David Needle

The wait is over for Leopard. Apple’s delayed, upcoming version of its OS X operating system will go on sale next week — sporting a slew of Microsoft-rivaling enhancements. Leopard, the codename for the sixth generation of the Mac’s OS X operating system, had been slated to be released in June. But Apple put the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — It was back to the future for Microsoft today. The company’s chairman and co-founder Bill Gates took the stage here to help launch the company’s Unified Communications (UC) software. In other words, he was here to talk phones. Gates told an audience of about 2,000 customers, partners and media that office phone […]

Microsoft will release more details of its Unified Communications (UC) strategy and vision today at an event in San Francisco headlined by its famous founder and chairman Bill Gates. On hand will be telecom giant Nortel, which said it plans to be first-to-market with the broadest portfolio of UC solutions and applications built around Microsoft’s […]

Google today announced the beta release of YouTube Video Identification, a tool the search giant said goes “above and beyond our legal responsibilities.” In a blog posting on the release, YouTube product manager David King said YouTube Video Identification will help copyright holders identify their works on YouTube and choose what they want done with […]

Remote support appliance play Bomgar is poised to boost its share of the market with new releases targeting businesses using Linux and Windows Mobile. Today, the company released Bomgar 10, the latest in its appliance-based remote control solutions designed to let companies provide technical support worldwide via the Internet. The new release adds versions for […]

Looking for a job? Chances are you’re using the Internet to find it. While going online for job opportunities isn’t new (the biggest jobs-related search site, Monster.com, started as a bulletin board system in 1994), the number of people going online in search of job listings is growing at an aggressive rate. In a […]

Reporter’s Notebook: ORLANDO -– Here’s a brief history lesson that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave IT professionals and CIOs at the recent Gartner IT/Symposium here. When a Gartner analyst asked Ballmer what the software giant was doing to exploit the trend of consumer technology being used by hordes of knowledge workers, he chuckled before answering. […]

ORLANDO — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stood before a packed crowd at the Gartner IT conference here and gave a bullish and often pointed outlook of Microsoft’s prospects. “In business computing, the other guys aren’t even as good as ‘me too,’” said Ballmer during the Q&A session with analysts. He did concede that Google is […]

ORLANDO – As new product waves and innovative technologies roll across the IT landscape, it can be tempting for IT shops to switch horses or consider another technology provider. Three Gartner analysts, here at the company’s conference, tackled the question of which of the leading enterprise technology providers has the best portfolio of software, services […]

ORLANDO — Industry analysts today urged IT shops to more closely follow trends in unified communications, virtualization and “green IT,” citing all three among the most critical technologies currently impacting the space. That’s according to Gartner Group analysts David Cearley and Carl Claunch, who discussed their top technology picks before an overflow audience of IT […]

The impact of software piracy and the illegal copying and distribution of other copyrighted works is hard to measure. The industry and watchdog groups regularly issue alarming statistics on the growing loss of billions in revenue caused by piracy. Of course, it’s hard to know what the true revenue loss is because you can’t assume […]

Two health-related Web sites are looking to get in better shape by helping each other. Revolution Health Group (RHG) and drugstore.com have signed a deal allowing RHG to aggregate drugstore.com’s traffic as part of its Revolution Health Network. Under the deal, RHG will manage advertising sales for drugstore.com, an online provider of health, beauty, vision, […]