Michelle Maisto

Microsoft is building steam toward the Oct. 6 release of the “Windows phones,” as it calls them, which will feature Microsoft’s newest mobile phone software, Windows Mobile 6.5. The software is said to offer users an improved, easy-to-use interface, better browsing capabilities and access to services, including My Phone backup and Microsoft’s soon-to-launch mobile applications […]

Amidst rumors of an Apple tablet PC, complete with supposed sightings and analyst remarks, the Cupertino computer maker has remained mum on the subject. Toshiba, however, has raced ahead to plant a flag in the ground, and on Sept. 3 introduced the JournE Touch, a 7-inch multimedia touch-screen tablet, or Mobile Internet Device (MID), that […]

AT&T has announced that it will finally begin offering Multimedia Messaging Service capability to iPhone users on Sept.25, a feature that carriers around the world have been offering but that AT&T has so far not provided for its eager U.S. customers.While this is cause for celebration among some iPhone users, for those in densely packed […]

Amidst the high-tech, high-priced items emerging from the Nokia World 09 show in Stuttgart, Germany-including new details on the Booklet 3G, as well as several new smartphones-it might have been easy to miss the Sept. 2 introduction of the Nokia Mural, a recession-priced flip phone that will arrive in the United States on the AT&T […]

Nokia World 09 Delivers Details on Booklet 3G Netbook, Nokia N97 Mini Smartphone Nokia World 09 played out in Stuttgart, Germany, starting Sept. 2. Like Nokia, its President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said, Nokia World is about “people – people like us, getting together, sharing and exploring ideas, creating and connecting. And, of course, having […]

The year 2009 marks the end of the reign of portable navigation devices such as the TomTom, researcher iSuppli reported Sept 1.While 2004 saw the PND market take off, 2009 marks the year that PND sales will begin to steady out, while GPS-equipped smartphones continue to rise. By 2014, iSuppli expects navigation-enabled smartphone use to […]

As promised, from Nokia World 09 in Stuttgart, Germany, Nokia has released specification details about the Booklet 3G netbook, the Finnish phonemaker’s first foray into the (financially) challenging world of PCs.“We have gone into this with our eyes wide open,” said Kai Oistamo, Nokia’s executive vice president of devices, when first introducing the mini laptop.One […]

From the Nokia World 09 show in Stuttgart, Germany, starting Sept. 2, Kai Oistamo, Nokia executive vice president of devices, offered an overview of the mobile offerings Nokia was introducing at the event.Oistamo prefaced the overview by remarking to a group of U.S. journalists that Nokia’s goal was to be the leading provider of mobile […]

Microsoft is revealing new details about its Windows Mobile 6.5 smartphones, set to debut worldwide on Oct. 6, as well as insight into its strategy for securing a larger portion of the smartphone market currently dominated by Apple’s iPhone and Research In Motion’s BlackBerry handsets.Options, apparently, will be the name of the game.On the Microsoft […]

Amazon.com will be the original landing site of the gScreen Spacebook 005, a dual-screen laptop developed by gScreen Computer.The Spacebook appears to be the first mainstream offering from the Anchorage, Alaska-based company, which began in 2003 with a focus on developing dual-screen laptops for filmmakers, photographers, CAD engineers, and video and graphics designers, and has […]