Roy Mark

Do we really need it? Can we get by with a smaller model? Do we really need this year’s latest and greatest update to cell phones and digital cameras? As the economy continues to totter, those are the questions electronic retailers most fear this holiday season. What retailers do know this year is not to […]

The media word on the street is that Verizon has fired the employees associated with the unauthorized access of President-elect Barack Obama’s mobile phone. According to CNN, the employees had limited access to Obama’s records and were unable to monitor his voice mail or text messages. Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam apologized for the incident, […]

The winds of change are sweeping Washington even before President-elect Barack Obama is sworn in Jan. 20, heralding new agenda priorities on a wide range of issues affecting technology, from climate change to health care reform to network neutrality. In the U.S. House, Democrats voted Nov. 20 to replace 82-year-old Rep. John Dingell-a powerful voice […]

Cloud computing has become so pervasive in the enterprise that even federal agencies are moving-slowly, of course-in the direction of on-demand computing. Given the current state of the economy and the yawning federal deficit, the efficiency and cost-savings associated with cloud computing may prompt an even quicker shift to the cloud. “In many cases, agencies […]

Enterprises followed the surging interest in text messaging in 2008, jumping considerably this year as the total number of enterprise messages delivered rose from 129 million to 227 million. Overall, according to VeriSign, combined mobile messaging networks have delivered 153 billion total messages since the beginning of 2008. In addition to the explosion in enterprise […]

It took 10 years, but legendary Vint Cerf, who is widely credited as one of the scientific founders of the Internet, has helped reach yet another Internet milestone: the first deep-space communications network modeled on the Internet. NASA announced Nov. 18 that engineers from NASA’s JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) used software that Cerf helped develop […]

Some of my colleagues are making much out of Microsoft’s lobbying efforts to kill the proposed Google-Yahoo advertising deal that ultimately led to the resignation of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. As the Iconoclast puts it, “In return for millions of dollars distributed to Washington insiders, Microsoft could save billions on an eventual Yahoo purchase.” This, […]

James Cicconi, AT&T’s senior executive vice president for external and legislative affairs, recently told my colleague Grant Gross that the network neutrality bills currently perking in Congress in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s election are unnecessary. “There’s a lot of people who now believe that companies like AT&T are not plotting to overthrow the open […]

Proxim Wireless rolled out its 802.11n dual-radio solution Nov. 17, promising 320M bps of throughput. Proxim said its single radio version could hit maximum speeds of 170M bps. The speeds are almost seven times faster than current wireless networks. In addition to designing the industry’s fastest 802.11n access point, Proxim says its end-to-end broadband wireless […]

Since technology is the key to virtually all of President-elect Barack Obama’s plans for sweeping changes in the direction of the country and the way Washington does business with its citizens, it is not surprising Obama brings a decidedly different technology agenda to the White House than President Bush did eight years ago. Bush praised […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt may have eliminated himself from the running to be Barack Obama’s CTO, but Google is still going full-bore to influence the new administration’s technology policy, no doubt to the telecommunications companies’ annoyance that theirs is no longer the only point of view in town. Schmidt told CNBC’s Jim Cramer Nov. 7 […]

Motorola introduced a unified, enterprise-class wireless communications platform Nov. 11 that combines Windows Mobile-based voice over wireless LAN smart phones with two servers, one for integration with traditional office PBX systems and the other for providing centralized provisioning and device management. Designed to provide enterprise users with mobile access to voice and data services normally […]