Michelle Maisto

During a July 27 Verizon Wireless conference call with analysts and media, intended for the carrier to share its revenue results for the second quarter of 2009, Verizon’s president and chief operating officer, Denny Strigl, said Verizon will offer the Palm Pre in early 2010.During a question-and-answer period, analysts asked Strigl and Verizon Chief Financial […]

Toshiba is now selling a pair of 3.5-inch external hard disk drives that offer 640GB or 1TB of data storage. These configurations, Toshiba said, are what the market has been clamoring for in terms of storage.“We really got into external hard drive business about 18 months ago, but it wasn’t until the last 12 months […]

Verizon Wireless announced it is remaining resilient, despite a challenging economy, and on July 27 announced total operating revenues of $26.9 billion for the second quarter of fiscal year 2009, an increase of 11 percent from the same quarter a year earlier.Diluted earnings per share for the second quarter were 52 cents, compared with 66 […]

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse, speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference on July 24, said the nation’s third-largest carrier would offer a mobile device running the Google Android operating system later in 2009, according to multiple sources. Reuters reported that Hesse didn’t say which vendor’s device Sprint plans to offer, but he did say he […]

T-Mobile announced it will be offering a BlackBerry Curve this summer-the 8520 smartphone.The Curve 8520, like the BlackBerry Tour, is a quad-band world phone, offering support for EDGE/GPRS/GSM 850/900/1,800/1,900MHz networks, which means voice and data coverage are likely to be available just about wherever your travels take you.In addition to 3G coverage, built-in Wi-Fi 802.11b/g […]

T-Mobile is about to double its number of retail partner locations, thanks to a new agreement with RadioShack.RadioShack announced on July 23 that the retail agreement will bring T-Mobile products and services to more than 4,000 RadioShack locations later this summer, including handsets such as the myTouch 3G, which runs the Google Android operating system.“Through […]

While the global economy remains stagnant, 269 million mobile handsets were shipped in the second quarter of 2009, according to ABI Research. The figure bodes well for the second half of 2009, according to Jake Saunders, ABI Research’s vice president of forecasting.“Shipments should build sequentially in a constructive manner with [the fourth quarter of 2009] […]

Verizon Wireless, offering a taste of what’s to come during its July 27 financial quarterly results call, announced on July 24 that its customer base grew by 1.1 million in the second quarter of 2009, for a total of 87.7 million customers.In a statement on the pending performance announcement, the carrier added that it had […]

Wireless services revenue, and for-now-exclusive rights to the Apple iPhone, again saved the day for AT&T, which reported results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2009 on July 22.“For the full second quarter, AT&T iPhone activations totaled more than 2.4 million,” said AT&T Chief Financial Officer Rick Lindner, on a conference call with investors […]

Mobile Internet use has “increased sharply,” according to a report from the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, based on data from an April 2009 survey. The survey additionally found that the growth rate at which African-Americans are accessing the mobile Internet is twice the national average. Among the 2,253 American adults surveyed, […]