I was a bit shocked by this one. ZDNet ran with the title “RIM’s CIO: We record all employee calls to protect intellectual property“. The piece was based on an interview ZDNet Australia with Robin Bienfait, CIO of RIM.
“Everything I have that’s on RIM is recorded and retained as RIM. So if they want to have [...]

Only last night I was reminiscing with an ex-Nortel chap about the ‘big’ old names and how they were what they once were in the networking space. Low and behold, this morning I see this headline: “Samsung steals Motorola’s claim to fame, takes number one spot in US phone sale” (on Engaget, from a Reuters piece).
The times they [...]

I just heard that Amos E Joel, died this week, aged 90. Who was he? He is often referred to as the father of switching, he pioneered the mobile phone and counted over 70 patents to his name (for more of his long list of achievements see his Wikipedia entry). All of us in the networking [...]

Motorola is using their mobile strengths to build a business VoWLAN solution. They have created a mobil office communications device that includes PBX telephony, push-to-talk, PIM (e-mail, calendar, and address book), text messaging, Internet access, and business applications. They are expected to extend the functionality to Windows Mobile phones such as the Moto Q.
It is called [...]