Carol Ellison

“Messaging in general and e-mail specifically” remain the killer applications in the mobile world, but that may soon change, David Nagel, president and CEO of PalmSource Inc., said at Research in Motion Ltd.s third annual Wireless Enterprise Symposium. The Palm OS is experiencing “enormous support by developers” and Palm has seen an acceleration in sign-ups […]

Question: When is a Wi-Fi vulnerability not a vulnerability? Answer: When the vulnerability plays into defenses against attacks. That may be the case with an advisory issued this week by AusCERT, Australias national computer emergency response team. The advisory described how a protocol characteristic of wireless networks can be exploited to stage a denial-of-service (DoS) […]

Microsofts exit from 802.11 hardware sales testifies to a management truism coined more than 20 years ago by management guru Tom Peters in his classic corporate opus, “In Search of Excellence”: stick to the knitting. From the moment the company announced it was getting into the Wi-Fi hardware market, it looked like the company had […]

Remember when romance was defined by songs on the radio dedicated to the one you love? Sure you do. But what does that have to do with mobile and wireless? The answer lies with Telenor, a Norwegian telecom that has devised a way to make money off of consumer-focused, value-added mobile applications with relatively few […]

No one can say that 2003 has not been kind to the channel. Its profit picture—not to mention its performance on Wall Street—promises to end the year on a high note not seen around these parts since 2000. With the Nasdaq flirting with the 2000 mark and the Dow marching steadily toward 1400, phrases like […]

Citrix Systems Inc. on Thursday announced its acquisition of Expertcity Inc., the Santa Barbara, Calif., company that makes GoToMyPC and GoToAssist, in a cash-stock transaction valued at approximately $225 million. The deal expands Citrixs portfolio of offerings to the desktop in what Citrix officials are touting as a move that will allow the company to […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—The future of value-add services in the Wi-Fi space can be summed up in one word: roaming. Without roaming agreements to simplify the billing and log-on procedures that now complicate the use of Wi-Fi hotspots, user adoption cannot achieve the kind of critical mass needed to make Wi-Fi value-added services truly profitable. That […]

Ellison: When will you be rolling out the new partner programs? Flynn: Weve looked at how we have been doing our partner programs, and we wanted to focus on making changes. So we started this project about a year ago. its coming to fruition in the January time frame. We decided to roll it out […]

Computer Associates introduced a new channel program in July, one that abandons the long-honored tiered system. Gone are costly training and certification programs that treated the channel as a revenue center. In their place is a model driven by sales. Channel Zone Editor Carol Ellison recently caught up with Computer Associates Alan Komet, Channel Manager […]

Las Vegas—Computer Associates took a giant step toward the retail channel Tuesday. In a joint announcement with Microsoft at the COMDEX show here, CA said it would make one-year subscriptions to CAs eTrust EZ Armor antivirus and firewall desktop security suite available to qualified Windows home users at no cost. The announcement, which extends CAs […]

Tucked into Novells announcement last week that it was acquiring Suse for $210 million was a paragraph that got little attention in the press but a lot of attention among Novells channel partners. “Novell today also announced that IBM intends to make a $50 million investment in Novell convertible preferred stock. In addition, Novell and […]