Michelle Maisto

Teardown Shows Apple iPhone 3G S Secrets No Title Apple said the iPhone 3G S would go on sale June 19, and European carrier Orange decided that meant 12:01 a.m. RapidRepair CEO Aaron Vronko headed to Paris to get his hands on one. No Title The Apple iPhone 3G S – the 16GB black model, […]

Smartphones to Give to Dad on Father’s Day 10 Smartphones to Give to Dad on Father’s Day No Title Apple iPhone 3G SWhere to begin? You get twice the storage, it’s faster, the battery lasts longer, the camera’s been improved, there are more pages for your apps and a new search functionality helps you find […]

The Apple iPhone 3G S officially went on sale June 19 at 7 a.m. ET in eight countries.In Paris, carrier Orange fudged the timing a bit, and put its iPhones on sale just after midnight, but in New York, approximately 250 stood in line outside the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue through the early morning […]

Intel announced it will be restructuring its brands – streamlining, if you prefer – with a campaign it succinctly describes on its Website as “Fewer Brands, Greater Impact.” “The fact of the matter is, we have a complex structure with too many platform brands, product names and product brands, and we’ve made things confusing for […]

With great pleasure, Research In Motion announced its first-quarter results for fiscal year 2010 on June 18. RIM saw revenue of $3.42 billion-a 53 percent increase from the first quarter of the previous year-and shipped approximately 7.8 million devices, it said.RIM was coming off a strong fourth quarter, in which it saw revenue of $3.46 […]

It seems we may indeed have seen the bottom of the global semiconductor market, and that revenues in the fourth quarter of 2009 are likely exceed those from the fourth quarter of 2008, researcher iSuppli is reporting.The view from the bottom, however, is that worldwide semiconductor revenue in the first quarter of 2009 declined $44.3 […]

T-Mobile is expected to introduce a new Google Android-powered HTC smartphone, to arrive later this summer, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.The phone will reportedly be called the myTouch 3G, and it will be only the second Android-based phone offered by a major U.S. carrier. The first is the T-Mobile G1, which proved a hit […]

Disney and netbook-leader Asus have teamed up to offer the Disney Netpal, a netbook for kids ages 6 to 12. It will be arriving in late July in two colors, naturally: Princess Pink and Magic Blue.Durability, parental controls and Disney-heavy themes are the device’s most notable features. The Netpal features a “reinforced mechanical design,” according […]

Regarding the Palm Pre, the technology critics at The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal were of a single mind. This week, however, it was the Apple iPhone 3G S that underwent their thorough testing, and the critics reported back less aligned.The Journal’s Walter Mossberg dutifully listed, and in many cases complimented, the […]

The Chinese government appears to be changing its stance on the ‘Green Dam Youth Escort’ filtering software, according to the Associated Press.AP has reported that, when reached by telephone, a member of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, who would not give his name, said the use of the Green Dam software was ‘not […]