Michelle Maisto

Microsoft, like HTC, has an anti-Apple deal for you. Bring an old iPad 2, 3 or 4 into a Microsoft Store before Oct. 27 and receive a minimum $200 gift card toward the purchase of a Microsoft Surface RT or Surface Pro. The Surface Pro starts at $799 and the Surface RT, $349. Maybe it’s […]

Xerox, WDS Advise Mobile Carriers on Keeping Fickle Subscribers Loyal By Michelle Maisto Xerox Is Now a Services Company “What we do is handle a boatload of transactions that our customers would never like to have in the first place,” said David Ffoulkes-Jones, CEO of WDS. On the upside, customer care offers an opportunity to […]

HTC says it will pay $150 or more to owners of the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 who trade in their smartphones for the HTC One by Sept. 30. The Apple iPhone 5C—and the C, ahem, stands for colorful, not costly, as has been suggested—will be available for preorder tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 13. Along with […]

While Google-owned Motorola isn’t yet sharing how many Moto X smartphones it has sold, it is telling journalists that 100,000 of the smartphones are now leaving its Fort Worth, Texas, factory each week. As rival Apple was introducing its newest iPhones, Motorola invited in journalists for a tour of the Flextronics-owned factory, which currently employs […]

Apple’s inexpensive iPhone for the Chinese market isn’t so inexpensive after all. At a Sept. 10 event on its Cupertino, Calif., campus and a Sept. 11 event in Beijing, Apple introduced the iPhone 5C, a mild update to the iPhone 5 that’s a departure from Apple’s usual designs and the first iPhone intended—out of the […]

Verizon Communications has changed its position on how best to handle telephone service on Fire Island, the Long Island beach community that was last year ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. At a time when the major carriers are considering a shift away from the copper-based networks to Internet Protocol-based (IP) solutions, Sandy literally washed away much […]

Apple’s inclusion of Touch ID, a fingerprint-reading security feature built into the iPhone 5S’ home button, is expected to be a winner in the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) space and beyond. Enterprises will feel more confident trading BlackBerry handsets for iPhones, consumers will be pleased to forgo tapping in passcodes, and retailers will delight in making a […]

iPhone 5S, 5C Sport New Features, but No Big Secrets by Michelle Maisto Apple’s Intimate Sept. 10 Cupertino Event Apple usually introduces one new iPhone once a year, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Its decision to host this year’s event at its smaller, on-campus auditorium suggested there was less to show off, or […]

Apple, as anticipated, introduced two new iPhones—the colorful iPhone 5C and a flagship iPhone 5S—at a Sept. 10 press event on its Cupertino, Calif., campus. Both phones will be available Sept. 20, and the iPhone 5C can be preordered starting Sept. 13. The iPhone 5C, again as expected, looks nearly identical to the iPhone 5, […]

Galaxy Gear Sets a Low Bar for Apple Smartwatch by Michelle Maisto Smartwatch as Phablet Counterpart “Samsung implicitly recognizes that phablets have gotten so large that users actually need a second, smaller screen paired with their larger main phone,” Ken Hyers, a senior analyst with Strategy Analytics, told eWEEK. “That’s why Gear was launched [alongside] […]

Apple executives, at a Sept. 10 event at their Cupertino, Calif., campus, will show off their latest offerings, nearly a year to the day after introducing the iPhone 5, new iPod Touch and iPod Nano devices, and an update to iTunes. So many rumors have swirled and details been leaked about Apple’s plans that the […]

A federal judge showed Apple some leniency in a Sept. 6 ruling after the company was found guilty of conspiring with five U.S. publishers to drive up ebook prices. Judge Denise L. Cote of the Federal District Court in Manhattan granted the U.S. government oversight of all content-distribution deals negotiated by Apple, the Wall Street […]