Michelle Maisto

Dell is making its Studio One 19 desktop available to customers in the United States and Europe on April 28. The all-in-one computer had originally been released Japan in March.Studio One 19 nods to the stylings of the Apple iMac, with all its components fitted inside a slim, high-definition screen on brushed-aluminum legs. An on-screen […]

Apple who?Verizon Wireless, it now seems, is in talks with Microsoft to roll out a touch-screen, multimedia phone in early 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported April 28.The project, code-named Pink, is said to be an effort to challenge the Apple iPhone.Rumors of an iPhone on the Verizon Wireless network have been stirred before, and […]

Acer, the world’s third-largest computer maker, has cut growth forecasts for its netbook PCs, after coming up short on analyst expectations for the first quarter of 2009, Reuters is reporting.Acer reported a net profit of $60.3 million for the first quarter, a fall of 31 percent from a year earlier, and cut 2009 netbook forecast […]

Verizon Wireless is negotiating to offer two new Apple devices, one of which could be available as soon as this summer, Business Week is reporting.The first is a smaller, less expensive version of the iPhone – perhaps the “junior iPhone” first described by Kaufman Brothers analyst Shaw Wu, on April 8.The second device is a […]

First Look at HPs Low-Cost ProBook Laptop Lineup by Michelle Maisto No Title The HP ProBook 4510 (below) and 4515, which both have 15.6-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit high-definition displays, as well as the ProBook 4410 and 4415, which have 14-inch displays, are available in Glossy Noir or Merlot—the first time HP has offered color for a […]

Jon Peddie Research is predicting positive times ahead for graphics chip makers, such as Advanced Micro Devices, Intel and Nvidia, based on estimated graphics shipments and supplier market share for the first quarter of 2009. The research firm reports that in the third and fourth quarters of 2008, GPU (graphics processing units) orders dried up […]

Hewlett-Packard announced its ProBook laptop series April 28, a new line of business notebooks that strive to combine good looks, low pricing and professional-minded features that will appeal to cost-conscious users. The ProBooks feature high-definition LED backlit display screens and a new keyboard layout that’s said to be more spacious, spill-proof, and have raised keys […]

Samsung announced that its I7500, a new smartphone running the Google Android operating system, will be available in Europe this June.Following the T-Mobile G1 phone, new devices-including netbooks, a home phone and a tablet PC-running the open operating system have been widely anticipated.Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently remarked, “It looks like Android is going to […]

Verizon Communications announced that, despite a difficult economy and tightening consumer purse strings, its saw continued revenue and earnings growth in the first quarter of 2009. On April 27, the company announced first quarter 2009 total operating revenues of $26.6 billion, a growth of 11.6 percent compared to the first quarter of 2008. Verizon has […]

Aberdeen Group has released a new report regarding the trend of employee-purchased devices being brought into the enterprise. While IT managers have long fought the practice, for reasons of security, Aberdeen shows how these devices can be a “lower-cost path” to broader mobility.In the report, “More Mobility-Less Budget: Enterprise Strategies in the Current Economic Downturn,” […]