Michelle Maisto

Toot, toot. That would be Palm on its own horn, and why not-on June 30, the Palm WebOS blog announced that Palm has sold an estimated 370,000 Palm Pre smartphones and is churning 15,000 Pre units off the assembly line each day.Citing Barron’s and Charter Equity Research Principal Analyst Ed Snyder, in a June 30 […]

Acer seems to have a new desktop tower, the M5800-though you’d never guess it from the Acer Website, which is splashed with images of its Aspire One D250 netbook.Acer intends the M5800 for consumer home use, and it features a handsome brushed-metal exterior. Inside is a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Quad processor with 6MB of […]

Nokia is planning to launch an ARM-based netbook that runs the Google Android operating system, Gigaom is reporting, based on a research note from Lazard Capital Markets analyst Daniel Amir.Following models such as those from Verizon and AT&T, which subsidize netbooks much like they do smartphones, Amir reportedly expects Nokia to distribute the netbooks through […]

Drinking and driving is illegal, not to mention morally reprehensible and in no way advocated. Driving and texting, however, while still legal in some states and performed by many otherwise rational people, may be even more dangerous, atest by Car and Driver reveals.The magazine rented out an airport taxiway and then measured the reaction times […]

iSuppli’s latest teardown was of the Apple Mac Mini desktop computer.Tearing down and tallying up the components of the tiny cube-which measures just 2 inches high by 6.5 inches long and wide, and has a retail starting price of $599-iSuppli determined it has a bill of materials of $376.20. That number jumps to $387.14 when […]

Palm reported total revenues of $86.8 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009, which ended May 29. A June 25 statement additionally shared that gross profit was $20.1 million and gross margin was 23.1 percent.“The launch of Palm webOS and Palm Pre was a major milestone in Palm’s transformation; we have now officially […]

Gartner has good news for the PC industry. In a June 25 statement, the research firm predicts worldwide PC shipments will reach 274 million units in 2009, a decline of just 6 percent from 2008 shipments of 292 million units. Gartner now expects the market to post positive growth in the fourth quarter of 2009, […]

Apple beat Dell and HP in customer satisfaction ratings based on telephone-based tech support, according to a new study from Vocalabs, which spoke with 1,147 consumers immediately following their support calls.Of these consumers, 58 percent of Apple customers reported they were “very satisfied” with the call, versus 46 percent of Dell customers and 43 percent […]

The Palm Pre App Catalog has passed 1 million downloads, ad analytics company Medialets is reporting. On June 6, the day the Palm Pre went on sale, the Palm App Catalog offered just 18 applications but saw 93,435 downloads. Since then, the downloads and app numbers have been onward and upward, and Medialets has put […]

Dell, Toshiba, Gateway and HP Gear Up Laptops for Back to School Dell Inspiron 14 Dell imagines the Inspiron 14 moving from dorm room to classroom to study lounge, where its 14-inch high-definition screen and optional Blue-ray Disc drive will complement its Intel Centrino 2 processor, optional 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon 433HD Graphics Card and […]