Michelle Maisto

Among the updates to Apple’s iOS 7.1 software are changes to iBeacon, Apple’s marketing-driven technology that offers users a more personalized shopping experience, among other things. With the update, the software will look for in-store beacons even when related apps are shut down, Beekn.net reported, after trying out the feature. While in the past a […]

Sprint Chairman Masayoshi Son is still intent on the idea of merging Sprint, the nation’s third-largest carrier, with T-Mobile, its fourth largest. Doing so, Son recently told interviewer Charlie Rose, would turn an industry duopoly (between mega carriers Verizon Wireless and AT&T) into a fair, three-way fight. “There are two big duopolies, and they take […]

Apple’s shareholders, employees and developer community have lost confidence in CEO Tim Cook, analyst Trip Chowdhry, with investment firm Global Equities Research, told investors in a March 8 report. Better suited for the job, the firm said, may be a team of Jon Rubenstein—the so-called “father of the iPod,” who left Apple for Palm, where […]

Apple has announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer will retire in September. Luca Maestri, Apple’s vice president of finance and corporate controller, will succeed him. The news comes a day after Goldman Sachs announced the addition of Oppenheimer to its board of 13 directors, effective immediately. Oppenheimer, who has been […]

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 […]