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July 5, 2012  10:20 AM

BlackBerry: The Lincoln Town Car of smartphones



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
BlackBerry, iPhone, mobility, Network, smart phones

NPR's Planet Money podcast recently did an episode on Ford's luxury car brand Lincoln, and how far it's fallen. "Can Lincoln be cool again?" Apparently there was a time when the Lincoln Town Car was...

October 21, 2011  8:28 AM

RIM: Move on from BlackBerry



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Android, BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, mobility, smart phones

Sometimes it pays to move on, no matter how much you have invested in something. This summer Freakonomics Radio ran an episode titled "The Upside of Quitting," which poked holes in the old adage "winners never quit and...


September 7, 2011  7:27 AM

Can your WLAN keep up with the tablet explosion?



Posted by: rivkalittle
Aruba, Cisco, HP, Meru, Motorola, smart phones, tablets, wireless LAN, wlan growth

Research firm Canalys reports that the enterprise


November 5, 2010  3:41 PM

Motorola on the future of the wireless LAN controller



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Aerohive, Brocade, cloud, Extreme Networks, Meraki, Motorola, wireless LAN, wireless LAN controllers, Wireless networking, wlans

Recently Motorola announced a significant change to its wireless LAN architecture with its WiNG 5 announcement. With WiNG 5, Motorola is running identical...


October 8, 2010  4:22 PM

Motorola smartens access points, pulls back WLAN controllers



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
Aerohive, Aruba, Cisco, Enterasys, Meraki, Motorola, Networking, Wi-Fi, wireless LAN, Wireless networking

The role of the wireless LAN controller appliance is shifting dramatically. The days of the dumb access point are severely numbered. Motorola became just the latest WLAN vendor to deemphasize the role of its controller appliance in its architecture with its new


March 11, 2010  5:07 PM

Wireless LAN market on fire, Motorola closing in on Aruba while Cisco slips



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
802.11n, Alcatel-Lucent, Aruba, Cisco, Dell'Oro, HP ProCurve, Meru, Motorola, wireless LAN

Market research firm dell'Oro Group has published its latest quarterly market update on the wireless LAN industry. According...


December 3, 2009  5:11 PM

Motorola brand to disappear? I don’t think so



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
mergers & acquisitions, Mobile, Motorola, wireless LAN, Wireless networking

On the blog 24/7 Wall Street, Jon Ogg boldly predicted this week that Motorola is one of 10 brands that will disappear in 2010. It's time to break up the company and "scuttle a brand with a bad...


August 4, 2009  2:08 PM

The future of enterprise networking is no more networks



Posted by: Tessa Parmenter
Mobile, Network, Networking, Wireless, wireless LAN, Wireless networking

At Burton Group’s Catalyst Conference, I chatted briefly with speaker Matt Lavallee about how the conference was going, and he asked me this question: "Have there been any surprises for you?" In...


June 18, 2009  9:07 PM

Wireless LAN spending is down, 802.11n spending is up



Posted by: Shamus McGillicuddy
802.11n, Aruba, Cisco, HP ProCurve, Motorola, wireless LAN

Market analyst firm Dell'Oro published a 1st quarter assessment of the wireless LAN market which showed that a severe 11% drop in enterprise spending from the 1st...


September 30, 2008  2:03 PM

Overheard @ Interop NYC 2008: When high fashion and high tech collide



Posted by: Michael Morisy
BlackBerry, Cisco, Interop, Network

Vendor A: "Busy enough for you?" Vendor B: "Packed in here." --Two empty vendor booths
There's nothing quite like Vegas, I was told, right before tromping off to Interop New York, and boy were they right. No