David Needle

UPDATED: Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs did an amazing thing at Macworld Expo Tuesday. He brought together two fierce rivals and giants of the Internet industry (Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Yahoo’s Chief Yahoo, Jerry Yang) to help celebrate the unveiling of the Apple iPhone. But one day later, all that iPhone talk would infuriate another […]

Reporter’s Notebook: SAN FRANCISCO — When Steve Jobs unveiled Apple’s first Intel-based Macs at last year’s Macworld Expo it was major news at the most appropriate of venues. Tens of thousands of Mac faithful were on hand to get their first look at and hands-on experience with the new systems, which were an instant hit. […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple CEO Steve Jobs is known for making big announcements at Macworld Expo. Today would be no different, especially when he teased the crowd by promising three “breakthroughs” this time around: a cell phone, a wide-screen iPod and an Internet Communicator. But Jobs, in his fashion, finally revealed the breakthroughs as one […]

When Sun reentered the blade market last year it promised to bring new value to the market and not another me-too offering. That strategy continues with today’s announcement of a unique hardware subscription service for the Sun Blade X8420 system. Sun  said the subscription service is for customers who want the latest, most powerful processors […]

Skype and Nokia  are teaming up to bring VoIP  to tablet computers. The N800 is a successor to the company’s N770 Internet tablet and adds a full onscreen finger keyboard, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections and an integrated Web camera. The N800 tablet computer will be loaded with software from Skype,  in the first partnership deal […]

In the Star Trek shows, the spaceship’s shields always seem to be under attack and buckling, but they never break. The same might be said of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ famous reality distortion field. With the Macworld Expo gearing up, traditionally the scene of major Apple product roll outs, Jobs finds himself part of the […]

Mobility is going to be a big trend at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. In addition to the many new notebooks and smart phones, startup WildCharge is slated to preview its unique charging technology. WildCharge, based in Scottsdale, AZ, said it has the first true full-power, wire-free electricity for mobile […]

UPDATED: The rise in interest in Google’s own blog in 2006 paled next to the millions of new users of its eponymous search service, but there was definitely an up tick. Google itself gave readers plenty more to read in the past year. For example, the company made its 294th blog posting of the year […]

Energy savings is very much on the minds of cost-conscious IT managers these days. Verdiem addresses an often-overlooked part of the energy equation: PCs. The Seattle-based company’s Surveyor utility helps IT departments measure, manage and reduce its network’s energy consumption to save money and lower the network’s total cost of ownership. Verdiem claims it can […]

Samsung Electronics said it has develop the industry’s first 1 gigabit (Gb) mobile DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory)  for mobile products that will be more cost-effective than the double-die stack, 1Gb solutions currently in use for digital still cameras, portable media and game players and advanced handsets. Samsung said an advantage of the 1Gb mobile […]

Internetnews.com editors provide an early roadmap for tech’s direction in 2007. IT management isn’t the first place you would start looking for environmental activists. But in 2006, the people in charge of buying and deploying computer technology found the concept of green computing extra compelling. Analysts say the main reason is cost, energy and space […]

E-commerce juggernaut Amazon reported this holiday season was its best ever in terms of volume sales. And holiday shoppers didn’t even wait until the last minute to take advantage, either. Amazon said Monday, Dec. 11 was its busiest day ever with over 4 million items sold compared to 3.6 million items a year ago. Although […]