David Needle

PALO ALTO, Calif. — A lot of tech companies will tell you that their customers rely on their software. That’s no surprise. But there is something a little different about that claim when enterprise application vendor SAP says it. “At a big company like Siemens or Nestle or Colgate, if you take away Microsoft or […]

Internetnews.com wades through the top stories and issues that rocked the industry in 2006 in this week-long series. The race to see who had the fastest x86 chips ended with a whimper — not a bang — in 2006. For years, AMD  and Intel  have been in an arms race for bragging rights to who […]

The U.S. government’s investigation of price-fixing in the Dynamic Random Access Memory  industry has netted another Samsung executive. Young Hwan Park, currently president of Samsung Electronics’ U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor, has agreed to plead guilty, serve jail time in the U.S. and pay a fine for his participation in a global conspiracy to fix DRAM […]

Google is taking more than one small step in formalizing its relationship with a NASA research facility. This week, the search giant announced it signed a Space Act agreement with NASA Ames Research Center. The two groups said they plan to work jointly on a range of technical problems from large-scale data management and massively […]

Tapping into the growing interest and promise of virtualization, IBM and Intel have teamed up to try and help IT managers quantify the value of the technology. Specifically, the computer and chip giants said they are working together on new tools to help IT select, deploy and measure virtualized server solutions for enterprise data centers. […]

Unix customers gave a big thumbs up to IBM and Sun Microsystems in the latest survey results by Gabriel Consulting Group. The research firm’s 4th Quarter Unix Vendor Preference Survey queried 277 enterprise Unix customers about their experience with and perceptions of the three major Unix systems suppliers; HP, IBM and Sun. “The real surprise […]

In a stunning disclosure today, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) said a restricted campus database with the Social Security numbers and other personal information about some 800,000 current and some former students has been hacked. The information includes names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and contact information for students, staff […]

Are CIOs obsessed with technology minutiae? The research firm Gartner thinks many are, and that those who want to see their companies thrive, need to change. In a preview of its annual list of New Year’s resolutions for CIOs, Gartner  issued a preliminary list of do’s and don’ts for those executives prepping for next year. […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Several companies, including Intel and AMD, put aside their competitive inclinations to attend a meeting at AMD’s corporate campus here, to develop strategies that could lead to more energy efficiency in datacenters and servers. This is easier said than done in a group of often cutthroat competitors, which included AT&T , Dell […]

Sybase has announced a new version of its RFID Anywhere software that adds location and certain environmental data to the mix of information that can be collected. RFID Anywhere 3.0 enables users to track assets from traditional passive RFID  , active RFID, real-time locations systems (RTLS), barcode, global positioning and environmental sensors. New features include […]

Who’s got the most energy efficient servers? With all the competing claims it’s hard to say, but add Dell to the growing list of server makers looking to make that claim. Today Dell  unveiled two additions to its PowerEdge server line that require less power and sport better performance per watt than comparable models in […]

Holiday shoppers bought plenty of PCs during the so-called “Black Friday” shopping week, but not nearly as many as last year. The Black Friday week, which includes the day after Thanksgiving when many retailers offer huge discounts to entice shoppers, is traditionally the highest volume week for PC sales. But this year they dipped 7.2 […]