Michelle Maisto

Apple has been awarded $290 million in damages by the U.S. jury tasked with recalculating a disputed portion of the fine owned to the iPhone maker, after a jury this summer found Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple patents. The figure puts the total damages owed to Apple at around $929 million. During the third […]

The Nexus Wireless Charger is now available for order in the Google Play store for $49.99 and will ship by Nov. 29. The 2.4-inch black square, as sleek and shiny as a pair of new patent-leather party shoes, offers wireless charging to the Google Nexus 5, Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 tablet. The charging pad, […]

Tom Wheeler has jumped into his role as the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) by announcing a need to address the wireless networks’ evolution from circuit-switched time-division multiplexing (TDM), or the old “copper networks,” as they’re often called, to Internet Protocol, or IP-based. “This is what I have called the Fourth Network […]

The holidays are coming and that means, among other things, there are deals to be had on smartphones. Sprint is starting its holiday offers the Friday before Black Friday, offering a $100 instant discount off the price of any new phone with a new two-year agreement. Those who switch their numbers to Sprint and choose […]

Sprint, midway through an overhaul, has said things are likely to get worse before they get better, and Consumer Reports has found that to be the case. In its annual consumer survey on cell phone service ratings, Sprint fell to the bottom of the list, Consumer Reports announced Nov. 21. “While it trailed only Verizon […]

Ericsson Predicts a Mobile-Networked Society by 2050 By Michelle Maisto CEO Hans Vestberg on Three Things Changing Everything “Mobility, broadband and the cloud change everything,” Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg told eWEEK, offering examples from how the ways we buy music has changed to how in the future it will be common for people to cobble […]

The Motorola-made, Google-collaborated Moto X smartphone is available from all major U.S. carriers, but the Verizon Wireless version began receiving a special treat Nov. 19—Android 4.4, known as KitKat. “Our software strategy is to build on a pure Android foundation and complement existing Google services, not compete with them,” Motorola said in a blog post. […]

MIAMI—Ericsson, in concert with a Networked Society Forum (NEST) event here Nov. 19, released a Networked City Index report ranking 31 cities on their information and communications technology (ICT) maturity. There is a strong correlation, says Ericsson, between ICT maturity and societal, economic and environmental development—what it calls the “Triple Bottom Line.” Stockholm, Sweden, Ericsson’s […]

Verizon Enterprise Solutions has introduced Managed Certificate Services (MCS), a cloud-based, scalable solution aimed at better securing the fast-climbing number of things—from smartphones to smart meters and smart cars—now connecting to the Internet. MCS authenticates objects and machines and ensures that data is safely transmitted between connections, whether from machine to machine or device to […]

Lenovo Yoga Tablet Offers Every-Which-Way Functionality by Michelle Maisto Lenovo’s Newest Versatile Duo Lenovo’s Yoga Ideapad laptop was well-received, and so it brought the same premises—functionality, versatility, flexibility—to two new tablets, the 8- and 10-inch Yoga Tablet. Both run Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean). Hold, Stand, Tilt One of the big sells of the Yoga Tablet […]

Lenovo introduced both the Yoga Tablet and its newest product engineer, Ashton Kutcher, at a press event in Los Angeles Oct. 29. More than joining a category that includes Alicia Keys for BlackBerry and Shakira for T-Mobile, Kutcher’s partnership with Lenovo was framed as an extension of his savvy as a tech venture capitalist—his firm […]

Moto G: Why the New Smartphone May Be Motorola’s $179 Homerun by Michelle Maisto The Moto G: This Is a Big Deal At a Nov. 13 event in New York City, Motorola introduced the Moto G, a seriously inexpensive (by U.S. standards) smartphone with more than respectable specs. Motorola hasn’t announced carrier partners yet, but […]