Judy Mottl

The Internet has just served its billionth customer. In December, the total global Internet audience surpassed one billion users, according to Internet traffic measurement firm comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR). In a new report, the research firm said that the Asia-Pacific region continues to claim the lion’s share, accounting for 41 percent of Internet users worldwide — […]

Seriously, what more could Research in Motion, the maker of the Blackberry, ask for in terms of prestige these days given newly-elected President Barack Obama is a Crackberry addict? Best of all the President, who reportedly was never seen without his BlackBerry in hand during his campaign, doesn’t have to give up his treasured device […]

The new year is not starting well for Seagate as the storage player reported a net loss of $496 million, or $1.02 per share, and the company had to deal with a firmware boondoggle that resulted in 500GB hard drives being rendered useless. Sales also fell short at $2.3 billion in revenue, well below initial […]

One of the most historic days in the U.S. presidency was also a historic opportunity for Web video — with millions of users turning to streaming video sites to get their fix of the day’s events. But as it turned out, the surging traffic choked key sites and corporate networks, making access to streamed video […]

Do you Twitter more than you Digg these days? If so, you’re part of new social networking trend as visits to the micro-blogging site beat Web site link sharing last week with citizen journalism playing a role. Hitwise, an Internet traffic monitoring firm, reported today that tweets — the 140-character short posts by Twitter users […]

Washington D.C. crowds on the mall for the Obama inauguration. Source: Reuters UPDATED: Today’s inauguration of President Barack Obama put national wireless networks in the spotlight and on the hotseat as over a million attendees called, texted, Twittered and e-mailed photos throughout the historic event. They held up. Carriers and customers reported no major outages […]

Palm is taking a page from Apple’s iPhone strategy book when it comes to keeping things quiet regarding its newly-announced Pre smartphone and webOS mobile platform. The two things Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) will say is that it is focused on completing software development and network certification requirements and expects devices to be available by June. […]

Source: Janis Krums’ Twitter feedClick for full image on TwitPic. Yesterday’s dramatic emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River made national TV and newspaper headlines. But the story broke first across social networking sites and through mobile messages — giving social media a major coup that its fans are crowing […]

After a week that saw Seagate lose its two top executives, announce plans to cut nearly 3,000 employees and slashing salaries throughout its organization, it’s clear to industry observers that the hard drive maker is suffering from more than just a down economy: It needs a whole new strategy, they say. On Monday, Seagate (NASDAQ: […]

With just six days to go before the Bush administration leaves the White House and Obama’s term begins, a federal court today extended a preservation order aiming to ensure that the outgoing administration does everything it can to recover any missing White House e-mails. The White House IT staff now has six days to scour […]

Motorola announced even bigger workforce cuts this afternoon — an additional 4,000 in layoffs for the beleaguered handset maker. In a press release issued just before 5pm today the company stated there will be approximately 4,000 additional workforce reductions, with 3,000 within in the Mobile Devices business. The other 1,000 positions are associated with corporate […]

Slowly but surely, adults are catching social networking fever, with one third now taking the plunge and putting a profile online. A Pew Internet & American Life Project study released today found that four times as many adults were using online social network sites in 2008 than in 2005. That number has more than doubled […]