Judy Mottl

Just three months since it acquired continuous data protection (CDP) startup FilesX, IBM has rebranded its solution as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) FastBack and today began pushing its own version to market. CDP, also known as continuous backup, has been growing in importance as a way for companies to better ensure their files are […]

Motorola (NYSE: MOT) announced today is it acquiring wireless LAN security vendor AirDefense for an undisclosed amount. The company said the addition of AirDefense would help it create a common platform offering enhanced internal and external network protection. AirDefense, a seven-year-old wireless intrusion prevention tool provider, has been partnering with Motorola’s Symbol WLAN division for […]

Just days ahead of its second-quarter earnings report, Motorola has set a major reorganization in motion, as the company battles a sluggish economy and intense market pressure. The company’s Home & Networks Mobility business will now focus on three areas: Broadband Home Solutions, Broadband Access Solutions and Cellular Networks. “Today’s announcement builds on the business’s […]

AT&T has filed what could be the first volley in a battle over the proposed Sprint-Clearwire WiMAX network proposal. The company claims the formal petition for the project should be denied because the vendors aren’t being truthful about spectrum holdings. In its Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filing today, AT&T (NYSE: T) said the carriers are […]

Verizon Wireless posted impressive second quarter earnings this morning, beating analysts’ predictions in posting revenue of $1.88 billion, a 58 cents a share jump from last year’s second quarter earnings of $1.68 billion. Revenue for the second quarter was $24.12 billion, up from $23.27 billion in the first quarter and a 3.7 percent increase compared […]

An advocacy group representing smaller, rural wireless carriers is petitioning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reinstate limits on the amount of spectrum a carrier can own — a move that it believes could stop the nation’s largest wireless companies from grabbing an unfair share. The Rural Telecommunications Group (RTG) said its members’ networks could […]

T-Mobile is filing a request today with the FCC for a longer comment period on a proposed spectrum auction, claiming its network service would suffer interference if the spectrum is sold off. The carrier also wants the federal agency to test whether using part of the 2.1GHz-band wireless spectrum — known as Advanced Wireless Services […]

Mobile viruses are infecting more handsets than ever, and are much smarter than they were just one year ago, according to a report released today from AdaptiveMobile. Viruses are going well beyond initial quests centered around replication on devices. Today’s aim to steal phone books and contact lists to initiate premium text messaging activity for […]

Source: Reuters Despite persistent concerns about macroeconomic conditions and brutal competition among wireless players, AT&T posted double-digit revenue growth for its second-quarter financials. Data services demands were a key factor in the growth. The carrier also reported more than a million new subscribers and a 4.7 increase in revenue overall compared with the first quarter […]

Not only will there be more coverage when this summer’s Beijing Olympics is held in August, there’ll be lots and lots of video data and it seems Seagate’s got it well in hand. The storage vendor will provide nearly half a million gigs of storage for NBC, which is televising the event. NBC has pulled […]

Smartphone users want as much access to data and systems as possible and aren’t adverse to security to protect devices, according to a new study released today by Decipher. According to the Smartphone Protection Consumer Survey, which polled 200 users, 89 percent of users check e-mail and access corporate information, and 70 percent access sensitive […]

Texas Memory Systems (TMS) is debuting a RAM–solid state disk drive (SSD) today for enterprises able to say “price be damned” in exchange for intense performance, fast speed and high storage capacity. Starting at $140,000 the RamSan-440 quadruples current available RAM-SSD capacity and can handle up to 600,000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS), according to the […]