David Needle

Consumer printers are improving all the time. Maybe too much for some casino operators. The California Attorney General’s office announced late Thursday the arrest of two counterfeiters caught feeding fake $100 bills into slot machines at a Tribal Casino in Mendocino County. “These two bandits used home printers to make fake bills that tricked casino […]

We’ve got BlackBerrys, Treos, T-Mobile Sidekicks, other PDAs and now the Apple iPhone. Knowledge workers are increasingly putting their personal mobile devices to work in the enterprise leaving IT departments with numerous support and security issues. “It’s a huge problem for IT departments today because all these mobile devices are unmanaged,” said Roger Kay, president […]

Reporter’s Notebook: SAN FRANCISCO — “I’ll take Wacky Applications for $50 Alex.” Actually, there was no sign of Jeopardy game show host Alex Trebek at the TechCrunch 40 conference here, but there were some wacky applications on display. Three of the more off-the-beaten track apps included an online speed dating service, Nintendo Wii-like motion detector […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Web 2.0 startups mixed with more established computer companies at the inaugural TechCrunch 40 conference here. One of the highlights was an early evening “fireside chat” keynote by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg Monday, who made it clear he thinks the social-networking platform will be around a long time. While the […]

Reporter’s Notebook: We’ve all heard by now about the iPhone being hacked so it can be used by other telecom carriers instead of AT&T. That exercise, by a number of groups, was hardly trivial, but neither is finding out something as seemingly simple as the parts that make up the device. “Every time we tear […]

There’s Software as a Service (SaaS). Now IBM has teamed up with StrikeIron to help enterprise and business customers get Data as a Service (DaaS). The deal adds seven of StrikeIron’s data services as widgets on IBM’s Mashup Hub. From there, users can drag and drop the data into IBM’s QEDWiki, a browser-based framework for […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged four more former Nortel Networks executives in its widening investigation into past accounting practices of the telecom firm. The amended complaint in SEC v. Dunn charges Douglas A. Hamilton, Craig A. Johnson, James B. Kinney and Kenneth R.W. Taylor, the former vice presidents of finance for Nortel’s Optical, […]

VMware  has released “a majority” of its VMware Tools as open source software. The announcement, part of the company’s Open Virtual Machine Tools (Open-VM-Tools) project, was made today at its VMworld conference in San Francisco. The company said VMware Tools is a set of guest operating system virtualization components designed to improve the performance and […]

It’s been a busy summer for VMware, and the virtualization kingpin wants to keep the momentum going. In conjunction with the start of its VMworld 2007 conference in San Francisco this week, VMware announced ESX Server 3i, a next-generation “thin” version of its hypervisor, designed to be integrated in servers. The company also announced VMware […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Don’t tell AMD’s CEO Hector Ruiz that the long-awaited release of the chip firm’s Quad-Core AMD Opteron will keep it in the server game with arch-rival Intel. “That makes my hair stand up,” Ruiz told a small group of reporters today ahead of the chip’s formal introduction later tonight. “I don’t know […]

Reporter’s Notebook: SAN FRANCISCO — Demos, panel discussions, product introductions. The Office 2.0 conference had all these typical trade show elements, but the producers went out on a limb to mix things up a bit with new and different elements. For starters, each paid attendee (no love for the freeloading press folks) received an Apple […]

SAN FRANCISCO — What is Web 2.0’s place in the enterprise? Attendees took on the question from multiple angles at the Office 2.0 conference here. While there seemed to be agreement that corporate adoption of Web technologies like blogs and Wikis is inevitable, there were different views on how to get there and the potential […]