Michelle Maisto

For Apple and Samsung, it seems the show will go on. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, who has been overseeing the ongoing patent battle between Apple and Samsung, last month expressed doubts about the need for a second trial for another suit that Apple had filed against Samsung in February. In a Jan. 29 order, […]

Amazon has applied to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to control 76 generic top-level domains (gLTDs)—the suffixes that follow a Web address—and the move has more-established publishing industry players furious. Among the gLTDs Amazon is hoping to own are .book, .read, .author and .mobile, Cnet pointed out last summer, adding that […]

Facebook users have sought to make their information more private, while sharing more data than ever, according to a report from Carnegie Mellon University. Researchers studied 5,076 Facebook accounts affiliated with the university between 2005, Facebook’s early days, and 2011, and found “three contrasting trends.” First, over the years, Facebook users exhibited “increasingly privacy-seeking behavior.” […]

Google-owned Motorola has begun laying off some 1,200 employees, or about 10 percent of its workforce. According to a March 8 report in The Wall Street Journal, the latest round of job cuts is part of a larger workforce-reduction plan announced after Google bought Motorola’s Mobility hardware unit last year. “These cuts are a continuation […]

The BlackBerry Z10 will arrive on the AT&T network March 22, Bloomberg reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. AT&T has not officially announced the date, and declined to offer comment, though “mid-March” has been the time frame that BlackBerry indicated the smartphone would arrive in the United States. At the BlackBerry Experience tour in […]

Nokia has stuck its nose, or rather its lawyers, into the ongoing legal battle between Samsung and Apple. Nokia filed an “amici curiae” brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit March 5 that said it supported Apple’s efforts to have a court order reversed and have certain Samsung smartphones banned. Nokia […]

Deutsche Telekom’s merger of its T-Mobile brand with MetroPCS was originally pitched to federal regulators as an opportunity for job growth. But a new report said T-Mobile is planning “significant” layoffs at its Bellevue, Wash., headquarters, beginning as soon as March 7. “Employees are expecting the cuts, which may affect more than 100 people in […]

Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann’s next job will be CEO of Ziggo, effective Jan. 1, 2014. Ziggo, a digital television brand in the Netherlands, announced last year that current CEO Bernard Dijkhuizen had plans to retire. On Dec. 20, 2012, Obermann announced plans to leave Deutsche Telekom after 16 years, seven in the role of […]

Samsung and Sharp have reached an agreement in which the Galaxy device maker will purchase a 3 percent stake in the struggling Japanese company for about $111 million. Sharp, notably, is a major supplier of mobile displays to Samsung rival Apple. Sharp, in a March 6 statement, said it has decided to issue new shares […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook met with Jimmy Iovine, hip-hop producer and CEO of Beats Electronics, in late February to discuss Beats’ “Project Daisy” music-subscription service. Reuters reported on the meeting March 6, giving fuel to rumors that Apple is looking to offer a streaming music service, in addition to its iTunes offering. Beats, which is […]

Microsoft’s failure to offer users in Europe a choice of browsers has resulted in a fine of $732 million from the European Commission. European regulators said Microsoft failed to comply with the terms of an antitrust settlement, The New York Times reported March 6. Microsoft agreed. “We take full responsibility for the technical error that […]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has given its approval to the proposed merger of T-Mobile USA, the nation’s fourth-largest carrier, with prepaid carrier MetroPCS, the nation’s fifth largest. “Deutsche Telekom has reached an important staging post at the approval process of the merger of its subsidiary T-Mobile USA and MetroPCS,” officials with Deutsche Telekom, […]