Judy Mottl

New York City’s most extensive municipal wireless network is a month away from launch. When it goes live, it will initially connect 70 percent of police and fire operations to new public safety and public service applications via vehicle modems and handheld units. The launch date comes four years since the city awarded Northrop Grumman […]

NetApp (or as we used to know it, Network Appliance) launched a massive re-branding effort last week. The marketing effort caught lots of news attention and blog traction. What it didn’t seem to do is impress stock watchers. Following NetApp’s Analyst Day event this week, Jayson Noland, a Robert W. Baird analyst, downgraded the company’s […]

NEC Unified Solutions is rolling several communications tools for its month-old UNIVERGE360 platform, offering user-customization options and a module that promises to make system management easier. The new unified communication (UC) products include the SV8500 enterprise server, UC700 desktop client, UM8500 unified messaging system and the MC530 mobile client. NEC has also updated its SV7000 […]

The flap continues over missing White House e-mails, with a watchdog group calling for an FBI investigation while a second organization seeks to have the White House’s CIO face more questions about the office’s data loss and archival procedures. Yesterday, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked the FBI to investigate whether officials […]

One has to wonder if there is now a revolving door at Motorola’s executive suite given that another top leader — this time, mobile services honcho Stu Reed — has left the building, raising further uncertainty about the company’s future in handsets. The news this weekend came as little surprise given CEO Greg Brown, who […]

If you think storing your enterprise data is a tough challenge now, it’s nothing compared to what it might be in just a few years. According to a new study from research firm IDC and storage vendor EMC, data requirements are growing at an annual rate of 60 percent. Today, that figure tops 45 gigabytes […]

EMC continues to expand its IT services tool set with the acquisition of Infra, a privately held IT service management provider. Financial terms were not disclosed. EMC said the new technology broadens its capacity to provide technology that helps customers manage IT services — and to compete with leaders in the space like HP, IBM, […]

IBM will pour $1 billion into efforts to better compete with rivals like Microsoft in unified communications, company executives said today during a press conference, during which they also talked up an enhanced version of IBM’s Lotus Sametime communications platform. At stake for IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft and other contenders is dominance in an increasingly […]

EMC has bought itself a service management software provider — an acquistion EMC says “solidifies” its “Closed Loop Service Orchestration” strategy which is aimed at helping IT leaders automate data center operations. Infra’s tool, infraEnterprise, is a Web-based IT Infrastructure Library that provides a service desk for managing IT services. According to Chris Gahagan, EMC’s […]

It’s NetApp. Got it? Not Network Appliance, not Net Appliance, and obviously not Network Associates, as company cofounder Dave Hitz related in his [blog](http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/) this weekend. It’s the new NetApp, boasting new tagline, new logo, new company website. As Hitz says, the “whole shebang.” What’s prompted the marketing makeover? Well it seems even NetApp was […]

Smartphone users want entertainment over work-related applications, and they also want some bells and whistles, too. Just two years ago, business and professional content held court in content download statistics, in first place with 18 percent of purchases. Entertainment was in third place. Now entertainment holds 17 percent while business applications dropped to 16 percent, […]

Now that you’ve bought that coveted Lamborghini it’s time to check out the appropriate smartphone device to use while cruising the highway. And that would be the Lamborghini-branded Asus ZX1. The $15,000 device is a Quad-band GSM, tri-band WCDMA phone with GPRS and EDGE. It also boasts GPS for finding that next Starbucks. It runs […]