David Needle

HP has taken a big picture look at its digital camera efforts and decided to retrench. The computer giant plans to continue selling HP-branded cameras through this holiday season, but expects to have a partnership agreement in place by the first half of 2008. The partner will be licensed to design, source and distribute digital […]

If you use Outlook, but have trouble keeping track of the glut of e-mail the Microsoft program collects, a solution may be at hand. The latest version of the ClearContext Information Management System (IMS) released this week, Version 4, extends the software’s ability to organize Outlook by priority and other criteria with three new key […]

For Eugene Lee, the decision this week to join enterprise wiki company Socialtext as its new CEO was a no-brainer. Lee, formerly an executive with Adobe and Cisco, said Socialtext is helping to lead the so-called “Enterprise 2.0” charge that he called both disruptive and sustainable. “It feels like we’re in the early phase of […]

Several big name telecom providers and a raft of software developers announced support for the Google-led Open Handset Alliance (OHA) announced on Monday. The OHA supports a Linux-based software platform called Android, owned by Google, that promises to make development of applications for mobile phones easier and less costly. While the initial list of official […]

It’s not a Google phone, per se, but the search engine and Internet technology giant is making good on its expected launch of a wide-ranging mobile phone initiative, today joining a group of big-name partners to announce an open software platform for mobile phones. Today’s debut of Android, a software platform for the development of […]

Google may finally go public with its “Google Phone” plans Monday. Rumors have been swirling that Google plans to make an announcement of some kind soon with a few of the largest U.S. wireless carriers, including Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless. A blog post in the Wall Street Journal’s online edition, citing unnamed sources, said […]

Social networking site Facebook garnered a huge amount of attention and developer support when it opened up its platform to outside developers earlier this year. Just last week, Microsoft announced it made an equity investment in the social networking powerhouse, paying $240 million for roughly a 1.6 percent stake, based on an overall valuation of […]

STANFORD, Calif. — With all eyes increasingly on low-cost notebook PC initiatives like One Laptop Per Child, there’s a new player in the discount notebook PC market — or is there? Taiwanese PC hardware manufacturer Asus announced the availability of its $399 Eee PC Internet “gadget” at an event here today. While the device performs […]

Cisco has launched a contest that promises to make for some very happy winners. The Cisco I-Prize is a global competition the company said is designed to help it find the next billion-dollar opportunity. The main requirement is that teams must use Cisco’s collaboration technologies to develop their projects. The winning team will get an […]

YouSendIt has formally launched its YouSendIt Corporate Suite for letting multiple users send and receive large files using one corporate account. While the original YouSendIt service is designed for individuals, Corporate Suite is less expensive for groups and offers more management and reporting capabilities. Specifically, five individual Business Plus YouSendIt accounts cost $150, while the […]

With the increasing popularity of Web 2.0 features, developers and testing professionals need sharper ways to track the user experience. Keynote Systems has introduced new versions of Transaction Perspective 8.0 and Application Perspective 5.0, the company’s Web performance monitoring products designed to handle the various features Web 2.0 produces. The new version of Transaction Perspective […]

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. -– Can you name one product with which the United States holds a sizable trade surplus over other countries? Try intellectual property (IP), the stuff we (individuals, businesses and academia) think up. “There’s a strong U.S. trade surplus for IP,” said Joseph Siino, Yahoo’s vice president for intellectual property, in a briefing here […]