Judy Mottl

BlackBerry Bold. Click to enlarge.Source: RIM Retailers in Japan are pulling the BlackBerry Bold from store shelves over concerns that the smartphones are prone to overheating while charging. BlackBerry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) told InternetNews.com that it voluntarily halted sales of the device while it works with the Bold’s exclusive Japanese carrier, NTT DoCoMo, […]

Document archiving giant Iron Mountain is aiming to scale another towering peak: cutting down on enterprises’ staggering storage costs by using the Web. The 58-year-old company — best known for its core, paper-based retention and archiving business — is expanding its online efforts with Virtual File Store (VFS), a hosted storage archiving solution that provides […]

Apple’s iPhone and iPod lead the pack mobile handset Wi-Fi in the U.S. use while Nokia’s handsets are dominant worldwide and the Symbian platform is tops in global Wi-Fi activity, according to a just-published report. Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) devices accounted for 29.1 percent of U.S. Wi-Fi Internet access requests in the U.S. for January, with […]

The Authors Guild, a writers advocacy group, is advising its members to ask Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) to disable its Kindle 2 “Read-to-Me” feature in light of murky copyright issues with text-to-voice recording of e-books. The guild contends the feature constitutes creation of a new literature format that would fall under copyright rules now protecting e-book […]

Motorola is banking on Android, the promising open source mobile platform, to help steer its floundering mobile device division into a positive revenue stream by 2010. Sanjay Jha, Co-CEO and mobile device leader at Motorola, told investors this week that his 2009-2010 smartphone road map features a variety of Android devices. He touted Android’s development […]

Rumors continue swirling around Microsoft’s next steps in the lucrative smartphone market, with a new report suggesting that the software colossus is planning its own mobile phone. But while Microsoft is dismissing the claims, other industry observers agree that it has to do something to reverse its slide with Windows Mobile in the face of […]

With sales of smartphones on a tear, it might not come as a surprise that enterprise workers are forgo their desktop phone in favor of advanced devices like the Apple iPhone. But by doing so, they’re likely to cause new headaches for IT, researchers warn. The number of business users who rely only on a […]

They’re back. Rumors of Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) foray into the smartphone market are once again in the news, thanks to a Wall Street Journal article that said the PC maker has been working on prototypes for the past year. The number 2 PC maker, which is struggling to stave off a continued erosion in PC […]

Source: Amazon Amazon may be writing the second chapter for the Kindle, its groundbreaking e-book reader. In what industry observers expect will be a launch event for version two of the Kindle, the e-tailer plans to hold an event Feb. 9 at Morgan Library & Museum in New York, with CEO Jeff Bezos on hand […]

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. […]