David Needle

That was close. The State of California on Tuesday headed off a near-disastrous shutdown of its top-level domain that would have taken all of the state’s government Web sites offline. The problem began in Marin County, north of San Francisco. Hackers apparently compromised the county transportation authority’s Web site on Tuesday, redirecting traffic to pornographic […]

Consumers in the market for a VoIP phone, specifically a Skype-oriented one, will have a new model to consider next Tuesday when IPEVO begins selling its SOLO phone. The SOLO is a standalone, desktop corded phone that allows you to make Skype voice calls without a computer. With Skype software pre-installed, the company said the […]

Microsoft plans to roll out finished versions of several communications products and discuss future plans at an Oct. 16 event in San Francisco headlined by founder and chairman Bill Gates. The event is being billed as the formal launch of the software giant’s Unified Communications lineup, which includes its Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007 and […]

Customers of Google Apps Premier Edition now have new e-mail security features as a part of the company’s suite of hosted applications. Google on Wednesday announced that Apps Premiere will now integrate services from Postini, the e-mail security company Google purchased in July for $625 million in cash. “We had a goal of getting the […]

Server vendors may use a lot of the same components when it comes to enterprise servers, but customers have a definite preference for certain system brands. A just-released “Vendor Faceoff” study of enterprise buyers by Gabriel Consulting Group (GCG) shows IBM and HP in a two-horse race for the top spot with Sun and Dell […]

Cell phone giant Nokia can now add “navigation leader” to its list of technology assets. The Finnish company today announced plans to acquire Chicago-based Navteq, a leading provider of digital map information for automotive navigation systems, mobile navigation devices and Internet-based mapping applications. Under terms of the agreement, Nokia will pay $78 in cash for […]

MENLO PARK, CALIF. — The amazing power of the Internet as an information and communications source is trumpeted every day. But just talk to some of the guys who helped make the Internet what it is today, and the reviews aren’t quite as glowing. “Windows crashes, cell phone reception is horrible and the Internet drops […]

SAN DIEGO — The Demo conference is over but vendors managed to exhaust their product portfolios before the lights went out on tech-logged attendees. Google’s dominance doesn’t seem to deter startups from challenging the search giant. Exalead, which has been offering enterprise search for more than seven years, launched a more consumer-focused service that “lets […]

SAN DIEGO — Can an upstart technology dramatically outdo the price and performance of today’s storage area networks (SAN)? That’s the claim of Salt Lake City-based Fusion-io, which unveiled its ioDrive here at the Demo conference. The ioDrive PCIe card offers the equivalent throughput performance (though not the storage) of a thousand disk drives without […]

SAN DIEGO — While technology advances have made it easier than ever to connect to anyone in the world, too often the stuff just doesn’t work, or not as well as we’d like. Several companies showed off new services here at the Demo conference designed to simplify, improve and ensure routine communications come off with […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reportedly been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to testify in a stock-options back-dating case against Apple’s former general counsel, Nancy Heinen. Several news outlets, including the Associated Press, quoted unnamed sources close to the case as confirming Jobs was issued a subpoena last month, though he isn’t likely […]