Michelle Maisto

Bodywell Chip The Bodywell Chip is designed to dramatically reduce a cell phone’s specific absorption rate (SAR), which is the amount of cell phone radiation that’s absorbed by a user. The chip has a sticky back and can be stuck to the backside of a phone or inside its back cover. Bodywell Effect EZ Technologies […]

T-Mobile isn’t only the “un-carrier” when it comes to courting consumers. On Feb. 12, it announced a new relationship with Mission Critical Wireless (MCW), a subsidiary of Digital Management (DMI), that will enable T-Mobile’s business customers to pair MCW’s around-the-clock help desk support and managed services with the MobileIron mobile-device-management (MDM) services currently in T-Mobile’s […]

Android devices are outselling Apple iPhones, and according to new data, consumers are more satisfied with their Google-powered devices. A study of nearly 94,000 U.S. mobile users found that the iPhone 5 ranked fifth in device satisfaction—behind four Android-running devices, according to OnDevice Research. Along with Android, the news is a win for Motorola. Its […]

T-Mobile said it was hurrying to be the first U.S. carrier to offer the BlackBerry Z10, but Solavei, the unusual contract-free carrier that pays its subscribers to bring new members on board, beat it out of the gate. Solavei announced Feb. 11 that subscribers can now order an unlocked BlackBerry 10 through GSM Nation for […]

NEW YORK — Cell phone radiation falls into a “better safe than sorry” zone, doctors and scientists argued during a Feb. 11 symposium here hosted by EZ Technologies, which is now selling the Bodywell Chip—a $30, roughly inch-square chip the thickness of a SIM card that consumers can peel the back off of and stick […]

Yahoo has signed a contextual advertising deal with Google, just as Microsoft launched a campaign to raise consumer awareness about the practices Google uses to make its contextual ads user-specific. Google ads will now appear on Yahoo properties and co-branded sites using Google’s AdSense for Content and AdMob services, and will receive a portion of […]

The European Commission published a cyber-security strategy and a proposed directive on network and information security (NIS) Feb. 7, which is likely to affect U.S. businesses with international operations. The directive is stricter than current U.S. regulations, which don’t require companies to publically disclose breaches unless identifying information, such as credit card or Social Security […]

T-Mobile has announced plans to offer only one of BlackBerry’s two recently introduced BlackBerry 10 smartphones, the Z10, but it wants to be the first U.S. carrier to do so. “The device is more stable than we anticipated,” Frank Sickinger, head of business sales at T-Mobile USA told Bloomberg, according to a Feb. 7 report. […]

Microsoft has revived its “Scroogled” ad campaign, this time as a means to promote Outlook.com, its Web-based email service. Videos on Scroogled.com highlight Google’s practice of scanning each email and using keywords to help determine which ads to target at a user. “Email between a husband and wife, or two best friends, should be personal,” […]

Global smartphone sales during 2012’s fourth quarter told several tales, according to Feb. 7 figures from Canalys. Android was on 34 percent of the 438.1 million mobile phones that shipped during the quarter and, perhaps more impressively, on 69.2 percent of all the smartphones. Samsung, aggressively dominating Android handset sales, grew 78 percent year over […]

BlackBerry has updated its free BlackBerry Bridge application so that users can connect the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to its new BlackBerry 10–running smartphones, the BlackBerry Z10 and the still-weeks-away Q10. The PlayBook’s OS and BlackBerry 10 have their foundations in the QNX software that Research In Motion—as it was known before the Jan. 30 announcement […]

Falling PC sales in 2012 have been attributed to more than just a weak global economy. NPD Group, in a new report, backs up this idea, offering figures on the popular online activities that have migrated from computers to tablets and smartphones. More than 37 percent of consumers surveyed for NPD’s “Application and Convergence Report” […]