Michelle Maisto

Businesses are increasingly turning to social media to attract and keep customers. And while no one expects small or large businesses to be manning Twitter or Facebook 24/7, when something goes awry, companies pay the price. For this reason, Dialogue Consulting, a social media consultant group in Melbourne, Australia, has launched SocialSitter, a service that […]

AT&T charges the Central Intelligence Agency more than $10 million a year to provide data about subscribers, The New York Times reported last month, calling the arrangement part of the CIA’s overseas counterterrorism efforts. Now, consumer advocacy groups, led by Public Knowledge, have filed a petition with Federal Communications Commission (FCC), asking it to enforce […]

Instagram today updated its app to include a new feature, Instagram Direct, which lets users share photos and video with a single user or a group of up to 15 people. The updated app, version 5.0, is now in the Apple App Store and Google Play. A version for Windows Phone is in beta, coming […]

HTC One Max: Hands On With This Large Smartphone, or Phablet, Really by Michelle Maisto The One Max Is HTC’s Papa Bear The HTC One Max has a 5.9-inch display, measures 6.5 by 3.2 by 0.4 inches and weighs half a pound. At first glance, it may seem too big—absurdly big, even. But with time, […]

Yahoo continues to work frantically to fix its email service, which went down for some users around the world on Monday, Dec. 9. On Thursday morning at 5:30 PT Yahoo’s Customer Care division tweeted, “POP mail access is restored. Working on IMAP. Right now the best way to access email on mobile is w/ a […]

“That’s huge!” This is the first thing people say when you put out the HTC One Max, the third smartphone in HTC’s One family of devices. While the HTC One has a 4.7 inch full-HD display and the One Mini a 4.3-inch HD, the One Max boasts a 5.9-inch full-HD 1080p display. Friends, family, acquaintances, […]

HP Updates Elite Device Line With Thinnest Ultrabook Yet by Michelle Maisto HP EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 The EliteBook Folio 1040 G1 is now the thinnest Ultrabook in HP’s Elite lineup. It has a 14-inch touch display and, at 13.31 by 9.19 by 0.63 inches, is 16 percent thinner than its predecessor (plus, 7 percent […]

Hewlett-Packard has traditionally left high-volume printing to its competitors. But on Dec. 10 it introduced the S900 Series, a line of multifunction printers (MFPs) with integrated fleet management, security and document workflow features built in, and built for the biggest jobs. “We’re finding the balance between productivity and costs,” Brian Schmitz, director of Future Product […]

Hewlett-Packard, for an industry that’s shown it’s not very interested in traditional PCs, has introduced six new devices in various shapes and sizes. There’s an EliteBook Folio notebook that’s the thinnest Ultrabook in HP’s Elite lineup and takes cues from smartphone and tablet designs. A convertible notebook called the Revolve continues on a form factor […]

Verizon, continuing to strengthen its ability to deliver mobile video content, has purchased EdgeCast, a Southern California-based content delivery network (CDN). EdgeCast supports thousands of servers that can quickly adjust to traffic spikes and counts Twitter, Pinterest, Yahoo and WordPress among its 6,000 customers. The deal is valued around $350 million, TechCrunch reported Dec. 8, […]

The Federal Communications Commission has pushed its timeline to hold wireless spectrum auctions from 2014 to now mid-2015. New FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, in a Dec. 6 blog post, said he is “mightily impressed” by the work the Incentive Auction Task Force has accomplished to ready the FCC for the auctions, that Commissioners Rosenworcel and […]

iPass, which offers travelers and commuters a reliable option for connecting on the go, has released a Wi-Fi Cost Index—a report that outlines the expenses businesses face when workers don’t have a reliable option to connect to while on the go. Consider a worker on an international business trip, and the connectivity solutions she may […]