Judy Mottl

Nokia currently rules the roost when it comes to worldwide smartphone sales. But is Apple in a position to displace it? That’s the conclusions drawn by Generator Research, which claims in a new research report that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has the business ingredients, and most importantly, the product strategy it needs to become the leader […]

President-elect Barack Obama faces a conundrum: He likely has to relinquish his coveted BlackBerry as part of his taking office on January 20. But as recently as last week he made it clear, once again, he’s not happy about it. One of the most enterprising, and humorous takes on his predicament can be [found](http://www.nydailynews.com/money/galleries/obama_cant_give_it_up_/obama_cant_give_it_up_.html#ph0) over […]

Mobile device users are remarkably open to advertising on their phones. The biggest mobile marketing gluttons so far? It’s iPhone users, according to new statistics from AdMob, a mobile Web site advertising provider. Smartphone operating systems, overall, generated 34 percent of total US-based mobile ad requests in December, 2008. That’s a 20 percent spike since […]

Storage titan EMC [announced](/storage/article.php/3795066/EMC+Trims+Staff+Levels+Despite+Record+Revenues.htm) layoffs last week, citing cost-efficiency as the primary reason. What it didn’t announce, as clearly, was that CEO Joe Tucci and senior executives are taking a pay cut and also foregoing bonuses for 2009. Oh, and one more thing — EMC is freezing employee pay as well with no salary or […]

Is Palm back in the game? Industry watchers are excited by the pioneering handset maker’s new webOS platform and its Pre smartphone, both of which made their debut this week at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But whether Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) can move fast enough to push out more webOS-compatible devices and […]

Apparently, Wi-Fi didn’t get the memo about the economy being in recession. New statistics released yesterday by the industry group Wi-Fi Alliance said chipset sales grew 26 percent in 2008. That’s only half of what it tallied in 2007 before the slowdown in the economy hit, but it shows that Wi-Fi networking remains robust. “The […]

The new Palm Pre smartphone, unveiled at CES 2009. Source: Palm. Click to enlarge. Embattled mobile device pioneer Palm is wagering that a new, cloud-centric smartphone platform called webOS and a curvy new phone, the Pre, will help to reverse its sagging fortunes. Both webOS and the Pre, the first phone to use the new mobile operating system, […]

EMC is laying off 2,400 workers, about 7 percent of its global 41,900 employee workforce, in a move to help ride out the economic recession. Yet unlike many of its peers who are reducing staff, EMC (NYSE: EMC) shows few overt signs of suffering from the global downturn. Instead, the top storage player said it’s […]

Samsung Electronics has introduced its latest solid state disk (SSD) offering a 100GB “green” hard drive that promises to cut energy costs by 75 percent over typical hard disk drives. The SSD product, announced during this week’s Storage Visions Conference being held in Las Vegas, is aimed at heavy content delivery environments such as streaming […]

Portland, Oregon has “4G” service as of Tuesday, after Clearwire launched its second deployment of WiMAX service. Clearwire called the service an “unmatched” combination of Internet speed and mobility for both businesses and homes. Tuesday’s Oregon deployment takes place three months after Sprint and Clearwire joined forces to deploy their initial Baltimore network  in September. The Sprint/Clearwire service, initially […]

While other major technology vendors may be approaching this week’s Consumer Electronics Show as an opportunity to show off their latest gadgets, the stakes are far higher for Palm. Industry observers say it’s nothing less than do or die time for the pioneering mobile device maker, which is expected at CES to show off the […]

Motorola is aiming to please social mobile users and those focused on environmentally-sound products with two new devices debuting this week at the CES expo in Las Vegas. The first is MotoSurf A3100, what Motorola terms a touch tablet smartphone. The smartphone, built on Windows Mobile 6.1, is aimed at meeting users’ social and work […]