Michelle Maisto

Yahoo Food, Yahoo Tech and Yahoo News Digest were among the new products Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer introduced during a keynote address delivered before a packed theater at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Jan. 7 in Las Vegas. Mayer also shared news of changes to Yahoo’s advertising strategy and reiterated themes she’s been […]

Samsung continues its aggressive pursuit of enterprise customers with the Jan. 6 introduction of Samsung Enterprise Services, a portfolio of services to support customers through the life of a mobile device deployment.The offering will integrate with Samsung’s existing enterprise offerings, including the Knox security platform. With Enterprise Services, Samsung has moved into two new partnerships. […]

Sony introduced the Xperia Z1 Compact at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan. 6. The phone is a petite follow-up to the Xperia Z1 it introduced at IFA in Berlin Sept. 4, 2013, and the Xperia Z it first showed off at CES last year. Sony promises that the Z1 Compact offers […]

Remo Software has introduced More, a free cloud-based app that addresses the growing number of devices in consumers’ lives. The More app allows users to control and optimize multiple devices, regardless of operating system or form factor—your iPhone, PC, Android-running tablet, you get it—from a single source. More than a reshuffle of the Remo name, […]

AT&T had a busy first day to say the least at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Taking to a stage at the Palms Jan. 6, AT&T introduced a controversial new plan that lets content providers pick up the data bill for visitors to their sites, apps or services. It announced the upcoming […]

Induct Technology has begun selling the world’s first commercially available self-driving vehicle, Navia. Imaged as an ideal transportation source for contained environments such as college and corporate campuses, Navia is a mix between a golf cart and a little, white minibus. It’s 100 percent electric, can travel at speeds of just over 12 mph and […]

AT&T introduced Sponsored Data Jan. 6 during a major event at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). John Donovan, senior executive vice president of AT&T Technology and Network Operations, called it a “new way for eligible 4G customers to enjoy mobile content and apps without impacting their monthly data plan.” The carrier further likened the […]

Lenovo’s message from the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is this: People no longer need to decide whether to buy a tablet or a laptop, they just need to decide which Lenovo device they would like. As the Las Vegas event got underway, Lenovo introduced three new devices (or six, if you include variations), each […]

BlackBerry has filed a suit in the Northern District of California against Typo Keyboards, a company co-founded by TV personality Ryan Seacrest to create a better typing experience on the Apple iPhone. The Typo Keyboard is a $99 case that clicks onto an iPhone 5 or 5S, essentially giving it a BlackBerry keyboard. “For several […]

AT&T is offering T-Mobile customers up to $450 per line to switch to AT&T and trade in an eligible smartphone, it announced Jan. 3. The offer is available immediately. T-Mobile has been taunting AT&T and threatening to steal its customers since John Legere was named CEO and T-Mobile relaunched itself as the “un-carrier” about a […]

Motorola continues to sweeten the deals around the Moto X and the Moto G, the two phones it has released since being purchased by Google in mid-2011. On New Year’s Day, Motorola announced that it has permanently lowered the price of the Moto X to $399 without a contract. The Moto X is the first […]

More than 4.6 million Snapchat users had their names and phone numbers grabbed and posted to a database on New Year’s Eve by an individual or group of hackers, Gigaom reported Dec. 31. The information was posted as a downloadable database, with the last two numbers of each phone number blurred out. “The company was […]