Michelle Maisto

Clearwire’s board of directors has decided it very much likes the look of Dish Network’s $4.40-per-share takeover bid—much more than Sprint’s $3.40-per-share bid—and has decided to back the satellite television provider’s latest offer to merge. The board announced June 12 its “unanimous recommendation of the Special Committee consisting of independent, non-Sprint-affiliated directors” to accept Dish […]

Verizon Wireless and AT&T lobbyists are hosting a June 12 fundraiser for Sen. John Thune’s Heartland Values Political Action Committee, Bloomberg reported June 12. The PAC works to promote “limited government and low taxes,” “respect for families and faith” and “strong national defense.” While AT&T and Verizon may be interested in faith and families, they’re […]

Samsung introduced the Galaxy S 4 Zoom June 12, calling it “the only device you’ll ever need.” The combination high-end camera and smartphone was unveiled 12 weeks after Samsung introduced the Galaxy S 4, its latest flagship smartphone. Since then, Samsung has also introduced the Star, the Nemo, the Win, the Mega, the Core, the […]

It’s been said that Apple would introduce two new iPhones this year, a high-end model and a less-expensive version for emerging markets, and it’s been said that Apple would introduce them earlier than usual, to avoid giving Samsung another long summer during which to sell millions of flagship Galaxy S smartphones, unchallenged by a new […]

Apple’s iOS 7, iTunes Radio, MacBook Pros: What the Experts Say by Michelle Maisto iOS 7 Is an ‘Exciting New Beginning,’ Says Apple Everything from the fonts to the icons to the color palette and the way users work on an iPhone has been changed in iOS 7. The design changes have the effect of […]

Sprint has pushed its June 12 stockholder meeting to vote on a merger with Japanese wireless carrier Softbank until June 25, as Softbank has sweetened its proposal for Sprint shareholders. On June 10, the carriers announced that Softbank’s October 2012 offer of 70 percent of Sprint in exchange for $20.1 billion—$12.1 billion of which would […]

MakerBot 3D Printers Enable SMBs, Designers to Make the Future, Now by Michelle Maisto MakerBot’s New Sunset Park, Brooklyn, Factory MakerBot’s young, T-shirt-wearing staff makes the workroom of its new Brooklyn factory—which still smells of fresh paint—seem like the greatest-ever high-school science team production. The factory employs approximately 100 people. A Willy Wonka Factory for […]

Apple kicked off its 2013 World Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Francisco Moscone West conference center June 10 with, as the rumor mills had long foretold, the introduction of a streaming music service. Apple followers have been expecting such a service since the company purchased streaming site Lala back in 2009. And Apple […]

MakerBot, the Brooklyn-based (and Brooklyn-proud) creator of desktop 3D printers, cut the red ribbon on its new 55,000-square-foot facility in the waterfront-abutting neighborhood of Sunset Park on June 7. It’s a new factory inside an old factory. Or, as founder Bre Pettis said, before cutting the ribbon with a giant pair of MakerBot-made scissors, “It’s […]

Smartphone use is on the rise and has surpassed feature phone use, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project said in a June 5 report. According to Pew data, 61 percent of cell phone owners either said that their phone is a smartphone or that it runs a smartphone platform. Given that 91 […]

Apple’s lawyers, in court this week, are portraying Apple and five U.S. publishing giants as being very much at odds over the pricing of ebooks. The Department of Justice (DOJ), which brought an antitrust case against Apple last year, is determined to prove that Apple, before entering the ebook market in 2010 with the introduction […]

T-Mobile isn’t interested in barring AT&T from purchasing 600MHz spectrum licenses during the 2014 spectrum auctions—a business-altering, if not industry-changing, event that the mobile carriers have been pushing hard for and looking forward to for years. But that doesn’t mean AT&T should be able to buy up all that its money and power would allow, […]