Michelle Megna

Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) today reported a drop in quarterly profits and an outlook that came in shy of Wall Street estimates. For its second fiscal quarter of 2010, ended Aug. 29, RIM said income came in at $475.6 million, or $0.83 a share, down 4 percent from a profit of $495.5 million, or […]

The eBay iPhone app is proving to be profitable for eBay, with the company realizing $380 million in sales through the iPhone within the first nine months of this year, said CEO John Donahoe, during a [keynote speech at the Shop.org](http://blog.shop.org/2009/09/23/ebay-ceo-discusses-mobile-customer-feedback-and-embracing-competition/) event this week. The eBay chief said the online marketplace is making mobile a […]

Google’s app for Windows Mobile phones got some love today from the search giant in the form of three new features. Designed to make mobile search of Google faster and easier, the updates include My Location, Google Suggest and Search with Maps, writes Craig Wilkinson, software engineer, at the [Google mobile blog](http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-mobile-app-for-windows-mobile.html). The location feature […]

Sybase and Siemens Enterprise Communications (SEN) Group just joined forces to provide customers with an integrated mobile and fixed-line voice and data service targeted at making unified communications and mobile work together more efficiently. The new offering marries Sybase’s mobile device management capabilities with the SEN Group’s fixed mobile convergence (FMC) technology to provide a […]

IBM today released a new subscription-based management service for the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution platform aimed at helping companies to budget their mobility costs more efficiently. The newly unveiled IBM Mobile Enterprise Services for the BlackBerry Enterprise Solution is a service designed to simplify management, technical support and cost of a client’s BlackBerry deployment, while making […]

In just over four months, the Palm Pre is making progress in mindshare, second only to the iPhone 3GS, says a study out today. While the iPhone and its apps are nothing less than a cultural touchstone, it appears that the Palm Pre is also getting some of those warm-fuzzy feelings consumers attach to Apple’s […]

Click on the graphic for a larger view. Source: iRex A new e-reader backed by Verizon, Barnes & Noble and Qualcomm is getting ready to take on the leaders Amazon and Sony in the budding e-reader market. The iRex DR800SG, due out next month, sports several features the popular Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle doesn’t: an 8.1-inch […]

Palm’s strategy in its ongoing spat with Apple may have backfired. The creator of the Pre smartphone has been fighting efforts by Apple to block the Pre from synchronizing music with its iTunes software. In July, Palm appealed to a key hardware standards organization, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), to complain about Apple. According to […]

Voice over IP service Skype is striving to make good on efforts to increase its prominence in the enterprise, thanks to several new partnerships with IP-based PBX businesses. The VoIP firm today said it now supports Cisco’s Unified Communications 500 Series for Small Business telephone system — courtesy of Skype for SIP, a version of […]

Ahead of next month’s rollout of its first Android-based smartphone, Sprint is moving to encourage developers to create applications based on the Google-backed open source mobile software and that will run on its network. New to the Sprint Application Developer Web site today are tools and information for creating Android apps for the Sprint network. […]

A new company launching today aims to help mobile developers create smartphone widgets that bridge the gap between Web and native applications. Developers can use the WidgetPad platform to create hybrid Web-based mobile applications using standard Web technologies such as HTML 5, CSS3 and JavaScript and distribute them as stand-alone applications to smartphone app stores. […]

Are iPhone OS update glitches spurring defections of the Apple faithful? If recent reports involving poor battery life, a surprise — and controversial — fix for Microsoft Exchange encryption and Wi-Fi glitches are believed, that might be the case. Owners of Apple’s iPhone who upgraded recently to the new operating system version 3.1 are flooding […]