Michelle Maisto

Volvo, betting on connected car technologies, announced Oct. 6 that it has a vision: By 2020, no one will be killed or seriously injured in a new Volvo.Two months earlier, Nissan set a similar goal, announcing plans to have a commercially viable vehicle with Autonomous Drive technology available by 2020. Furthermore, within two product generations […]

Connected Cars: A Look at the Future of Driving (and Society) By Michelle Maisto Sync In-Car Connectivity Ford Sync, developed with Microsoft, was an early answer to offering in-vehicle connectivity. Sync extends a smartphone’s connectivity to the car, enabling a driver to take advantage of features such as voice-activated navigation, calling, radio-tuning and music searching. […]

If Lenovo, the China-based, global top-selling computer brand, buys BlackBerry, President Obama may lose his coveted smartphone, The New York Times reported Oct. 25, citing “officials.” Obama was an avid BlackBerry user when he took office in January 2009, and after refusing to be smartphone-free, he received a National Security Agency-approved version with enhanced security […]

Apple introduced the plastic-case iPhone 5C Sept. 10, as way of reaching buyers unwilling or unable to afford its high-end smartphones. In key markets, however, the device is still proving too pricey. Apple expanded availability of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C Oct. 25 to 25 additional countries, including Russia, India, Spain, Mexico and Italy. […]

For a feature story on the connected car market, I recently spoke with Chris Penrose, senior vice president of AT&T’s Emerging Devices organization. While AT&T hasn’t yet shared pricing details concerning the Long Term Evolution (LTE) connectivity that it will soon support in a number of vehicles, Penrose shared the carrier’s thinking on the subject. […]

BlackBerry just can’t catch a break. It made the gutsy move of deciding to build a brand new, from-scratch operating system, but then delivered it wildly late, well after the majority of its users had already left. Trying for a comeback, it got Grammy-winning Alicia Keys to be its creative director, and then she tweeted […]

HP JetDirect, 1200w Offer Secure, Driverless Mobile Printing By Michelle Maisto HP LaserJet Enterprise M800 Series The M800 series, says HP, are the first enterprise printers and multifunction printers (MFPs) with touch-to-print functionality and wireless direct connectivity. Thanks to these options, a user doesn’t have to be connected to the network or wireless network to […]

Samsung, the world’s top-selling mobile phone brand, is being scolded on two fronts. In China, Samsung was recently called out on state-run television CCTV for using faulty flash memory modules that made some Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II devices susceptible to a “sudden death” bug. The program suggested that the pricey handset became […]

Hours before AT&T released its 2013 third-quarter results, T-Mobile CEO John Legere, who hasn’t been shy about his plan to win over AT&T’s customers (who hasn’t been shy about anything, period), announced that T-Mobile was again shaking up the wireless industry, this time by encouraging people to use tablets the way they were meant to […]

AT&T announced the financial results of its 2013 second quarter Oct. 23 while focusing on the particular successes of its Project Velocity IP (VIP) and U-verse efforts. “I don’t think there’s a better wireline growth story in the industry,” said AT&T CFO John Stephens, announcing that the TV and high-speed Internet service passed the 10 […]

Enterprises increasingly rely on mobile devices, working on multiple carriers, and yet most have little control over, or visibility into, the quality of the networks their workers are connecting to. “Locality makes cellular just as measurable and manageable as an in-house wired or WiFi network,” NetMotion Wireless CTO Joe Savarese said in an Oct. 21 […]

First Look: Nokia Lumia 2520 Tablet, 1520, 1320 and Asha Smartphones by Michelle Maisto Nokia World 2013 In Abu Dhabi Nokia CEO Stephen Elop took the stage at Nokia World 2013 to introduce six new devices, including Nokia’s anticipated first Windows-running tablet, the Lumia 2520. Nokia 2520 Windows Tablet The 2520 is undoubtedly a Lumia […]