Judy Mottl

Amazon’s S3 service ran into some stormy weather on Sunday when technical glitches knocked the company’s “cloud” storage offline for several hours. The company’s service — also known as “Simple Storage Service” — offers storage hosted “in the cloud”, on Amazon’s servers. But the service went offline for three hours when, communication problems among S3’s […]

Storage titan EMC has done a really wild random act of kindness. Ok maybe not wildly random, but it is pretty cool. The vendor has donated $70,000 to help the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) digitize 150 years worth of historic astronomical information —- about 100 terabytes. PARI is an EMC customer. The organization helps […]

Enterprises keeping WiMAX deployments at bay have the right idea given a new report that states the technology is two to three years from debuting as a mature networking option. Challenges in network builds and slow delivery of compatible handset devices have led to the delay. The news likely won’t stall the $14 billion dollar […]

Source: Reuters With this week’s debut of its latest Treo smartphone, Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) is clearly not sitting idle while Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) continue to dominate the handset industry. The question is whether the No. 3 player can deliver necessary device innovations in time to avoid being left in […]

Palm’s timing may be questionable in releasing its latest Treo 800w smartphone for Windows on the heels of Apple’s 3G iPhone; but the struggling smartphone has managed to grab attention away from the iPhone craze. With the release of a slimmed down version that just hit the market Monday, Palm is offering a Treo 800w […]

What a little stock dip can do, huh! News reports this morning claim SK Telecom has publicly said it’s not panting after Sprint after all. The reason? The minute the news hit SK’s stock dropped and its investors expressed some angst. Not horrible news in my opinion as I’m looking forward to seeing Sprint evolve […]

According to published reports Sprint is being wooed by SK Telecom — a Korean company who previously courted the third-place carrier with a $5B buy-in offer last November and was politely turned down. The current courting could be a full acquisition or just a technology buy-in proposition depending on what paper you read today. For […]

Aiming to simplify the task of managing Web-based and offline storage for small businesses, EMC (NYSE: EMC) has made its Retrospect Express software the connecting link between the vendor’s Mozy online service and its Iomega backup drives. The result is an all-in-one, local and remote protection approach aimed at small to midsize businesses (SMB) that […]

Palm’s (Nasdaq:PALM) timing may be questionable in releasing its latest Treo 800w smartphone for Windows on the heels of Apple’s 3G iPhone; but the struggling smartphone has managed to grab attention away from the iPhone craze. With the release of a slimmed down version that just hit the market Monday, Palm is offering a Treo […]

When you need of 48 rolls of toilet paper in one handy package, the place to go is the local Costco warehouse. Now it’s also the place where small and medium sized enterprises can get hosted wireless communications, thanks to a unique partnership between the wholesaler and Sotto Wireless. Called Sotto@SOHO, the service is an […]

Everyone hears rumors. Heck the blogsphere not only reports rumors, it creates them and fuels them to the point where sometimes you can’t even believe what you’re reading. But when you hear three different rumors about the same company, in the timeframe of 18 hours, it can make your head snap up just a little […]

This week is shaping up to be one of the busiest in storage tape history, with HP and Sony teaming up to create the next generation of Digital Audio Tape (DAT), while Sun and IBM fight for the crown of being first with a 1 terabyte (TB) tape drive. To some, the news signals that […]