Judy Mottl

Proposed legislation aimed at freezing state and local government taxes on wireless devices and services for the next five years was introduced in the Senate last Friday. The Mobile Wireless Tax Fairness Act of 2008 (S.3249), co-sponsored by Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), targets what the lawmakers, as well as one wireless […]

A proposed law aimed at improving White House electronic record keeping is facing administration opposition despite a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that takes federal agencies to task over e-mail management and recommends a comprehensive overhaul of digital document preservation practices. The Electronics Communications Preservation Act (H.R.5811) would require the National Archivist office to develop […]

Small to mid-size businesses eyeing unified communications should consider the software as a service (SaaS) approach, a panel of UC experts said on a Web broadcast Thursday. Among the advantages, the panelists listed cost savings, the elimination of integration hurdles and the opportunity SaaS gives to make enterprise mobility a reality. The strategy provides a […]

The advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) won a small victory today, as the U.S. District Court held out the possibility of an appeal overturning its decision on access to documents relating to missing White House e-mails. The latest ruling is not a reversal but an indication that the CREW appeal has merit, […]

Sun launched a new line of cheaper and bulkier open storage boxes today for enterprises wanting greater capacity in an easy-to-scale fashion. The J4000 line features three systems ranging from 12 drives to 48 drives that can connect directly to servers running Solaris, Linux or Windows as well as OpenSolaris platforms. In addition Sun (NASDAQ: […]

Responding to customer demand for big storage that’s more energy efficient and secure, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced its next generation of 1 terabyte hard drives, which offer data encryption in a more compact form factor. Hitachi GST’s Deskstar 7K1000.B product line features a three-disk design that requires less power and cooling. In addition, […]

Sybase took a big step toward its “Unwired Enterprise” strategy today, announcing a partnership with Cable & Wireless that makes Sybase a top mobile middleware middleman. The partnership gives the messaging software provider’s mobile division exclusive worldwide rights to market and sell services for mobile data roaming. At the same time, Sybase’s purchase of Cable […]

Consumers’ need for more memory on their advanced, Internet-enabled mobile phones is spurring not only a surge in removable flash card slots, but also dramatic changes in the mobile memory landscape itself. According to a report released last week by Strategy Analytics, removable memory card slots appeared in 53 percent of all mobile phones shipped […]

While two startups are targeting the cloud for rolling out extremely cheap storage platforms, they’re using different technologies to make it happen. Parascale’s software turns commodity Linux servers into online storage nodes costing less than a piece of Bazooka gum these days — about 25 to 50 cents per gigabyte. The four-year-old Cupertino, Calif.-based software […]

In an age where mobile phones sport ever-faster Web access, support for downloadable music and add-on applications, phone features like text messaging might seem downright old-fashioned. That’s why it all the more surprising that it’s text messaging that remains users’ must-have feature, according to a study released this week from Amplitude Research. In a survey […]

The decision to vault onto the smartphone bandwagon can be intimidating for small and mid-size businesses. It requires investment in capital, investment in employee training time and a commitment to making sure the device fosters productivity instead of hindering it. Essentially it can be a lot of work for small shops with little or no […]

Worldwide enterprise storage costs are predicted to spike from this year’s $1.3 billion to over $2 billion by 2009, according to IDC research. Part of the reason for the hike in costs: storage infrastructure is growing at a annual rate of 50 percent. Add to that an annual average increase of 19 percent in power […]