Mobile-phone sales continue to be hurt by the faltering economy, so vendors are increasingly looking to software and services to …
Is it time to cut the Ethernet access cable?
A range of companies with wireless LANs are discovering that 50% to 90% or more of Ethernet ports now go …
Motorola pushes ahead with Android phones by holiday season
Motorola Inc. is on track to have Android-based smartphones on sale in stores in time for the holiday buying season, …
Illinois programmer sues Google over ‘Android’
The owner of an obscure Illinois software development company is suing Google Inc. and everyone else in the Open Handset …
Cautious optimism for the future
In the last month alone, we have had Mark Templeton (Citrix), David DeWalt (McAfee) and John Chen (Sybase) in this …
Acer working on several Android devices
Acer Inc. is already working on several different devices using Google Iinc.'s Android operating system and software, and it plans …
Acer beat Asus in netbooks in ’08, to ship up to 12M in ’09
Acer edged out rival Asustek Computer to lead the world in netbook shipments last year. The world's third-largest computer vendor …
Windows Mobile to get voice command capability
Microsoft has high hopes that a new speech-recognition application for the forthcoming Windows Mobile operating system will be attractive enough …
IBM to resell Brocade’s Foundry switches
Brocade has extended an OEM relationship with IBM to include its recently acquired Foundry switches in a deal that appears …
Samsung unveils its first Google phone
Samsung Electronics Co. became the first major mobile phone maker to launch a smartphone based on Google Inc.'s Android software. …
Qualcomm to pay Broadcom $891M in patent settlement
Qualcomm Inc., the world's largest maker of mobile phone chips, agreed to pay chip designer Broadcom Corp. $891 million to …
How Bluetooth got as fast as Wi-Fi
Bluetooth last week stopped being chained to the low-power, low-throughput radio that has been both its strength and its weakness. …
Hands on: Running Windows 7 on a netbook
Microsoft made headlines recently when The Wall Street Journal reported that the company planned to equip netbooks with the Starter …
Is mobile computing the Achilles’ heel in your organization?
Mobile computing, from laptops to the myriad handheld devices such as smartphones, BlackBerries, iPhones, USB tokens and PDAs, can certainly …