Michelle Maisto

Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a television interview with CNBC about Apple’s newest partnership with IBM, said, “It’s profound. It’s historic. It’s landmark.” Announced July 15, the deal involves the pair creating more than 100 industry-specific enterprise applications; IBM getting to put the big-data know-how and enterprise-class solutions that it’s known for on some of […]

Today marks the closure of an added 60-day window during which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been collecting public comments on the so-called “net neutrality” rules. In January, a U.S. District Court dismissed the FCC’s ability to enforce net neutrality—an FCC guiding principle that all traffic on the Internet should be treated equally. Since […]

Samsung has temporarily suspended business with Dongguan Shinyang Electronics, a supplier factory that China Labor Watch (CLW) accused July 9 of hiring children to make Samsung devices. “It is unfortunate that the allegation surfaced despite Samsung’s efforts to prevent child labor at its suppliers,” the Galaxy device maker wrote in a July 14 blog post. […]

Samsung’s Android-running Galaxy devices have helped make it the world’s top-selling smartphone maker. But in what could easily be interpreted as its latest move to put space between itself and Android-maker Google, Samsung has introduced Galaxy Apps, an online app store that Galaxy device users can turn to instead of Google Play. Samsung introduced the […]

Apple has responded to allegations that a Frequent Locations feature on the iPhone could pose a security threat, as Chinese broadcaster CCTV told viewers in a program last week. “We are strongly committed to giving our customers clear and transparent notice, choice and control over their information, and we believe our products do this in […]

The rumor that Apple’s iPhone 6 smartphones will feature sapphire glass displays is seeming more likely. Marques Brownlee, an eloquent, young YouTube blogger (“vlogger”) who reports from what seems to be his bedroom, recently posted a video of himself holding what he said is the front glass of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 “straight off the […]

T-Mobile and Capitol Hill have recently interacted in two notable ways. First, in a proactive fashion more typical of the so-called “Un-carrier,” T-Mobile called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to spell out exactly what qualifies as “commercially reasonable”—the FCC’s language in its Data Roaming Order—regarding data roaming agreements. And second, this time on the […]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint against Amazon.com for its practices regarding in-app purchases in applications targeted at children. The FTC filed a similar complaint against Apple last year (after which Apple suggested the FTC also take a look at Google’s practices.) In January, Apple and the FTC reached an agreement, and […]

A Look at Who Will Decide AT&T-DirectTV, Comcast-Time Warner Mergers by Michelle Maisto Jonathan Sallet, FCC General Counsel Jonathan Sallet has been a partner at three law firms, served as chief policy counsel for the telecom MCI and was the director of the Office of Policy & Strategic Planning for the Department of Commerce. Speaking […]

Chinese state media has labeled the Apple iPhone a threat to national security, Reuters reported June 11. In a television report, state-owned broadcaster CCTV said the iPhone’s Frequent Locations feature could reveal too much about users, making it possible for them to be tracked. A researcher interviewed by CCTV remarked that the feature could even […]