Michelle Maisto

AT&T today launched Aio Wireless (pronounced A-O), a new wireless brand for “customers interested in a first-class wireless experience at a value price, without an annual contract.” Aio launched today with stores in Houston, Tampa and Orlando and plans to roll out to multiple markets in the United States over the next year. “We talked […]

The 3D printing market is expected to see sales reach $8.4 billion in 2025, up from $777 million in 2012, according to an April report from Lux Research, which expects the automotive, aerospace and medical industries to comprise an 84 percent share of the market. But as the technology and its capabilities are more deeply […]

As Sprint moves forward with the $20.1 billion deal it struck with Japanese wireless carrier Softbank in October, it continues to consider the $25.5 billion merger offer made by Dish Network in April. In a May 8 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Sprint pointed to new research disputing that the Dish deal […]

Lexmark is making a new name for itself. Recognizing a need to evolve beyond its printing services business, it has purchased eight software companies since 2010 and is attacking the growing issue of “unstructured information”—digital content within an organization that’s valuable when needed but doesn’t otherwise have a clear home, like an ERP system. In […]

Smartphone reviews tend to stay on their respective subjects, so it’s been startling how many Samsung Galaxy S 4 reviewers have pulled readers aside to suggest they also check out the HTC One. This is a great and deserved compliment for HTC, which tends to make pretty excellent phones that too few people take notice […]

The HTC One Is Great, but Not Perfect for Everyone By Michelle Maisto The HTC One With BlinkFeed The HTC runs the Jelly Bean version of Android, with HTC’s Sense user interface running over it and a new home screen feature called BlinkFeed. HTC BlinkFeed “Pulling down” the BlinkFeed with a finger refreshes it. There’s […]

Nokia, now that it can no longer pretend the Nokia Lumia 928 doesn’t exist, has taken the next step in trickling out information about a smartphone it has yet to officially introduce. First, it has posted a photo of the 928 on its Website. An aside: It never outright calls the phone the 928, sticking […]

T-Mobile’s “Un-carrier” strategy and the addition of the Apple iPhone 5 to its smartphone portfolio are indeed helping to turn around the scrappy-but-struggling No. 4 carrier. Though not without some hiccups. T-Mobile added 579,000 net new customers during the first quarter and sold approximately 500,000 iPhones (it doesn’t share what percentage went to new customers, […]

The Nokia 928 lives. While Nokia CEO Stephen Elop has good naturedly feigned no knowledge of such a device, the rumors have been rampant, and now two ads confirm that the smartphone is on its way. A billboard featuring the 928 advertises that it boasts the “best low-light smartphone camera.” Cnet’s U.K. site posted a […]

Sony has introduced Vaio Fit, a new line of entry-level laptops that continues a new naming strategy for the company—its Windows 8-running devices include the Tap and the Duo—which has previously been partial to letters. Lest anyone think the letters are a thing of the past, Sony also announced updates to its T Series 15 […]

Dish Network continues to keep the question of whether Sprint will partner with Softbank or Dish increasingly interesting. Sprint and Japanese wireless carrier Softbank penned a deal in October that gave Sprint $20.1 billion in exchange for a 70 percent share of its business. In April, satellite-TV company Dish Network interrupted the deal in its […]

As fans of the BlackBerry QWERTY keyboard begin to get their hands on the slow-to-arrive BlackBerry Q10, images said to be leaked shots of the next BlackBerry 10–running smartphone have emerged, showing another option for the QWERTY crowd. Photos show all-red or all-black smartphones—said to be called the R10—with BlackBerry logos, a slightly different keyboard […]