Michelle Maisto

Verizon Communications would like to change the current business model for pay-television. Instead of paying the media companies that own most television channels a fee based on how many homes Verizon provides a channel to, it would like to pay based on whether subscribers in those homes are actually watching, The Wall Street Journal reported […]

Lenovo took great pains in designing its newest ThinkPad, the T431. The computer maker undertook an extensive research initiative over nine months, across nine countries and in 11 languages. “It wasn’t just surveys,” Alysia Baker, Lenovo’s worldwide product marketing manager, told eWEEK. “It included focus groups and was a very iterative process, where we would […]

Samsung Introduces the Galaxy S 4 The Galaxy S 4 is the first Galaxy S device to be introduced on U.S. soil. At Radio City Music Hall in New York, Samsung gave the smartphone what it perhaps thought was a proper U.S. introduction: There was singing, tap dancing, a full orchestra. “Don’t get me started […]

Samsung, the world’s top-selling smartphone maker and leading Apple irritant, introduced the follow-up device to the first smartphone in recent memory to have outsold the iPhone. The Galaxy S 4 is small where it matters—it’s thinner and lighter than its predecessor—and bigger where it counts. The display is now 5 inches and holds as many […]

Samsung took its best swing at Apple on March 14, introducing the Galaxy S IV at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall. It was Samsung’s first Galaxy S phones to be unveiled in the United States—a key market for winning the lucrative high-end smartphone race. The S IV, as the rumors foretold, includes a 5-inch display, […]

BlackBerry today took another step toward remaining relevant in enterprises that support an increasing mixture of mobile platforms. By the end of June, BlackBerry will begin offering Secure Work Space for iOS and Android—a solution that enables companies to secure and separate work data from personal data, much like the BlackBerry Balance feature does on […]

The Federal Trade Commission is back to tackling the challenge of avoiding deception in advertising. The organization announced an update to its guidelines for online advertisers, titled “Dot-Com Disclosures,” which seeks to address the “dramatic changes” that have taken place online during the 11 years since its last guidelines were published. The new guidelines emphasize […]

Intel today delivered its 2012-2013 Annual Performance Report, offering insights into where the company is focusing its energies and assets, the fast-evolving ecosystems around mobility and what the changing company achieved in 2012. Broadly speaking, Intel said it embraced the consumerization of IT—in a way that increased employee productivity—grew its bring your own device (BYOD) […]

T-Mobile’s proposed merger with MetroPCS has received the approved of the Federal Communications Commission and, moreover, with a tone that couldn’t be further from the FCC’s response to 2011’s proposed joining of T-Mobile and AT&T. “With today’s approval, America’s mobile market continues to strengthen, moving toward robust competition and revitalized competitors. … Today’s action will […]

The Ultra-Rugged Kyocera Torque Sprint is now selling the LTE-enabled Kyocera Torque for $150, but with a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year unlimited service plan. Military-Spec Rugged Meets Android One of the greatest things about the Torque is that it’s fairly indestructible. It can withstand drops, temperature extremes, sand, dust and salt-fog, and […]

Samsung will unveil a Galaxy S 4 Thursday, March 14, during an evening event at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. While rival Apple’s strategy has been to acknowledge nothing until an executive is standing on a stage ready to hold up something, Samsung has instead been trying to walk a line between revealing […]

The Kyocera Torque, the first ultra-rugged 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) Android smartphone on the Sprint network, is not for everyone. But for those it suits—people who work in loud, dirty, or particularly hot or cold environments, like fisherman or truck drivers or bartenders at those center-of-the-pool resort cocktail bars, or people who can benefit […]