Judy Mottl

If there’s one lightning rod in this year’s Presidential campaigns it’s the use of the word ‘change.’ And as Barack Obama points out in his latest television spot, according to [AP](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080912/ap_on_el_pr/obama), John McCain’s technology skills haven’t changed much since he landed in Washington in 1982. Here’s a snippet of the latest ad focusing on how […]

While the movement toward open mobile networks in the U.S. has received strong support from both consumers and the Federal Communications Commission, a new report suggests that consumers may still wind up paying a steep price. The problem involves the heavy subsidies that wireless carriers offer users on mobile devices that are “locked” to their […]

Greg Brown spent an hour this morning talking to investors in New York and while lots of words were spoken, and questions posed, few specifics about how Motorola plans to make its mobile device business work as a spin-off were doled out. To be fair, a majority of the talk was devoted to Moto’s other […]

The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220Source: RIM Research In Motion is betting a new phone design will lead to greater appeal beyond its core enterprise user base, today announcing its first flip-open, clamshell-style BlackBerry — the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220. The Flip 8220’s dramatic design change, which also switches out the full QWERTY-style keyboard for a […]

Reuters is [reporting ](http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWEA895920080910)that Google’s first Android smartphone will debut on September 24th — just two weeks from now, though exclusive carrier T-Mobile and Google of course aren’t publicly commenting on the impending smartphone arrival. If it does arrive, it bodes well for what’s likely the most anticipated mobile device since Apple launched its iPhone […]

Sprint and Verizon Wireless are pushing out new business services aimed at helping enterprises manage both wide area networks (WANs) and wireless local area networks (WLANs). Sprint’s (NYSE: S) free Compass service lets network admins check IP and Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network performance to gain better insight on network traffic issues as well […]

Nine weeks to the day VMware (NYSE: VMW) CEO Diane Green was ousted, her husband Mendel Rosenblum, who co-founded the virtualization software firm in 1998, is leaving his the role as chief scientist. Rosenblum is heading back to the classrooms at Stanford University, according to Reuters. He’s the second high-ranking VMware executive to depart this […]

Smartphones are selling, well, like smartphones these days with a new Gartner study reporting worldwide sales hitting 32.3 million units in the second quarter of 2008 — a 15. 7 per cent jump over the second quarter of 2007. Despite a continued sluggish economy the North American market is still one of the fastest growing […]

One could almost see the saloon doors flapping, feel the dust coming off a dirt road and hear the unsnapping of holsters as IBM unveiled its new storage portfolio strategy today — clearly spoiling for a showdown with EMC. Instead of selling customers standalone hardware, or hawking an single enhancement to a software tool as […]

Motorola’s multimedia chief honcho Mike Hickey has jumped ship, taking the CEO job over at Wolfson Microelectronics, a British chip maker. It’s a curious announcement and one Motorola isn’t providing information on at its Web site. But Wolfson put out a few releases, and according to a CNN report the 49-year-old has been working in […]

Enterprises may be cutting back on spending, but obviously not storage given worldwide disk storage systems grew to $6.9 billion in revenues for the second quarter of this year. This mark is up 10 percent from second quarter 2007 with analysts attributing growth to better technology options. The spike is the highest growth IDC research […]

Source: Reuters Can music soothe a savage market? Nokia hopes so. Battling slipping market share, the Finnish mobile phone maker is aiming for a bigger chunk of the cutthroat mobile device space by making music features a greater part of its product strategy. A key part of the plan has been the company’s music store, […]