Michelle Maisto

Apple iPhone users reported the highest degree of satisfaction among smartphone users, followed by users of LG Electronics smartphones, according to a new report from J.D. Power and Associates. Those results are based on J.D. Power’s 2009 Wireless Consumer Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study – Volume 1.In a similar J.D. Power study that focused on traditional […]

Research In Motion has announced, along with other news coming on the eve of its Wireless Enterprise Symposium, in Orlando, Fla., a new version of its BlackBerry Mobile Voice System Server, optimized for use with Cisco Systems’ Unified Communications Manager, version 6.1 or later. This version of the BlackBerry Mobile Voice System Server offers a […]

Asustek plans to launch an 11.6-inch version of its Eee PC netbook later this month, DigiTimes is reporting. The 11.6-inch netbook is expected to account for 30 percent of Asustek’s total shipments. The 10-inch model, the paper reports, will still be considered the mainstream specification for 2009 and will account for 50 percent of the […]

Research In Motion and Hewlett-Packard have announced a “strategic alliance” in which they’ll together deliver a portfolio of mobile enterprise products custom built for RIM’s BlackBerry smartphones and platform. Leading into RIM’s Wireless Enterprise Symposium, which starts May 5 in Orlando, Fla., RIM and HP introduced two of the new mobile enterprise products, CloudPrint and […]

Palm is reportedly working on a follow-up to its soon-to-be released Pre smartphone called the “Pixie,” which some suggest is a smaller version of the new handset that could further challenge the Apple iPhone. The Washington Post is one of several publications that are reporting that the Palm Pixie will be a candy bar-style phone, […]

Not even Apple is immune to the effects of a limping economy.In a move designed to help boost market share, Apple is expected to soon drop the prices on its popular iMac and 13-inch MacBook, AppleInsider is reporting, citing “people who’ve proven extremely reliable in predicting Apple’s future business directions.”AppleInsider reports the move isn’t so […]

Global shipments of netbooks increased by an eye-popping 2,424 percent in 2008 and shipments are expected to jump 68.5 percent in 2009, reports market research group iSuppli.But as economic conditions improve into 2010 and beyond, the research group notes in an an April 30 report, a healthier economy will stunt the currently growing netbook market.“People […]

The Palm Pre smartphone has been widely referred to as an “iPhone killer,” but research group iSuppli has performed a virtual teardown of the Pre to see what it’s literally made of and offer a preliminary cost analysis.The Pre, which Palm is expected to debut in May or June-though some speculated an arrival as early […]

Worldwide handset shipments plunged 13 percent in the first three months of 2009-from 282 million handsets shipped in the first quarter of 2008 to 245 million units in the first quarter of this year-according to an April 30 Strategy Analytics report.“This was the fastest rate of annual decline in handset shipments since our records began,” […]

Microsoft officially responded to reports that it was developing a touch-screen, multimedia-phone-code-named Pink-with Verizon Wireless.“Microsoft is not going into the phone hardware business,” John Starkweather, Microsoft’s director of social marketing and mobile experiences, wrote in a statement.Distracting attentions from the possibility of two new Apple devices debuting on the Verizon Wireless network, the Wall Street […]