Michelle Maisto

BlackBerry users just got a few clicks closer to their favorite shows. Just in time for fall’s new television lineup is the TiVo for BlackBerry app, a free offering from Research In Motion’s BlackBerry App World storefront that lets TiVo users program their digital video recorder directly from their BlackBerry smartphones.According to Inside BlackBerry, the […]

Ericsson has introduced a new mobile broadband module, its fourth in 12 months. While the last, introduced, in June, put the focus on netbooks, this new module, the C3706w, looks to bring embedded, high-speed wireless connectivity to consumer electronics (CE) such as GPS navigators, e-book readers and media players. The CE module is one-third the […]

California-based American Industrial Systems has introduced two new models to its line of rugged touch-screen computers, or Rugged Panel PCs, which are designed for the challenges of outdoor use. The PCs are available in 8.4- and 10.4-inch designs, and with either an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor or an Intel Core 2 Duo. AIS offers […]

The iPhone OS 3.1, introduced during Apple’s recent San Francisco event, delivered new features aimed at pleasing both business users as well as consumers. But the new smartphone operating system brought along a few new glitches along with it. The new version was supposed to provide a better iTunes experience, a smoother synchronization between Voice […]

Dell announced on Sept. 21 that it has acquired Perot Systems, a transaction it values at approximately $3.9 billion. The Texas computer maker has been looking to expand beyond its core PC business, particularly into the enterprise arena, and the technology and services company – founded by two-time presidential hopeful Ross Perot – will help […]

Sprint has a 4G smartphone in the works, and it’s believed to run Google’s Android mobile operating system, be made by Samsung and debut in 2010, according to reporting from PC World. At the 4G World Conference in Chicago, Sprint Business Unit Vice President Todd Rowley confirmed to PC World that the carrier is indeed […]

Like rival Apple, Microsoft is supposed to be working on a tablet PC, Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet is reporting. According to her “sources,” J Allard, Microsoft’s chief experience officer, is leading the effort, which is now said to be part of something called “Alchemy Ventures,” along with an exec from Microsoft’s Surface computer team. […]

Google.com, Yahoo.com and MLB.com, the site of Major League Baseball, are the three top-performing mobile Web domains, according to a new study from the Yankee Group.Though there are 2 million mobile Web domains in use today, and 31 percent of phone owners browse the mobile Web at least once a month, the mobile Web experience […]

Though Palm’s Pre received positive reviews and saw initially strong sales, they were only enough to buoy, not rescue, the sinking phone maker. On Sept. 17, Palm reported total revenues of $68 million for the first quarter of fiscal year 2010, which was down from $366.9 million in the same period the previous year. Gross […]

Samsung grew its share of the global market for stand-alone applications processor chips in the second quarter of 2009, for which it has the Apple iPhone to thank, according to a Sept. 18 report from iSuppli.Texas Instruments continued to lead the market during the second quarter, though its market share fell from 27 percent in […]