Michelle Maisto

Stratasys has introduced what it says is the first 3D printer capable of simultaneously printing with three different materials and a number of colors, saving users from multiple print runs. The result, says the company, is the ability to produce parts with “virtually unlimited combinations of rigid, flexible and transparent color materials as well as […]

Apple is developing an expanded mobile payments solution to enable it to further take advantage of the more than 575 million credit card numbers it has on file from registered users of its iTunes store. The Wall Street Journal reported Jan. 24 that Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet software and services, has […]

Apple’s next iPhone may feature a display made of sapphire glass, BGR reported Jan. 27, citing a report from Taiwanese site Apple Daily. The latter reports that Foxconn has orders to manufacture 100 iPhone units with sapphire displays, presumably as a test run or early trial. Apple currently uses sapphire for the protective cover on […]

Apple sold 51 million iPhones—a new quarterly record for the company—during the holiday-timed quarter that ended Dec. 28, its fiscal 2014 first quarter. Those sales were well above the 33.8 million Apple sold the quarter before and the 47.8 million iPhones it sold during its holiday-timed quarter a year ago. Apple also sold 26 million […]

The history of mobile phones is the story of a single lesson repeated: Don’t get comfortable. Or, put more bluntly, as it often is, you have to be willing to kill your favorite child. To have any chance of staying on top, you have to walk away from the thing you labored to create and […]

Apple is celebrating the day 30 years ago that the first Macintosh said hello to the world. “It was approachable and friendly, starting with the smiley face that greeted you,” Apple wrote on its site, to celebrate the anniversary. “There were folders that looked like file folders and a trash can for throwing things away. […]

Mobile Phone’s History in 10 Industry-Changing Devices by Michelle Maisto 1983: Motorola DynaTAC 8000X In 1974, a Motorola engineer made the first-ever mobile phone call. (He, of course, called the rival company racing to the accomplishment, to say he’d won.) Nine years later, Motorola introduced the DynaTAC 8000X, a phone that soon became synonymous with […]

SAP, the B2B enterprise software company, would like to get to know its “customers’ customers” and so has devised a way to hopefully meet several million of them on Feb. 2, during Super Bowl XLVIII. In a warehouse on Long Island, SAP has constructed the NFL Stats Zone with Insights From SAP—a little house of […]

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Cisco CEO John Chambers, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and BT Group CEO Gavin Patterson participated in the opening panel at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 22, where they talked about disruption, mobility, security, privacy, the speed of change, the Internet of things, […]

AT&T has shrugged off the subscribers it has lost to T-Mobile, and presumably others, as mostly “low-revenue” 2G accounts, whose departure has conveniently freed up a bit of spectrum for repurposing. (During the third quarter of 2013, AT&T lost 285,000 such customers.) T-Mobile is not only happy to have cost-sensitive customers, it keeps making clear, […]

Verizon Wireless has done its best to stay a step removed from the public brawling between AT&T and T-Mobile—the latter of which has made clear its intentions to aggressively steal AT&T’s customers, and more agreeably everyone else’s. Verizon’s fourth-quarter 2013 results, though, showed that despite beating Wall Street’s estimates for revenue and profit, the company […]

China Mobile, as part of a deal that’s been anticipated for years, will begin selling the Apple iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C Jan. 17. Since the iPhones became available for preorder Dec. 25, the carrier has received orders for 1.2 million iPhones, CNBC reported Jan. 15. “It’s a watershed day for Apple. It’s a huge […]