Judy Mottl

While this week’s financial fallout from Wall Street will affect corporate IT spend, high-end smartphone makers won’t experience any great pains given mobile handsets are critical business devices and market shakeup could even bring new business opportunities. “Overall there will not be a big impact, though any time the economy is tough technology will experience […]

The BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220Source: RIM Research In Motion is betting a new phone design will lead to greater appeal beyond its core enterprise user base, today announcing its first flip-open, clamshell-style BlackBerry — the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220. The Flip 8220’s dramatic design change, which also switches out the full QWERTY-style keyboard for a […]

One could almost see the saloon doors flapping, feel the dust coming off a dirt road and hear the unsnapping of holsters as IBM unveiled its new storage portfolio strategy today — clearly spoiling for a showdown with EMC. Instead of selling customers standalone hardware, or hawking an single enhancement to a software tool as […]

Cloud storage boasts a relatively low price point and advantages like scalability, flexibility, easy access and increasing vendor choices. But as the nascent technology continues to attract attention, its growing prominence means that its shortcomings are also being brought into the limelight Even as the technology has grown over the past two years, experts warn […]

HP is shipping its second business-focused smartphone which it describes as “texting friendly,” but industry watchers aren’t very convinced the mobile device will make much of a dent in today’s competitive marketplace. The $499 unlocked 3G HP iPAQ 912 Series Business Messenger, which features GPS and HP’s Enterprise Mobility Suite of applications on Windows Mobile […]

New research from IBM claims the vendor’s solid state disk (SSD) storage efforts are attaining greater performance capabilities than competitor’s to the tune of a 250 percent increase in input/output per second in current data-transfer rates, while proving more cost efficient. IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) SSD storage research, code-named ‘Project QuickSilver’ is an “ongoing cross-IBM initiative” […]

While AT&T and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) continue to wrestle with complaints related to 3G network issues with the latest iPhone, an analyst firm speculates Research in Motion may be delaying its latest product release to avoid the same problem. A report by Citi Investment Research, speculates RIM may be moving back the release of its […]

Research in Motion hasn’t even delivered the Bold, its latest BlackBerry, to the U.S. market, yet new applications for the smartphone are already hitting the market. One is EQO’s free mobile Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and multi-network compatible mobile instant messaging software. The software provides cheap calls and free texting capabilities as well instant […]

Solid state disk (SSD) drives currently cost as much as 30 times more than Fibre Channel drives, but the return is impressive. The high cost has kept SSDs primarily tied to high-end enterprises that can afford such pricey performance. But given that prices for SSDs are dropping rapidly, the drives may become more ubiquitous than […]

Yes, Virginia, the iPhone is ready for the enterprise. Just barely, that is, as there’s still room for improvement on everything from application support to security to calendar access. Yet Apple’s latest handset is now viewed as a legitimate enterprise mobile device, according to a new Gartner report. “It’s acceptable for enterprise use if the […]