of $6 billion a year ago. (The loss was largely related to issues around AT&T’s employee pension program and costs associated with […]

Lenovo, preparing to be a leader in the “PC+ era,” has announced a structural reorganization. Instead of two business groups, roughly divided between its Lenovo and Think brands, the new structure will establish four distinct groups, making clear where Lenovo intends to equally focus its intense energies. A PC Business Group will oversee the Lenovo […]