Judy Mottl

Mobile phone users are not only getting more social and looking for fun, they’re also increasingly willing to spend more for the privilege when they buy a phone. According to a new study from J.D. Power and Associates, they’re willing to spend an average of $9 more on new phones — an increase the research […]

First it was Canada. Now it’s the U.K. England’s Alton Towers Resort — which describes itself as the U.K.’s best-loved theme park — is finishing up a one-week pilot program aimed at keeping adults’ attention on kids and fun, I’m guessing, rather than texting friends, emailing work or checking the current sports scores. As the […]

Who knew that storage devices could be sassy and sexy, slinky and stylish? Apparently someone over at Iomega. The hard drive maker’s latest product line promises to jazz up everyone’s desktop with some spark and sizzle. Gone gray tone and black boxes. Be gone with you now. Instead … drum roll… Here she is, the […]

Managing wireless networks and supporting various smartphone devices are increasing pain points that Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) believes it can ease with the 3300 Series Mobility Services Engine (MSE), a new mobile platform appliance that promises efficient network administration and greater business collaboration. Due to ship in June, the MSE not only centralizes management of […]

Despite technology’s promise of creating a paperless office environment, enterprises still struggle with growing piles of digital records. “Businesses continue to swim in a vast sea of refined wood pulp,” Charles King, principal analyst, Pund-IT, told InternetNews.com. “The sheer complexity of dealing with huge volumes of paper documents has implications for everything from managing accounting […]

Remember when those reports came out years back that said cellphones caused brain cancer? I wasn’t shocked by it. I figured people who spent hours a day on cellphones, devices that intermittently cut off callers every three minutes, must have some brain damage after all. But now come reports that people are claiming they are […]

Wi-Fi is cemented into enterprises, 3G is taking deeper root and although mobile-application security is a major concern, WiMAX is still just a faint idea for most enterprises’, according to a new report from Chadwick Martin Bailey. A survey of 114 IT decision makers reveals that 69 percent of enterprises use Wi-Fi for data access […]

A new archive solution promises to make data storage and retrieval easier, less time-intensive and more cost-efficient for health care companies dealing with mountains of data they need to save and comb through later. BridgeHead Software’s PACStore tool aims to foster improved diagnostics as well, since health care professionals can search for medical images stored […]

The Rural Carriers Association (RCA) wants the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate what it calls “anticompetitive effects” of exclusive device deals between handset makers and the nation’s top five leading wireless carriers. In a petition filed last week, the group claims that such arrangements are contrary to the public interest, hurting both consumers and […]

Source: Reuters Smartphone users are browsing the Web more than ever these days, spending an average of 4 hours and 38 minutes each month, according to a new survey from M:Metrics. The top Web site for U.S.-based mobile users is classified vendor site Craigslist, where users spent about 1 hour and 39 minutes in March. […]

If and when U.S. airlines permit mobile device activity, most users won’t want to hear others’ phone conversations unless there’s a special section in the plane for conversations. Instead, travelers would prefer to see mobile data use alone cleared for takeoff. That’s the feedback from consumers in a new survey commissioned by Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) […]

A new workforce management tool using global positioning system (GPS) technology can help companies track timesheet data collection, payroll integration, job order management as well as worker logistics data. That’s just a short list of features promised by the Xora GPS TimeTrack software. It’s just rolled out for a slew of smartphones on the AT&T […]