David Needle

Now it’s Intel’s turn. AMD shocked the chip giant last year when it was first to market with a dual-core processor for servers. The AMD Opteron was an immediate hit, not only in taking a healthy bite out of Intel’s dominant market share, but winning the company blue chip server makers like HP, IBM and […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Reporter’s Notebook: So much for fairy tales. “Slow and steady doesn’t win the race,” said Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, in a presentation at the recent Web 2.0 Summit. “Users really respond to speed.” Google has long leveraged a streamlined Web page and powerful, massively distributed […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Two years ago, Richard Rosenblatt saw user-generated content as a tremendous opportunity to grow a Web upstart company called MySpace. Rosenblatt, who was then CEO of MySpace parent Intermix Media, said that as recently as 18 months ago no one really believed user generated content would take off the way it did. […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The second day of the Web 2.0 Summit featured some of the Internet’s heaviest hitters talking strategy, new products and how to compete with search king Google, one of several sponsors of the event. “There is immense opportunity in the core space that they are in that I’m surprised we haven’t branched into,” […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Answers.com, which specializes in providing access to a range of professionally researched content, is wading into the virtual land of user-generated content with its acquisition of Wiki company FAQ Farm. The $2 million cash purchase adds FAQ Farm’s collection of community-driven questions and answers to Answers.com, which already provides free access to […]

Dell is ready to ride Intel’s new quad-core chip push with the first servers based on Intel’s new Xeon 5300 processor, code-named Clovertown. The Round Rock, Texas, computer company also updated its desktop and notebook line with new systems that use both AMD  and Intel  processors. Clovertown consummates Intel’s promise to beat rival AMD to […]

SAN FRANCISCO – About a thousand Internet digerati (developers, executives and media types) crowded into the swank Palace Hotel here for the opening of the sold-out Web 2.0 Summit to rub elbows with big industry names, get a sneak peak at some new services and try and keep current with the fast-changing business. Eric Schmidt, […]

Stolen and missing laptops and the security of other valuable IT assets have vendors scrambling to come up with better solutions. Enter Vector Networks, which has added another tool to its asset management lineup designed to help companies better secure their hardware. Working in conjunction with the Atlanta-based firm’s mainstay Vector Asset Management Professional is […]

Fresh from a week of major announcements at its Oracle OpenWorld conference, the database giant has struck again. Oracle today announced its intent to acquire Stellent  in a $440 million deal. Stellent is a global provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. Oracle  said the acquisition will complement and extend its existing content management solution […]

HP CEO Mark Hurd has released documents that put a light back on his company’s leaks investigation scandal. The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations questioned Hurd and other HP executives last month in a public hearing and promised to follow up with written questions to Hurd. This week Hurd responded to the first of […]

The latest high tech phones are gaining in appeal with so-called road warriors, the salespeople, executives and others who frequently do business away from the office. According to high tech market research firm In-Stat, business travelers spending $300 per month or more on wireless, and business travelers on the road 30 percent of the time, […]

Reporter’s Notebook: The latest chip foundry news might not get your juices flowing, but Insight64 analyst Nathan Brookwood said an agreement between IBM, Chartered Semiconductor and Samsung Electronics is “mind blowing.” If you missed it, IBM, Chartered and Samsung Electronics announced a major win in their “Common Platform” open source business model to enable synchronized […]