Judy Mottl

Heads up to all those who think Sprint isn’t serious about Android and the idea of open platform development. The number three wireless carrier is, even if the blogsphere seems bent on saying it’s not so. Last week Sprint [debuted](/mobility/article.php/3790081/Sprint+Takes+to+the+Open+Mobile+Road.htm) a brand-new open mobile platform called Titan. Yet that hasn’t squelched the chatter that Sprint […]

IBM plans to depose top Apple leaders in its legal quest to stop a former executive from jumping ship to Apple, according to filings in the case. Meanwhile, the former IBM executive is appealing a court injunction barring him from working at Apple while a court sorts through the legal battle IBM is waging to […]

EMC doesn’t want to be the next business intelligence vendor, but it does want to be the player companies tap when looking to wrap BI, data warehouse farms and storage infrastructures all together. In launching its new Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence/Analytics Competency Center on Thursday, EMC said it will provide application-specific solutions using partner technology from […]

Amazon.com is extending is Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to Europe, providing developers there with the same computing capabilities it says 440,000 U.S. developers now use — although only for Linux and Unix. The company said EC2, which enables developers to create, launch and add online cloud computing server instances via a Web interface, will begin […]

Sprint has launched a new open Java friendly mobile platform in a quest to push desktop and Web 2.0 features into handset applications and drive enriched device functionality. The Titan platform offers a standards-based Java environment for Sprint Windows Mobile devices. The third-place wireless carrier said it is the first of several new platforms to […]

A story this morning at [Forbes.com ](http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/09/sprint-nextel-telco-markets-equity-cx_ra_1209markets29.html?partner=yahootix) caught my eye as it has to do with Sprint, the number three wireless carrier struggling to stay in the race with AT&T and Verizon Wireless. The story notes that Sprint is closing call centers, and may give the impression that the move is primarily tied to the […]

Unified communications adoption remains at a snail’s pace and the latest deployment results aren’t likely to spur stronger growth any time soon. A new survey ranks a majority of UC projects as “average” in terms of benefits, and while the technology is getting a lot of buzz, just one in six enterprises has put UC […]

UPDATED: A $99 iPhone before the New Year? The nation’s top retailer, Walmart, is officially tight-lipped about the buzz that its shelves could be hosting a $99 4GB iPhone by the end of the month. But mobile device experts have plenty to say, and it’s all good. Published reports in the New York Post and […]

Just last month, we reported that Apple iPhone users hit the 200 million downloads mark during October, when they were able to choose from among 5,500 free and paid applications available at the App store. That was just five months after the storefront opened. Now, only 36 days later, those numbers have reached new heights: […]

AT&T (NYSE: T) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) want a New York court to dismiss a class-action suit claiming allegations about iPhone 3G problems don’t belong in a federal court and should be moved into an arbitration hearing. In their filings, both Apple and AT&T disputed the lawsuit’s charges that they misrepresented the device’s performance on […]

Research in Motion is making a $66 million dollar hostile bid to acquire security cryptography company Certicom Corp. The BlackBerry maker, which said it initiated talks in February 2007, is offering $1.50 per share in cash, representing a 76.5 percent premium over Certicom’s closing price on Dec. 2. It plans to present a formal offer […]

Apple just released a list of the top free and paid applications for the iPhone. It’s not surprising most are entertainment-focused. The iPhone, after all, was built for fun. Here’s a short list of what’s most popular — full list is [here](http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewCustomPage?name=pageiTunes2008_Apps). Top Free Include: **Pandora Radio** **Tap Tap Revenge** **Labryinthe Lite** **Google Earth** **AIM** […]