David Needle

It’s hardly the top reason well-heeled consumers are clamoring for the iPhone, but its voice mail management is one of the device’s cooler features. Instead of having to listen sequentially to voice mail messages, you can pick and choose which voice mail message to listen to. Now other cell phone makers are going to be […]

How often do you need help finding someone? Perhaps more often than you realize. Online directories, search engines and other resources you can use to find people on the Web are hardly new. But many of these don’t do a great job because they either aren’t tuned to a specific people-finder function or they’re hard […]

CUPERTINO, Calif. — The iPhone is Apple’s hottest product but CEO Steve Jobs made it clear here at the rollout of new iMacs that the desktop systems are a crucial part of the company’s growth plan. Apple was, of course, one of the pioneers of the personal computer industry. But Jobs said the PC is […]

UPDATED: CUPERTINO, Calif. – The iMac’s got a tough act to follow, what with the industry going gaga over Apple’s big summer iPhone news. But Apple has computers to keep making, and CEO Steve Jobs announced today that the Mac show is good and strong. He took the stage in a small auditorium here on […]

Sybase plans to give its developers and partners a preview of future plans at its TechWave conference today in Las Vegas. The company also plans to announce a global alliance with HTC, a leading provider of Microsoft Windows Mobile “smart” devices, such as T-Mobile’s Dash. Sybase’s long-term “Unwired Enterprise” mobile initiative will be top of […]

Reporter’s Notebook PALO ALTO — Talk about walking into the lion’s den. Controversial author Andrew Keen participated in a panel discussion before a roomful of Web entrepreneurs, executives and online media types in the wrap-up session of the AlwaysOn conference here. If that wasn’t enough, a giant screen onstage projected bloggers’ snide comments on the […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – Will the Internet be here in 20 years? That was the provocative topic a panel of industry heavyweights tackled at the AlwaysOn conference here. A follow-on panel discussed where news is headed on the Web. In short, the panel agreed that something called the Internet will be around in 20 years, […]

UPDATED: PALO ALTO, Calif. — A grab bag of Web services and technologies took the stage here at the AlwaysOn Conference at Stanford University. There was no real theme to yesterday’s opening, but there was plenty of new fodder for the technorati in the audience to feast on. Former Senator John McCain was given a […]

Road warriors looking for anytime anywhere access to their personal data and applications have a new alternative. The MojoPac Enterprise Suite essentially lets IT departments setup their choice of USB mobile storage devices for users to securely access their applications and data. The USB storage device can then be plugged into any notebook or desktop […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Just as AMD gets set to ship its long-awaited quad-core “Barcelona” processor for servers and workstations, the chipmaker laid out a roadmap for smaller computer devices that won’t see the light of day till 2009. At a “Technology Day” here for analysts at its Silicon Valley headquarters, AMD  laid out its product […]

Digg is looking to grow its advertising revenue with the help of a new, big partner – Microsoft. The software giant and Digg, the popular content aggregation and rating site, announced an agreement to collaborate to bring relevant advertising to Digg’s over 17 million unique monthly visitors. As part of the agreement, which is for […]

Ready for 2009? You may not yet be thinking of what specs the server you buy in two years will have, but AMD is giving system makers a heads up on some of its plans. Wednesday AMD  announced Socket G3 Memory Extender (G3MX) for a future Opteron platform. G3MX is designed to let server makers […]