Michelle Maisto

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos originally considered calling his company Relentless.com, and it’s hard to think of a more spot-on title. According to recent rumors, the company that seemingly already sells everything is planning to put its name on and offer two more items: a video-streaming set-top box and a smartphone. The set-top box […]

Apple’s CarPlay intro was a dud, according to Roger Lanctot, associate director of Strategy Analytics’ Global Automotive Practice. His March 12 blog post on the announcement is worth checking out if you missed it. Apple scrapped a plan for a Geneva Apple Store event, did without the fanfare that would usually accompany a “market-changing event” […]

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 […]