Michelle Maisto

T-Mobile’s latest “un-carrier” moves follow the Oct. 22 introduction of the Apple iPad Air and iPad Mini with Retina display. T-Mobile will not only sell both new iPads—its first-ever iPads, getting it fully on board with Apple’s entire device lineup—but it plans to make them more affordable to acquire and to use. Americans have bought […]

—New iPad Air—Apple Mini with Retina display—New MacBook Pro—New Mac Pro— OS Mavericks Now available—Improvements to Garage Band, iWork, Keynote and More Apple’s Oct. 22 San Francisco event, at which it was widely expected to introduce new iPads, included not only the introduction of an iPad Air and an iPad Mini with Retina display, but […]

At Nokia’s Oct. 22 Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi, Nokia showed it’s serious about delivering what the world (if Samsung sales are a measure) says it wants: thin, light devices with giant displays. It introduced the Lumia 1520 and Lumia 1320—smartphones with 6-inch displays—alongside three new Asha phones for developing markets and a 10.1-inch […]

At Nokia World, in Abu Dhabi Oct. 22—just hours before an event at which Apple is expected to refresh its iPad line—Nokia jumped back into the tablet market with the introduction of the Lumia 2520, its first Windows-running tablet. It’s a device that all crossed fingers in Helsinki will be hoping can dramatically outperform Microsoft’s […]

Chinese telecom firm Huawei continues to try to clear its name and compete as a respected vendor in the worldwide market, after the U.S. House Intelligence Committee last October warned that Huawei poses a security risk. The Committee advised U.S. businesses involved in critical infrastructure, such as financial and utilities, not to use components from […]

AT&T launched Aio Wireless in May and made the prepaid brand available nationwide in September. But if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approves AT&T’s bid to buy prepaid carrier Leap Wireless, AT&T plans to scrap Aio, folding its efforts and customers into Leap’s Cricket brand. AT&T reiterated its plans in an Aug. 20 letter to […]

T-Mobile has shot back at rival Verizon Communications, undoing assertions the latter made in a Sept. 18 letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and discrediting the report Verizon submitted, calling it rich with “erroneous assumptions” and suggesting that its author, a former FCC chief economist and a professor of economics at Duke University, has […]

Lenovo, the world’s top-selling PC maker, is among the companies now considering a bid for all or part of the beleaguered BlackBerry. The China-based Lenovo signed a nondisclosure deal to examine BlackBerry’s books, Reuters reported Oct. 17, citing a source familiar with the matter. Lenovo, known in the West solely as a PC maker, is […]

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, with CFO Ken Goldman, shared the results of the company’s 2013 third quarter on Oct. 15, again via a livestream from Yahoo’s Sunnyvale, Calif., studio. The primary financial takeaways were that revenue was $1.1 billion, essentially flat from a year ago, while earnings fell to 34 cents a share, from 35 […]

Masayoshi Son, the billionaire CEO behind telecom giant Softbank, is reportedly on a buying spree and now eyeing Brightstar, a mobile phone distributor that works with device manufacturers, wireless operators and retailers. While founded and based in the United States, Brightstar says it has a presence in 50 countries. The pair are currently “in talks,” […]

Verizon Communications delivered better-than-expected third-quarter 2013 results Oct. 17, announcing that its wireless division, despite competing in a market that scrappier, smaller rivals (most prominently T-Mobile) have made increasingly competitive and fast-evolving, added 1.1 million net retail connections, 927,000 of which were postpaid retail customers (or more plainly, are on two-year contracts). Verizon Wireless sold […]

Amazon Fire HDX Is Least Repairable Kindle to Date: iFixit By Michelle Maisto The Kindle Fire HDX Is Amazon’s Holiday Entry Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire HDX Sept. 25 and will begin shipping it Oct. 18. The HDX will soon have plenty of additional competition, with Apple set to introduce new iPads Oct. 22, Microsoft […]