David Needle

SAN FRANCISCO — Mashups could be the next big technology push from IBM , and the company has internal deployments and customer engagements to prove it. Unlike Google  and others, though, IBM’s interest in mashups is primarily on the corporate side. The company demonstrated a Mashup Hub server application at the Web 2.0 conference here […]

We’ve all done it. You type in the URL to a Web site, but make a slight misspelling and find yourself staring at a home page very different than the one you expected. So-called cybersquatters have been able to make a lot of money off these typo and misdirected URLs. Last year Microsoft filed three […]

The Internet’s in trouble. We’ve been hearing that for years. But although there have been glitches, the World Wide Web for the most part has been humming along just fine. But Deloitte Consulting thinks 2007 will be the year of some serious slowdowns in service. Deloitte raised some eyebrows at the beginning of the year […]

IBM released three new members of its BladeCenter family today with a focus on energy efficiency features. For the first time, IBM is also offering an optional modular 4 GB USB drive that uses Flash storage as an alternative to a traditional hard disk. The new offerings include the BladeCenter HS21 ($3,067 or $3,189, based […]

SAN FRANCISCO – To hear Google tell it, the person doing a search on a home PC is “the same guy” who uses search in the enterprise. Microsoft says that may be true, but that doesn’t mean they have the same needs. In a panel discussion here at the Gilbane content management conference, officials from […]

Dell is giving IT buyers a choice of two new PowerEdge servers: standard and “Energy Smart.” The two PowerEdge 2970 models are based on AMD’s latest dual-core Opteron processor (2.8 GHz) and are upgradeable to AMD’s quad-core “Barcelona” processor due this summer. The standard 2970 is available today starting at $1,849 while the Energy Smart […]

Claria is far from the first company to try and make using the Web a more personalized experience, but the Redwood City, Calif.-based firm claims to have one of the most effective solutions and it’s got plenty of test data to go by. Claria said some 800,000 users have tried a test version of its […]

Sandisk and Yahoo  have joined forces as the latest challenger to Apple’s market leading line of iPod music players. The new Sansa Connect sports a number of features not found in a standard iPod, including Wi-Fi connectivity and several Yahoo services like Launchcast Internet Radio, the Flicker photo sharing service and Yahoo Messenger. The $249.99 […]

ClearCube, a leader in PC blades, is adding support for VMWare’s ESX3 Server. The virtualization move is part of the company’s Sentral version 5.5 being announced today, with availability slated for May. Much as a server blade packs the key elements of a server onto a circuit board, ClearCube includes a central processor, memory, hard […]

Starting this October 15, VeriSign will increase the registration fee it charges for the popular .com and .net domain names. The .com fee, currently $6, will go to $6.42 while .net will rise to $3.85 from the current $3.50. Last November, VeriSign reached an agreementwith ICANN  to continue managing the .com registry until 2012. Under […]

SAN FRANCISO — Autonomy has unveiled a unique solution to the issue of copyright protection. The company’s Virage division has released Automatic Copyright Infringement Detection (ACID) software that promises to automatically detect any rich media that infringes an organization’s copyright. The idea is to eliminate the need for content owners to spend time trawling through […]

Consumers have unprecedented access to high tech medical devices, with items like blood pressure and heart rate monitors available at low cost. But getting the information off those devices and over to a PC, transmitted online, or over to another device for printing or viewing, isn’t always possible or cheap. The non-profit USB Implementer’s Forum […]