Michelle Maisto

Research In Motion has hired Don Lindsay, a designer who spent time with both Apple and Microsoft. The news, which MoCo News reported April 9, provokes the question of whether RIM needs some Apple know-how to succeed in the consumer space. According to Lindsay’s LinkedIn profile, he will be creating a vice president of user […]

The HTC Touch Diamond, now available from Verizon Wireless, captures the slick, reflective looks of a modern city skyscraper in a 102mm x 51mm x 11.35mm brushed-metal package with faceted edges. It’s a looker.There are minimal keys on the face of this smartphone, which is all about its 2.76-inch touch screen with HTC’s intuitive TouchFLO […]

Two out of the three Apple iPhones in development “will likely see the light of day,” wrote Kaufman Brothers analyst Shaw Wu in an April 8 company note to investors.Apple itself isn’t revealing much, but Wu nonetheless had news and predictions to offer. The two new iPhones will allow users to choose between richer and […]

Trying economic times call for creative marketing measures.On April 15, Virgin Mobile will unveil a new unlimited prepaid calling plan available with “Pink Slip Protection,” which will waive up to three months’ of calling charges if the customer becomes unemployed.Pink Slip Protection is available with Virgin Mobile’s $49.99 Totally Unlimited plan, its Texter’s Delight program-also […]

Worldwide semiconductor revenue fell by more than 5 percent in 2008-this is the finding of Gartner’s annual semiconductor market share analysis. Revenue for 2008 totaled $255 billion, down $14.5 billion from 2007’s total of $269.5 billion.Intel led the industry, for the 17th consecutive year, with 13.3 percent market share, though it saw a revenue decline […]

Intel disclosed the first details of a new microprocessor, codenamed “Jasper Forest,” which is geared at further penetrating both the embedded market and the storage applications space. The Jasper Forest chip, which Intel introduced at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing April 8, is based on the Nehalem-EP (efficient performance) microarchitecture. In addition to announcing […]

On the one-year anniversary of Intel’s Atom processor launch, the company introduced “Moorestown,” the next generation of Intel’s Atom-based Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform, as well as two new Atom processors for MIDs.Speaking from the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing on April 8, Anand Chandrasekher, Intel senior vice president and general manager of the Ultra […]

Are older people out of touch?When a survey by ABI Research asked 1,015 U.S. mobile phone users which features they expected to find on a $50 phone, nearly half of the respondents in the 40 to 59 age bracket said they expected a touch-screen.The survey, conducted in February, aimed to discover which features people have […]

A BlackBerry Storm 2 with Wi-Fi will debut this September-if the rumors are to be believed. A September release would mean a less than one-year run for the original BlackBerry Storm, which was launched in November 2008.Lack of Wi-Fi in the original Storm, Research In Motion’s first touch-screen BlackBerry, was part of what prevented it […]

The Google Android operating system will be on three new phones from Samsung in 2009. One will launch outside the United States in June, and the other two will come afterward from different U.S. carriers, likely Sprint and T-Mobile.Samsung might have launched the phones sooner, Samsung Executive Vice President Won-Pyo Hong told Forbes, but, “Some […]