Judy Mottl

Greater productivity, faster and efficient communications and data-on-demand are just three factors propelling smartphones into play and prompting mobile infrastructure build-outs in the enterprise. But don’t forget fashion statements and price wars when counting up the real growth drivers in these mobile devices. According to Gartner Research, worldwide smartphone sales are expected to reach 1.28 […]

Sprint CEO Dan HesseSource: Reuters Sprint Nextel (NYSE: S) may be making strides in pushing data services and cutting down on its customer churn, but the No. 3 U.S. carrier is still losing money — and CEO Dan Hesse admits there’s still a great deal of work ahead. The company reported second-quarter results today, showing […]

With its open source and proprietary rivals proliferating and shoring up their positions, the Linux-based LiMo Foundation is pulling out all the stops in its bid to establish itself as the preeminent mobile platform. LiMo, an alliance of major handset vendors and carriers developing a Linux-based smartphone operating system, this week revealed a number of […]

EMC has once again retooled its Clariion midrange storage system — but this time with a twist. In addition to bulking up capacity, the CX4 series includes built-in advanced features such as virtual provisioning, flash drives, improved network connectivity and enhanced disaster-recovery options. While the new series announced today doubles the capacity of the two-year-old […]

Motorola’s finally got a new leader helping out at the helm of its company and to drive its handset division forward and I have to admit I was a bit surprised Moto lured in such an experienced and successful executive. During the past six months I’ve been checking in with industry pundits, asking them what […]

One pundit calls Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) new co-CEO Sanjay Jha a “Hail Mary leader,” for the daunting challenges facing the new leader of the struggling handset maker. Another called the choice of CEO a “a great pick,” before asking tough questions during an impromptu conference call today. They gathered to discuss leadership news of Jha’s […]

Motorola has named Sanjay Jha, former COO of Qualcomm, as co-CEO of the corporate operation and CEO of the company’s struggling mobile devices business. The 80-year-old company plans to spin off the unit by the third quarter of 2009. Jha, who had also served as president of Qualcomm’s CDMA Technologies, will share leadership duties with […]

While the regulatory debate between the FCC and Comcast over the provider’s tactics for Internet traffic management may have ended today, the issue of what a service provider can and can’t do about users’ network use won’t fade given a new potential battlefront — the mobile wireless broadband environment. In a letter released today, the […]

A sluggish economy isn’t stopping users from buying new and increasingly powerful mobile phones, as the industry continues to experience double-digit growth over last year, a new IDC report found. Device makers shipped 306 million units during the second quarter of the year — up 5.6 percent from last quarter and a 15.3 percent increase […]

Burgeoning demand for data services will translate to soaring popularity for next-generation wireless broadband technologies, with 2.1 billion users projected worldwide by 2015, according to a study released Wednesday. Big winners will be carriers and handset makers, as growing adoption will generate $784 billion globally in service revenue by 2015 — a dramatic 2400 percent […]

Motorola’s much-touted turnaround may finally be showing some signs of progress, posting a surprise profit — albeit a tiny one. For its second quarter, the 80-year-old handset maker reported earnings of $4 million, breakeven on a per-share basis, citing strong demand for home and business networking devices. It also credited success on plans to cut […]

A U.S. District Court yesterday quashed an effort by the Department of Justice (DoJ) to fight legal action related to missing White House e-mails. The DoJ, which is representing the White House, had disapproved of the court’s previous recommendation on e-mail preservation in the Executive Office of the President (EOP). The court had advised the […]