Michelle Maisto

Mobile handset shipments exceeded expectations for the first quarter of 2009, with Samsung, LG Electronics and BlackBerry maker Research In Motion leading the industry, according to an ABI Research report.In a pleasant surprise for an industry that appeared to have been battered by the U.S. recession, handset vendors shipped 258 million units worldwide by the […]

Apple appears to have recently cut a little more than 10 percent of its full-time retail employees, according to a filing recently made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.As of Dec. 27, 2008, Apple had 15,600 “full-time equivalent employees,” but as of March 28 the number was down to 14,000 full-time retail store employees.Apples’ […]

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) formally adopted the Bluetooth Core Specification Version 3.0 High Speed (HS) – or, Bluetooth 3.0 – during its All Hands Meeting in Tokyo on April 22. The long-awaited Bluetooth 3.0 hikes up transfer speeds from 3Mbps to 23Mbps, through the use of the 802.11 radio protocol. The connection is […]

Intel is looking to bolster the use of its Anti-Theft technology that is now part of its Centrino Pro mobile platform with a commissioned study on notebook security that finds a lost or stolen laptop can cost a business between $50,000 and $1 million in expenses.Based on the study of 138 lost laptop cases, the […]

Advanced Micro Devices has launched an update to it Dragon platform, along with an addition to its Phenom II X4 family of gaming chips – the 955 Black Edition processor – which AMD is calling its fastest quad-core processor yet. The AMD Phenom X4 955 has a clock speed of 3.2GHz, an HT link of […]

A new green mobile phone study from Strategy Analytics has good news for manufacturers: Eco-minded consumers are willing to pay a premium for Earth-friendly mobile phones, as long as the devices are feature-rich and the intentions behind them are sincere.Strategy Analytics surveyed 2,818 wireless device owners in the United States and Western Europe about their […]

Dell, Hewlett-Packard and IBM are among nine companies IDC has recognized as meeting its Green Recycling and Asset Disposal for the Enterprise-or, G.R.A.D.E-certification. GE Capital, Redemtech, Intechra, Converge, Insight Enterprises and TechTurn complete the list.The research company recognized that thousands of companies were involved in various aspects of the collection, treatment and marketing of retired […]

Nvidia says that its Quadro FX 4800 professional graphics card for Apple Mac Pro users is coming in May.Nvidia first introduced its new Quadro GPUs March 30. That announcement from Nvidia included three additions to the Quadro NVS family and six additions to the FX line, including the FX 4800.In addition to that announcement, Apple […]

Samsung has introduced a new hard disk drive it’s calling “rugged.”The Spinpoint M7 500GB hard drive measures 2.5 inches and features 250GB of data storage per platter. It has a shock tolerance of 400 G/2ms and a rugged base and cover design, meeting what Samsung says is a call from customers for better data protection […]

With the continuing recession negating its efforts to return to profitability, Advanced Micro Devices reported that it sustained a net loss of $416 million for its 2009 first quarter on revenue of $1.177 billion. But AMD CEO Dirk Meyer tried to sound upbeat as he discussed the quarterly results during an April 21 conference call […]