Judy Mottl

Source: Amazon.com Call it Kindle Love, Part 2. As Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) ships the second version of its popular e-reader Kindle, the reviews flowing in so far are waxing warm and fuzzy about device enhancements — even though they are nearly silent on price. Take today’s review by New York Times technology writer David Pogue. He described […]

The days of virtual storage environments being limited to the big boys due to price point and management workload are over. Iomega today announced two NAS devices certified for VMware for the SMB and remote office location. The Iomega StorCenter ix2 and Iomega StorCenter Pro ix4-100 desktop network start at $300 for one terabyte of […]

Document archiving giant Iron Mountain is aiming to scale another towering peak: cutting down on enterprises’ staggering storage costs by using the Web. The 58-year-old company — best known for its core, paper-based retention and archiving business — is expanding its online efforts with Virtual File Store (VFS), a hosted storage archiving solution that provides […]

A quick glimpse online activity last month shows money and jobs are top concerns, but Web visitors are also searching for fun getaways and seeking to expand social circles. January’s top-gaining Web site category was tax help and preparation, according to comScore’s (NASDAQ: SCOR) monthly analysis of U.S. consumer activity. “January has once again seen […]

A federal court has tossed a lawsuit that claimed Google’s Street View mapping service invaded a couple’s privacy. Aaron and Christine Boring of Pittsburgh filed a five-count complaint against Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) last April claiming that the “street view” feature of Google’s mapping service, which displayed their home on a private road, violated their privacy. […]

Third-place wireless carrier Sprint said it lost $1.62 billion, or 57 cents a share, in the fourth quarter of 2008 as subscribers continued to leave the carrier. The carrier said it lost 1.3 million subscribers in the quarter, bringing it to 49.3 million subscribers by the end of 2008, compared to 53.8 million a year […]

With consumer spending on the wane, PC makers such as Dell, HP and Apple will find the next few months more challenging than ever, according to a new survey from ChangeWave Research. Just 4 percent of the consumers polled by ChangeWave said they plan to buy a desktop in the next 90 days, while 6 […]

It bills itself as a business networking site that provides a mix of social networking, e-commerce, and comprehensive business listings. The name is http://www.7MainStreet.com and its beta test is now live. The goal, explained CEO Andy Leff, is to give companies, big and small, one place to build an e-commerce operation. With companies such as […]

After members cried foul over Facebook’s changes to its Terms of Service (TOS) agreement, the social networking site is reconsidering the move — turning back the clock on modifications and vowing to include user input before pushing out a new policy. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post this morning that Facebook will be […]

Think “smartphone,” and it’s the non-voice features like watching videos, downloading games and accessing e-mail that jump to mind for most. But at least one software company is working to voice back to the forefront of mobile device functionality. At the same time, Ditech Networks (NASDAQ: DITC), a player in voice quality technology, is also […]

Apple’s iPhone and iPod lead the pack mobile handset Wi-Fi in the U.S. use while Nokia’s handsets are dominant worldwide and the Symbian platform is tops in global Wi-Fi activity, according to a just-published report. Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) devices accounted for 29.1 percent of U.S. Wi-Fi Internet access requests in the U.S. for January, with […]

The tweeters are atwitter about a new round of funding for the popular Twitter microblogging service — even though the company has yet to reveal how it plans to begin making money. The company closed on a $35 million financing round with venture capital firms Benchmark and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), and including new funding […]