Michelle Maisto

A Much Better Touch-Screen RIM CEO Thorsten Heins has told eWEEK that RIM has invested considerably in its touch-screen technology, which in the past has been criticized. “We’ve spent a lot of innovation on the full-touch virtual keypad,” he said. “That was huge for us. We want the typing experience to get at least as […]

Lenovo officials are backpedaling from reports that they are considering acquiring a part or all of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion. Lenovo Chief Financial Officer Wong Wai Ming, speaking with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last week, offered an answer he apparently intended to be a rote, nonanswer, but which Bloomberg […]

Marissa Mayer has intrigued the mobile industry and beyond since, in July 2012, she became Yahoo’s fifth CEO in four years (while seven months pregnant—a detail that’s no small part of the intrigue). In November she lit up parent forums when, at a Fortune event, she called the baby “easy” and the job “fun.” Which […]

Smartphone owners wanting to unlock their devices will need to do it quickly. As of Jan. 26, the practice will become illegal. On Oct. 26, 2012, the Library of Congress ruled on a prohibition to circumvent copyright protection systems—systems that enable a phone to run on only the network of the carrier that sold it—as […]

PC maker Lenovo is looking to make an acquisition, and BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion is among the companies it is considering. “We are looking at all opportunities—RIM and many others,” Lenovo CFO Wong Wai Ming told Bloomberg during a Jan. 23 interview at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Lenovo has $3.6 billion […]

Apple, a day after announcing record quarterly revenues, is celebrating the anniversary of the device that started it all. “On January 24, 1984, Steve [Jobs] introduced the first Macintosh right here at a shareholder meeting in Cupertino,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts Jan. 23, opening the earnings call for Apple’s fiscal 2013 first quarter. […]

Nokia officials tipped off investors early that the company’s Jan. 24 earnings announcement would be a positive one, and indeed it finished the fourth quarter, as well as the full year 2012, in the black. “We are very encouraged that Nokia’s execution against our business strategy has begun to translate into results,” CEO Stephen Elop […]

When Nokia introduced the photo-fabulous, Symbian-running 808 PureView smartphone at the 2012 Mobile World Congress show, officials promised to bring the device’s advanced camera technology to the company’s other lines. Later this year, Nokia will make good on that promise with the delivery of a Windows Phone 8–running smartphone with an 808 PureView-like sensor, The […]

The Federal Communications Commission, ahead of 2014 spectrum auctions highly anticipated by the wireless industry, is expected to focus in 2013 on creating options for a faster Internet. The government agency needs to figure out not only how to free up underused spectrum for more efficient use by mobile broadband providers, but whether to set […]

RIM CEO Thorsten Heins, days ahead of the company’s long-awaited reveal of its BlackBerry 10 platform and new smartphones, spoke with German newspaper Die Welt about RIM’s current position and its prospects for the future, which could include selling its hardware unit. RIM’s future will be largely determined by the world’s response to its new […]

Research In Motion continues to ready its customers and the world for its long-awaited BlackBerry 10 platform. A week ahead of BlackBerry 10’s planned Jan. 30 unveiling, RIM made its new Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) product, BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10, available for download. In a Jan. 23 statement, RIM said the new service “reinvents BlackBerry […]

AT&T has been in search of wireless assets to acquire since federal regulators denied its 2011 bid to purchase T-Mobile. On Jan. 22 it announced it has made a deal to purchase the Alltel brand from Atlantic Tele-Network Inc. (ATNI) for $780 million in cash. The deal includes Alltel’s licenses, network assets, retail stores and […]