David Needle

Sun Microsystems continued its open source push today with the announcement of an independent governing board to set the direction for its OpenSPARC hardware initiative. Sun  officially made the design of its UltraSPARC T1 processor open source in March and said it’s attracted several thousand downloads. The company said it hopes to gain new customers […]

Lenovo is the latest notebook vendor to announce a battery recall due to concerns of overheating that could lead to its ThinkPad notebooks catching fire. Today, Lenovo and IBM said they will cooperate with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in a voluntary recall of approximately 526,000 lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony for ThinkPad […]

SAN DIEGO -– The parade of technologies, new products and services continued during the wrap up day of the DEMO conference here. Some companies are giving old tech ideas a serious facelift. Share My PC Ncomputing said it’s recast the time-sharing concept, employed by early mainframes, to PCs at a very low per-user price that […]

SAN DIEGO — Several vendors took turns at a conference here to slam the limitations of cell phones and then offer services designed to make them more useful. “Your mobile phone is where photos go to die,” quipped Chris Shipley, producer of the DEMO conference. The majority of photos taken with cell phones today are […]

Intel won a significant challenge to the AMD antitrust case when a Judge ruled in the chip giant’s favor. Back in May, Intel filed a motion with the U.S. District Court of Delaware challenging the scope of AMD’s charges. Without addressing the merits of the case, Intel  argued in its motion that since most of […]

SAN DIEGO, Calif. –- It’s not exactly SAP meets MySpace, but enterprise software vendors are increasingly looking to easier user interfaces and Web 2.0 technology to enhance the usefulness of their applications. At today’s kickoff of the DEMO conference here, several consumer and business software companies showed off new applications that emphasized the ability to […]

1. Hurd’s Stronger Than Ever? While the scandal has battered CEO Mark Hurd’s once sterling reputation and even threatened his tenure at HP, his influence and power at the world’s biggest computer company has, for now, actually grown. Hurd’s assumed the additional title of chairman of the company and is in a position to largely […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP’s board chairwoman Patricia Dunn resigned today from her duties on the board, effective immediately, HP’s CEO Mark Hurd said during a press conference here at company headquarters to address the company’s pretexting scandal. Hurd hoped to stem some of the tide of bad publicity HP’s attracted this month. Revelations have […]

Drip, drip, drip. New revelations of bad, if not illegal, behavior by HP have been coming daily, and it’s finally starting to affect the computer and printer giant’s stock price, which fell 5 percent on Thursday. Friday is D-Day for HP in the growing boardroom leak scandal. After the markets close, HP CEO Mark Hurd […]

UPDATED: The latest news in the HP boardroom drama is that CEO Mark Hurd may testify before Congress. Meanwhile, HP announced that it’s reached a settlement with two of its former board members. The agreement includes a mutual release of claims between HP and Keyworth and Perkins as well as its current directors, officers and […]

Dell gets a lot of e-mail. While that’s not surprising, the company said a recent internal review of its 100,000+ email boxes revealed that 90 percent of the incoming traffic were spam messages. The computer giant gets about 400 million online intrusions a day between spam, pop-ups and attempted virus attacks. But few companies are […]

UPDATED: Less than a day after HP submitted documents to a U.S. House investigative committee relating to the company’s pretexting scandal, the panel wants even more HP officials to testify at a Sept. 28 hearing. Seperately, late Wednesday, HP confirmed it plans a press conference for this Friday afternoon at which company CEO Mark Hurd […]