David Needle

SAN FRANCISCO — HP is ramping up its server and blade line with new products as well as a major new version of its HP-UX 11i operating system, HP-UX 11i v3. The computer and printer giant added to its Integrity line with the addition of an r2660 entry class server and the Integrity BL860c Server […]

Dell has hired the CEO of Solectron  to the newly created position of president of its global operations. Solectron is a leading provider of electronics manufacturing services and counts Dell as one of its many big name customers. The hiring of Michael Cannon is the first major move Dell’s made since founder Michael Dell replaced […]

Micron is targeting the next generation of mobile phones with more storage and better image sensors. The semiconductor maker expects camera phones and other mobile devices that incorporate its latest technology to be available this fall in time for the holiday shopping season. Along with HP and other mobile device makers, Micron  made its announcement […]

The latest entrant in the search game isn’t looking to capture another vertical niche or tiny piece of the search pie. No, Powerset said it plans to challenge market leader Google  with a natural language search engine. The San Francisco-based company is licensing technology from the famed Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where the first […]

You might think attendees at a security conference would take extra precautions to ensure their notebooks’ safety. Think again. According to mobile security vendor AirDefense, some 56 percent of 623 wireless devices at the RSA conference in San Francisco were susceptible to attacks, based on its study of wireless traffic at the show Tuesday. But […]

SAN FRANCISCO –- VeriSign  CEO Stratton Sclavos said Internet security threats are growing and he gently chastised the industry for not doing more to help consumers stay out of harm’s way. “The security industry is the laggard,” said Sclavos during his keynote session at the RSA Conference 2007. “We’ve always said if we force customers […]

When is free not a good deal? When it locks you into last year’s technology. That’s the argument some San Francisco activists are taking in protest of the City by the Bay’s plan to offer free Wi-Fi access. Last year Google and Earthlink won a joint bid to provide free Wi-Fi access to San Francisco […]

The convenience of tiny Flash drives is also their downfall when it comes to IT security. The hugely popular tiny Flash devices, also called “thumb” and “keychain” drives, provide an easy way to move files from desktop to notebook computer and transport files and data in your pocket. But that ease-of-use can be a nightmare […]

Web acceleration giant Akamai , based in Cambridge, Mass, looked to Silicon Valley for its latest acquisition, Mountain View, Calif. based Netli. The transaction, subject to the normal regulatory approvals, is worth about $177 million, or 3.2 million shares of Akamai common stock at today’s closing price of $55. The acquisition of Netli is expected […]

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Both the free-wheeling nature of the Internet and security solutions were on display at DEMO, a two-day industry conference here this week that wraps up today. Alcatel-Lucent Ventures previewed “Project Evros” technology developed at Bell Labs. The company’s Mobile Endpoint Management System is a wireless platform that includes a 3G PCMCIA […]

PALM DESERT, Calif. — The non-stop praise and huzzahs took a brief time out here at the DEMO conference, where dozens of new technology presenters have been regularly applauded and praised. Late Wednesday, Tom Gillis, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at security provider IronPort, sounded the alarm on the growing problem of spam and […]

PALM DESERT, Calif. — A printer that doesn’t need ink shared the stage here this morning with a preview of Symantec’s Identity Client software and Worklight, a server-based software application designed to let users access enterprise data using Web 2.0-style interfaces. It’s all part of the DEMO Conference, a technology smorgasbord of new products and […]