Michelle Maisto

Nokia Lumia 1020 Dials Up the ‘Wow’ Factor by Michelle Maisto Nokia Lumia 1020 Shifts the Smartphone Focus Nokia has outdone itself with the camera technology in the Lumia 1020. So much so, it’s easy to think of it as a camera first and a phone second. Showing it off in New York July 11, […]

Nokia, fighting to reestablish itself as a leading smartphone brand and solidify the Windows Phone OS as the third major platform, today introduced the Lumia 1020. Given the demonstration Nokia provided during a July 11 event in New York City, the Lumia 1020 might best be described as a fantastic camera with a phone in […]

Lenovo has definitively overtaken Hewlett-Packard as the global leader in PC sales. Quarter after quarter, the Chinese PC maker has continued to press forward in a hurting industry—last quarter, it was the only top-five PC maker with a growth figure in the black—as the longtime industry giant has continued to lose its hold. During the […]

Lenovo, pushing the desktop form factor, has introduced four new products for enterprise customers. A new ThinkCentre M93p is “just the width of a golf ball,” according to Lenovo, a new Think Centre M93z all-in-one is “among the most powerful and energy efficient in the commercial space,” and ThinkCentre M83 and E93 desktops feature the […]

The aftermath of Superstorm Sandy has accelerated a situation that wireless advances have been nudging phone companies toward: the transition of the nation’s 100-year copper telephone networks to Internet Protocol-based (IP) systems. On Nov, 7, 2012, days after Sandy pummeled the coasts of New York, New Jersey and beyond, AT&T filed a petition asking the […]

T-Mobile filed a report with the FCC July 8, as part of its continued efforts to press the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to conduct its upcoming spectrum auctions with purchase limits in place. The purpose of the limits would be to prevent deep-pocketed Verizon Wireless and AT&T from walking away with the choicest offerings—in this […]

Sprint’s $21.6 billion transaction with Japanese carrier Softbank is expected to be completed July 10, it said in a July 8 statement and a document filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. On July 5, the deal received the final approval that it needed, from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which also gave its […]

Facebook is about to undergo a major change. The company announced July 8 that it’s readying to roll out the Graph Search function that it introduced in January and offered in beta form to “tens of millions” of users, who have already helped to improve it. Graph Search will roll out to everyone who uses […]

Verizon’s “mystery charges” problem may not be solved after all. Verizon paid out $78 million in 2010, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) found that the carrier had wrongly added Internet connection fees of $1.99—”mystery fees,” as they came to be known—to the statements of approximately 15 million customers over a stretch of three years. […]

Apple has made two big hires, making several rumored devices seem more likely. Apple CEO Tim Cook has lured away Paul Deneve from the high-fashion brand Yves St Laurent, Bloomberg reported July 3. Deneve was previously also CEO of Lanvin and Nina Ricci. Deneve will report directly to Cook and be a vice president, working […]

Motorola’s declared “return to boldness” will include the Moto X, and the day before Independence Day, the company took out full-page ads in four major U.S. newspapers to announce that the smartphone will also give users new freedoms. It’s “the first smartphone that you can design yourself. Because today you should have the freedom to […]

Firefox Enters the Mobile OS Market, Defying Current Conventions by Michelle Maisto Firefox OS Seeks to Disrupt the Platform Status Quo However excellent iOS and Android are, developers have to buy into one or the other, and when they do, “they’re pretty much tied to it,” said Mozilla’s Eich. Firefox “is an open ecosystem for […]