David Needle

You can do amazing things with today’s more advanced mobile phones. But for most users, video is more novelty than necessary. Delivery is typically choppy and picture quality poor. Ortiva Wireless provides content providers with a hosted solution it claims delivers the smoothest video, clearest audio and richest multimedia experience to mobile users under highly […]

Looking to build on its fast-growing mobile business, SAP this week announced several upgrades and new products in its lineup. The announcements include a new version of the SAP NetWeaver platform, as well as updates to SAP xApps composite applications for mobile business suite. SAP said its mobile business has grown over 50 percent year […]

Gateway  is the latest company plagued with a problem that just won’t go away. Today the company announced another voluntary recall of some 14,000 lithium ion battery packs shipped as the primary or spare battery pack for Gateway 400VTX and 450ROG series notebooks sold during a three-month period from May 2003 to August 2003. The […]

Few companies complain about not having enough information; most are up to their necks in it. But getting the right information to the right people at the right time is an ongoing challenge. According to research firm IDC, the average enterprise employee spends 9 to 10 hours per week searching for information but is successful […]

Vista may be, as Microsoft promotes it, the software giant’s “most secure operating system” to date, but that doesn’t mean it’s not vulnerable to attacks. Checkpoint Software today added itself to the growing list of Vista security software providers. Microsoft itself has issued several Vista security patches since its release. Redwood City, Calif.-based Checkpoint said […]

CMP announced a major restructuring that includes shuttering some print titles and cutting about 200 jobs, an 18 percent reduction in staff. The Manhasset, N.Y., tech publisher said the move was prompted by a decline in print revenue and growth of its online and events business. On the print side, the emphasis will be on […]

SAN FRANCISCO — With its developer resources focused on getting the iPhone ready and finishing the next version of the Mac operating system, no one expected many surprises here at the opening of Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC). But then, Steve Jobs is not one to waste his stage presence rehashing old news. The Apple […]

Competition for running Windows software on the Macintosh is heating up. Apple will issue an update on the next release of its operating system, codenamed Leopard, on Monday at its developer’s conference in San Francisco. Leopard will include Apple’s “Bootcamp” software for running Windows applications. Yesterday, Parallels released Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac, a new […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — SAP brought out its top brass to show off the big iron inside its new Co-Innovation Lab here today. Executives from a number of tech companies, including HP , Intel , Cisco  and NetApp joined SAP CEO Henning Kagerman and other top execs at the unveiling of the lab which includes […]

Most of the reports about the historic meeting between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs last week, including ours, noted how surprisingly nice the two tech titans were to each other. For sure, there was a lot of good-spirited chatter between the long-time rivals as they traveled down memory lane to simpler, friendlier times during the […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. – For the first time, Sun is supporting three different chip architectures in a blade form factor. The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System is available with blades based on AMD Opteron, Intel Xeon and Sun’s own UltraSparc T1 processor A very distant runner up to HP  and IBM  in blades, Sun re-entered […]

In what a company executive called a “pretty radical upgrade” and “the biggest release in our history,” Six Apart today released a free beta of its Movable Type 4.0 (MT4) blogging platform. The San Francisco company also announced plans to release the first open source version of its popular Movable Type blogging software this summer. […]