Michelle Maisto

Google, looking to speed up the user’s search experience, has brought some desktop features to mobile devices. The company announced the changes in an April 16 post on its Inside Search blog. First is the addition of new quick links. Google offers the example of users wanting to quickly search Rotten Tomatoes for a movie […]

T-Mobile began selling the iPhone 5—its first-ever iPhone—April 12. And while it isn’t sharing sales numbers, it is admitting to having had one of its best-ever sales weekends. “We just had an outstanding weekend for our business—one of the top two or three best weekends ever for T-Mobile,” Jason Young, vice president of product management […]

The Apple iTunes Store, which will celebrate its 10th birthday April 28, continues to lead the market in digital music downloads. But it also continues to lose shares to rivals—a fact helping to fuel rumors of an upcoming Apple “iRadio” streaming music service. Apple controlled a 63 percent share of the download market during the […]

The Samsung Galaxy S 4 will be available from seven carriers and several retailers this month, Samsung announced April 17, suggesting that the supply issues that plagued the Galaxy S III have been reconciled. Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Cricket and C Spire will sell the smartphone, along with Best Buy, Best Buy […]

Softbank’s $20.1 billion bid for a 70 percent stake in Sprint was viewed by many as a life preserver the struggling carrier could hardly afford to pass up. But given the new competition that Japan’s third-largest wireless carrier now faces in satellite TV provider Dish Network, it’s likely going to have to improve its offer […]

Malware attacks are increasing, getting smarter and targeting Google’s Android mobile operating system, according to a new report from NQ Mobile, a mobile security solutions provider that based the report on the findings of its Security Lab. Mobile malware threats increased by 163 percent in 2012, and 95 percent of all threats were targeted at […]

Verizon Wireless is the “strategic buyer” that this month made a discreet bid to acquire up to $1.5 billion worth of Clearwire spectrum, The Wall Street Journal reported April 15. Clearwire reported the bid in an April 12 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, writing that on April 8, it received an “unsolicited, […]

BlackBerry came out swinging in defense of its new Z10 smartphone, after an investment firm reported that the device is being returned at an extremely high rate. Investment firm Detwiler Fenton wrote in an April 11 research note that according to its checks, there has been an increase in Z10 returns “to the point where, […]

T-Mobile’s bid to buy MetroPCS is back on track. John Paulson, head of Paulson and Co., a hedge fund that’s MetroPCS’ largest shareholder, has announced that he’s pleased with changes to the terms of a deal that would merge MetroPCS, the nation’s fifth-largest wireless mobile carrier, with Deutsche Telekom-owned T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth-largest carrier. “While […]

T-Mobile today begins selling the Apple iPhone 5—its first-ever iPhone in a market largely controlled by the Apple device—while over at AT&T, the HTC First, otherwise known as “the Facebook phone,” is now available. T-Mobile and HTC each badly need for the phones to be difference-makers. T-Mobile has put itself on a track for a […]

Sprint has begun rolling out an Android update to users of the Samsung Galaxy Victory—the first Long Term Evolution (LTE)-enabled phone on the Virgin Mobile network. Virgin Mobile began selling the Victory Feb. 25, with Android 4.1, a flavor of “Jelly Bean,” on board. Sprint’s April 11 news of an update is to Android 4.1.2—a […]

Interest in Apple’s plans to move into the wearable devices market has curious minds linking together what breadcrumbs Apple has let fall behind it. Insider Monkey has proposed that Apple might be working on a Google Glass competitor that combines the technology described in the interactive augmented reality (AR) patent Apple won in March with […]