Michelle Megna

MiFi might be the buzzworthy technology of the moment after the mobile wireless hotspot device landed the backing of Verizon and Sprint this month. But at least one wireless tech vendor is looking to top MiFi, with a new enhancement for smartphones that turns them into mobile Wi-Fi hotspots. As a result, mobile hotspot functionality […]

iPhone app users are a fickle lot. But they could be highly lucrative, too. A new study by mobile ad firm Greystripe found that users of iPhone applications spend about 9.6 minutes at a time with their apps, accessing them nearly 20 times before they’re abandoned. That exposure could prove lucrative for advertisers and developers […]

Bluetooth, the wireless technology most commonly known for its use in mobile phone headsets, is receiving a upgrade — enabling it to harness the speed of Wi-Fi to better adapt to users’ needs for high-speed transfers. The new version of the specification, dubbed “Bluetooth 3.0 + High Speed (HS),” is being announced today at a […]

AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson holds an iPhone while speaking at NXTcomm last year.Source: AT&T Breaking up is hard to do. But for AT&T and Apple, parting ways may be a prospect daunting enough to keep them together. That may be the cold reality behind negotiations with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) over the future of AT&T’s […]

Samsung is set to release three Android phones this year, two stateside and one abroad, as rivals gun for position in the smartphone market with rollouts planned for this year by Palm, HTC, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, and, it’s rumored, Apple. Samsung still isn’t releasing many details, though. A spokesperson told InternetNews.com that the […]

Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) is entering the netbook market with plans to sell 3G-equipped versions of the tiny laptops in its stores as early as next month. But observers warn that its pricing on service plans will be the deciding factor in whether it can unseat rival AT&T in the nascent carrier-netbook space. “Verizon Wireless […]

The number of mobile application users is set to quadruple in five years, according to new research from In-Stat. And while Apple’s iPhone is leading the charge, In-State says worldwide sales of open source-based smartphones are expected to be double that of devices based on Apple’s software over the same time period. The increase in […]

The economic meltdown is cooling even the white-hot cell phone market. Last week, two major research firms released sales forecasts for 2009 that calls for pain. IDCjust lowered its numbers for cell phone sales this year, and expects total mobile phone revenues to drop 8.3 percent in 2009, the first yearly dip since 2001. Additionally, […]

With all the interest around e-book readers like the Amazon Kindle and its new Apple iPhone app, it’s no wonder that the ubiquitous Research in Motion BlackBerry is also getting some attention, with the launch of the eReader Pro for the device. The free application, from Fictionwise’s eReader.com, works across a slew of models of […]

Google this week said it’s preparing to launch new services for mobile users, offering free U.S. calls, unified text messages and voicemail across numbers and integrated speech-to-text and search functionality. But the new Google Voice service also may be ringing alarm bells for the VoIP and mobile industry as well as privacy advocates. The upcoming […]