Judy Mottl

Amazon is revamping pricing on its S3 cloud storage service, moving from set monthly fees to a tiered price approach that rewards heavy data owners. As of Nov. 1, customers now paying 15 cents per gigabyte (GB) a month for storage used will pay that only for the first 50 terabytes (TB) of data. As […]

There’s no debate that the touch screen is having a phenomenal impact on the smartphone market. Apple’s iPhone finger-tap panel design is literally rattling the competitive smartphone industry into refreshing traditional small static screens and is driving handset innovations across the device from the keyboard to applications. Now such a phenomenon may happen again, and […]

Over 50 percent of mobile workers surveyed said it would be easier to go without a car for a week than relinquish Internet access. And a majority in the same survey said they don’t mind kicking in a few extra work hours for the freedom and increased productivity that mobile computing provides. These and other […]

Sprint remains optimistic that its expensive investment in WiMAX, the high-speed wireless networking technology, will pay off in spite of the grave economic conditions now facing the industry. The company celebrated the launch of its nine-day-old Xohm (pronounced “zoam,” like “roam”) WiMAX network in Baltimore today, site of the first such network in Sprint’s nationwide […]

Research in Motion (RIM) may debut its latest consumer-centric BlackBerry, the long-awaited, feature-rich Storm 9730, as early as tomorrow. According to RBC analyst Mike Abramsky, the touchscreen-based Storm is set to make its first public appearance in London this week, highlighting expected features like a widescreen mode, improved camera and e-mail features and a removable […]

Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) is seen as the next stop for the online application express heading through the smartphone industry. That’s what plenty of fan sites are expecting when the Blackberry maker unveils its next smartphone device, the Storm. Speculation ramped up after Blackberry fan site Crackberry.com published what it called leaked screenshots of […]

HP is set to become the latest tech giant vying to steal the iPhone’s thunder, with plans to soon launch its first-ever, consumer-focused smartphone, InternetNews.com has learned. Details on the device, which is expected to ship before the end of the year, remain sketchy, however. Outlets such as the The Wall Street Journal have reported […]

While the national economic slump and the banking failure are hurting corporate tech spending, they aren’t dampening consumers’ willingness to lay out big bucks for high-end smartphones. A new survey released yesterday by ChangeWave Research found that nearly 12 percent of the consumers it polled plan to buy a particular brand of smartphone within the […]

iPhone users eagerly awaiting Adobe’s Flash technology shouldn’t hold their breath — despite the fact that a mobile version of the online multimedia software is nearly ready for Apple’s smartphone. The reason? It doesn’t look like the two companies are going to settle into a collaborative partnership anytime soon, which ensures that Apple’s needed sign-off […]

The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone.Click to enlarge. Source: Nokia Nokia took a few swings at Apple’s iPhone and iTunes service today, with a one-two punch consisting of its new touchscreen-based, music-centric smartphone and a free music download service. During the unveiling of both the new 5800 XpressMusic phone and the “Comes With Music” service today […]

Nokia won’t just beat Research in Motion to the touch screen punch but will be making a statement about its mobile device services strategy as it launches “Tube,” its newest smartphone, in London today. According to one research analyst who requested anonymity, Tube will illustrate how the Finnish handset maker will be utilizing mobile services […]

This item definitely falls into the ‘what took you so long’ category. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a release today that it has hired on Jon Peha as Chief Technologist to serve one year as a senior advisor on communications technology in the FCC’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis. Nope, this isn’t […]