Judy Mottl

Source: Palm Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) reported better than expected revenues today of $366.9 million, above analysts’ estimates of $329.9 million, but not all was rosy given it reported a net loss of $41.9 million, representing 39 cents a share, while analysts expected a loss of 20 cents a share on revenue of 329.9 million. Palm’s […]

When I [interviewed](/bus-news/article.php/3771416/Dan+Hesse+In+the+Captains+Chair+at+Sprint.htm) Dan Hesse, Sprint’s CEO, a few months back for a [profile](/bus-news/article.php/3771416/Dan+Hesse+In+the+Captains+Chair+at+Sprint.htm) on Sprint’s take-charge leader, I was impressed with his openness and his forth right responses. After all Sprint is in third place and it’s not looking like AT&T or Verizon Wireless want to give up an inch. So I wasn’t surprised […]

While the Clearwire WiMAX network is on track, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse told investors at a Goldman Sachs conference in NYC yesterday that the effort will need an infusion of $2B more for completion. Clearwire is already set to gain an infusion of $3.2B from the strategic investors ��� cable companies, Google and Intel ��� […]

While this week’s financial fallout from Wall Street will affect corporate IT spend, high-end smartphone makers won’t experience any great pains given mobile handsets are critical business devices and market shakeup could even bring new business opportunities. “Overall there will not be a big impact, though any time the economy is tough technology will experience […]

In six days one of the most highly anticipated mobile handsets takes center stage, and official details on the impending Google Android operating system and T-Mobile device are not being released. While T-Mobile sent media invites today for a New York launch event on Sept. 23, neither the carrier or search engine giant are spilling […]

I suddenly don’t feel so alone and stupid any more. It seems that I’m not the only one who loses a cell phone every six months or so. A new [report](http://www.credant.com/mountains-of-mobiles-left-in-the-back-of-new-york-cabs.html) from Credant Technologies states that 31,544 mobile phones were lost, at least for awhile, after being left in the back of New York and […]

Samsung clearly doesn’t take no for an answer when it wants something. The world’s top memory chip maker, despite being spurned on its initial $5.8B acquisition offer for SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) Monday, is not giving up on what one analyst said would be a historical industry merger. In a letter today Samsung outlined why the […]

While WiMAX network deployments are right around the corner, actual handsets for the 4G high-speed data superhighway aren’t on the horizon, though other enabled devices are primed. “They [handsets] should have been here by now but there have been no announcements, no hardware to review,” Carmi Levy, senior vice president of strategic consulting for AR […]

Sprint Nextel CEO Daniel Hesse likes to finish what he starts. When Hesse got the call in 1992 to take a potentially lucrative new post in AT&T’s New Jersey headquarters two years into spearheading an ambitious telecom project in the Netherlands, he told his bosses “no.” His decision to stay could have been a career-killer […]

Nokia is enabling 43 high-end mobile devices with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, providing Mail for Exchange access to a potential user base of 80 million, in a direct move to push deeper into the enterprise smartphone market. The announcement this week may also signal that Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) initial corporate e-mail strategy, via its 2005 $430 […]

A new survey of wireless industry growth reports steady, and somewhat astounding, leaps in subscriber base, revenue, cell site locations and even industry employee levels, yet when it comes to wireless plan spend and talk minutes the increase has been much slower and incremental. According to CTIA, a wireless association, data service revenues for the […]

I don’t watch *Big Brother* (ok.. no snickering) so I didn’t catch the second Microsoft ad that debuted last night featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. But I caught it on YouTube this am, and I have to say, a few parts made me laugh. Essentially Bill and Jerry crash with a typical family to […]