Michelle Maisto

Sprint enjoyed its best-ever quarterly sales of the Apple iPhone during its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter, it announced Feb. 7. It sold 2.2 million iPhones during the quarter—38 percent of them to new customers—and 6.6 million during the full year 2012. The figure put Sprint “well ahead of its contractual obligations with Apple,” Sprint CEO […]

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop’s recent comments in Australia suggest he may not have been “mistranslated” after all back in January, as the Nokia PR machine had hurriedly suggested, following an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais in which Elop said that Nokia would consider using Google’s Android mobile operating system. The paper had quoted […]

LogMeIn has begun offering Cubby, following a beta offering of the cloud-based file sync and storage solution that was the most successful in the company’s history. Cubby allows users to turn any file on a Mac or PC into a “cubby” that can be accessed by iPhones, iPads, Android-running smartphones or other Macs or PCs […]

The numbers of mobile touch points in our lives are increasing—dramatically—and are only expected to rise. Verizon Wireless and AT&T offered evidence of this last summer when each introduced plans that changed the carriers’ basic business plans, focusing on deep pools of data from which multiple devices can sip, instead of the needs of individual […]

AT&T announced that it has signed agreements with T-Systems and Tata Communications that will enable it to offer its business customers improved global telepresence services. AT&T’s Telepresence Solution offers “multipoint, intercompany connectivity”—multiple people, on various devices can join a video conference featuring 1080p full-high-definition video. Officials said it offers a “unique ‘in-person’ experience” that has […]

BlackBerry 10 is still in its earliest days, and won’t face Samsung or Apple smartphones in the U.S. market for at least another month. But that hasn’t stopped the industry from wondering how it’s faring so far. BlackBerry hasn’t offered specifics, but after analyst reports of modest sales in some regions, it released a statement […]

At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in January, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Julius Genachowski discussed the need to free up wireless spectrum for not only mobile broadband networks but WiFi. Genachowski said that WiFi was in something of a traffic jam, and the FCC was hopeful that it could open up the 5GHz spectrum […]

The bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend has only just begun, according to a “Mobile Workforce Adoption Trends” report from research firm Forrester. Just begun, that is, if one defines BYOD as employees choosing the devices they use for work. For those who instead define BYOD as employees paying for their devices, said the Feb. 4 report, “then […]

As T-Mobile, with its recent acquisition MetroPCS, moves ahead with its plans to aggressively pursue prepaid subscribers and what it calls the “value market,” it has a growing competitor in Solavei, a somewhat new and definitely unusual prepaid carrier that operates as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) on T-Mobile’s 4G network. Solavei debuted in […]

The BlackBerry Z10 is the first smartphone to run BlackBerry 10, the mobile operating system that BlackBerry is counting on to make it, once again, a top-selling brand. The Z10, with its button-free facade, is dominated by a 4.2-inch touch-screen that’s more pixel-rich than the Apple iPhone’s Retina display. And while it won’t win any […]

AT&T’s business plan depends on connecting devices to its Mobile Share plans, and it’s now making it easier, and potentially less expensive, for consumers to do that. The carrier is now offering the AT&T Unite, a Sierra Wireless 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile hotspot, for $0.99 with a two-year contract. A Liberate 4G mobile […]

BlackBerry Z10 The Z10 features a 4.2-inch touch display and a button-free front facade. It’s thin enough—as thin as the iPhone 5—and attractive enough. The front glass is slick, but the texture on the back makes it comfortable to hold and feel secure in the hand. It looks neither cutting-edge nor out-of-date. It’s a perfectly […]