Judy Mottl

Apple’s iPhone will continue its meteoric rise next year, according to a new analyst report that finds that the smartphone will represent nearly 20 percent of the PC maker’s overall sales in 2009. Piper Jaffray senior research analyst Gene Munster predicts the iPhone 3G, which accounted for 5.7 percent of the company’s total sales this […]

Big changes are afoot in Symantec’s e-mail and content archiving unit, Enterprise Vault, according to reports. Industry analyst David Ferris wrote in a research note today that the security vendor has laid off its Enterprise Vault sales and technical services staff — but the change is not only a cost-cutting maneuver, he said. Instead, it’s […]

Motorola lost some ground in mobile phone market share due to aggressive pricing by competitors and economic pressures, a new report claims. Gartner’s market analysis for mobile handset makers, released today, now rates Motorola (NYSE: MOT) in fourth place behind Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson in global sales. Motorola now holds an 8 percent share […]

Be careful what you store on your mobile device. It’s a long held maxim that came more clearly into focus this past week following reports of a lost Apple iPhone containing nude photos. According to a story in the Associated Press, Phillip Sherman accidentally left his iPhone behind at a local McDonald’s franchise in Fayetteville, […]

Apple’s legal department may have a busy holiday season ahead of it. The Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker is facing two new lawsuits stemming from its popular smartphone — a patent infringement claim tied to the iPhone’s Web browser, and a second suit that claims the iPhone 3G is not delivering on Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) promised […]

Smartphone maker Palm is laying off workers, while analysts are downgrading the company and its prospects for survival on its own. The layoff action, announced Friday, comes nearly two months after the launch of its newest high-end smartphone, the Treo Pro. The news sparked downbeat comments by analysts who wonder if Palm (NASDAQ: PALM), already […]

BlackBerry StormSource: RIM. Click to enlarge. Research in Motion’s launch today of its BlackBerry Storm 9530, may mark the top challenger yet to face-off against Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, experts said. “RIM is putting one foot on both sides of the smartphone fence, as this device will appeal to those who like the iPhone but also want BlackBerry […]

A new survey reports that IT spend is hitting a historic low levels with no glimmer of resurgence coming in the near future. ChangeWave Research said 39 percent of companies polled have spent less than planned in the current fourth quarter, a drop of nine percentage points from an August survey. Just six percent of […]

Who would have thought that BlackBerry users — those professional mobile workers who never leave home or their office without their handy communications device — would be social animals? Yes, we know they’re email aficionados who understand the value of never not being in touch, but I never would have guess they’d break records when […]

A New York iPhone 3G user has filed a class action suit against Apple and AT&T Wireless, claiming the device does not deliver promised network capabilities and the smartphone’s casing is prone to hairline cracks. The suit, filed September 29 in Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Nassau, by Avi Koschitzki, […]

Cutting back on what you spend on enterprise mobile applications? A startup called MyCaption is pitching a lower-priced way to speech-enable e-mail and calendar items on BlackBerry devices. MyCaption claims that its hosted software application solves the technical challenges plaguing current voice-to-data technology. The company said the new service enables multi-tasking, and helps business users […]

Lenovo has launched a new desktop client that the Chinese PC maker said reduces management costs and bolsters data storage and security while retaining full computing functionality. The Secure Managed Client (SMC) is a hard-drive free ThinkCentre desktop. It has all the looks and markings of a thin client computer, given the cost savings that […]