Michelle Maisto

Samsung’s Super-thin Galaxy Tab S Fit for the Enterprise by Michelle Maisto Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Tab S Ryan Bidan, senior director for Samsung Telecommunications America, took to a stage at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where he said such luminaries as Aretha Franklin have performed, to introduce something also pretty luminous, the Galaxy Tab […]

Samsung has introduced the Galaxy Tab S, a tablet and new flagship device with which it said it is “proudly putting our flag in the ground.” That declaration of victory comes largely thanks to the Tab S’s display. While Apple’s iPads feature LED displays, the Tab S has a Super AMOLED—the same technology used on […]

Samsung has introduced the Galaxy Tab S with the hope that it will be an enterprise favorite. The tablet is the “thinnest in the industry,” per Samsung, ships with Samsung’s Knox security system out of the box and is an absolute looker. It will come in 8.4- and 10.5-inch versions, in white and in gold—a […]

When Google launched Android, Huawei was the first company to embrace it, Zhiqiang Xu, the new president of Huawei Device USA, told journalists at a June 3 event. “I met with [Google executive] Andy Rubin several times to get the project done,” Xu added. The detail was a way of making clear that while Huawei […]

Apple, with HealthKit, has proposed a way to offer consumers more complete views of their health profiles by bringing together information from a variety of sources. Tanner Labs, with a new platform called Welbe, is now offering enterprises something similar. A native app with a colorful and modern design, Welbe brings together information from popular […]

If you’re an enterprise that still doesn’t support Apple devices, you’re part of a slim and shrinking minority, according to a new report from Dimensional Research. The report was sponsored by JAMF Software, which creates management software for the Apple platform. To answer a question of whether Apple devices are being managed as effectively and […]

That banks and other wealth managers are facing changing times was the clear takeaway from a panel discussion hosted by Verizon June 10. Although banks are among the organizations that consumers trust most, studies have shown, they’re being seriously threatened by a changing mobile landscape that has consumers shifting their brand allegiances and expecting significantly […]

Motorola has finally experienced some enthusiastic success around its Moto X smartphones. The phone maker—which Google is in the process of selling to Lenovo—is so confident that people who try out the Moto X will love it, that it announced an offer to build custom-ordered phones and ship them to users who can try them […]

Showing off the Asus PadFone X at a May press event, an Asus executive called it a “niche” product. As such, he acknowledged, the device—an unusual two-in-one hybrid made up of a 5-inch smartphone that slides into a tablet shell to power its 9-inch display—isn’t for everyone. This is really the most essential thing that […]

Apple will introduce a watchlike wearable device this fall that will be able to manage users’ biometric information, the Nikkei reported June 6, four days after Apple’s introduction of iOS 8 and its Health and HealthKit applications. The device will likely use a “curved organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touchscreen and collect health-related data, such as […]