Michelle Maisto

Samsung has taken on Apple and come to dominate the high-end smartphone market. Now, it’s more aggressively going after classic Nokia territory, with the introduction of the Rex 90, Rex 80, Rex 70 and Rex 60—four new feature phones for what Samsung President JK Shin called “the world’s fastest-growing markets.” “Rex devices are designed to […]

Microsoft Surface Pro The Microsoft Surface Pro went on sale Feb. 9, trailing months behind its less-robust and more-criticized—though easier to repair—sister device, the Surface RT. Packing a PC-like experience into its lightweight frame, the Surface Pro starts at $899. Keep Out The iFixit teardown team encountered an incredible amount of adhesive keeping the screen […]

Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet is in many ways an improvement on its less-expensive and less robust predecessor, the Surface RT. But when it comes to repairing the Surface Pro, there’s nothing but room for improvement, iFixit reported after a Feb. 13 teardown. The repair-focused tech site has taken tablet market leader Apple to task for […]

As Nokia works to court developing markets with its new Asha 310, one of the least-expensive dual-SIM smartphones ever made, its former-brand Vertu is working to woo those on the far opposite end of the user spectrum. Its newest smartphone, the Vertu TI, retails for about $10,500. The TI is constructed of Grade 5 titanium, […]

When BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, a year on the job, introduced the BlackBerry Z10 and its longtime-coming new platform, BlackBerry 10, at a New York City event Jan. 30, former Research In Motion founder and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis was sitting front and center. “Thank you so much for guiding us into the future,” Heins told […]

BlackBerry, with its Jan. 30 introduction of the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone and BlackBerry 10 mobile platform, has been looking to make a new name for itself—aside from its official name change from Research In Motion to BlackBerry. According to new data from BrandIndex, the Canadian phone maker’s efforts are working. BlackBerry is currently enjoying its […]

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, at a Feb. 12 Goldman Sachs conference in San Francisco, sat for a second interview during which she discussed how she plans to revive Yahoo. Keys to her strategy, she said, will be to focus on fewer but more key mobile apps, an email solution that outdoes the competition’s, and increasing […]

Verizon Wireless, AT&T and other leading wireless network operators have been racing to expand their Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks, in an investment that a new Juniper Research report says will heartily pay off down the line. By 2017, Juniper expects 4G LTE service revenues to exceed $340 billion, representing 31 percent of total service […]

President Obama, ahead of his State of the Union address Feb. 12, signed an executive order that calls on the owners and operators of critical U.S. infrastructure to “improve cyber-security information sharing and collaboratively develop and implement risk-based standards.” The order also called on the Department of Homeland Security to recommend ways to mitigate security […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook, at a Goldman Sachs conference Feb. 12, talked around the topic of Apple’s plans to make a lower-cost smartphone for developing markets like China; addressed the controversial issue of the iPhone’s screen size; expounded on what he’s most proud of about his first year as CEO; and dismissed the lawsuit filed […]

The very excellent Droid DNA by HTC has not been without its bugs and hassles. But soon, for the first time since Verizon Wireless began selling the smartphone, users will have the option of updating the software—and ditching those bugs. That said, users shouldn’t get their hopes too high and expect that the long-coming update […]

Enterprise-sanctioned app stores, for computer and mobile device applications, are expected to become more prevalent. By 2017, 25 percent of enterprises will have their own app stores, research firm Gartner said in a Feb. 12 report. The success of these stores, however, will depend on several less-certain factors. Private app stores offer enterprises greater security, […]