David Needle

SAN JOSE, CA — From iTunes to Rhapsody to Microsoft’s forthcoming Zune player, online music is hot. But Nayio Media thinks consumers are missing out on a critical element – interactivity. Armed with several patents, technology and big ambitions, Nayio plans to launch its community Web site later this month featuring interactive music titles. The […]

UPDATED: The list of figures expected to appear before Congress (and television cameras) as part of the swirling boardroom scandal hitting HP is expanding by the day. A congressional committee has now asked HP’s global security manager, Anthony Gentilucci, and private investigator Joe Depante, owner of Action Research Group in Melbourne, Fla., to testify at […]

We’re not any closer to “Beam me up, Scotty,” but Intel sees a big payoff in laser research. Today the chip giant announced its latest research designed to create a super-fast hybrid silicon processor capable of moving data at terabits-per-second  speed. Intel  and the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) announced they’ve been able […]

The apparent winner of what became a bidding war for Freescale Semiconductor is a private equity consortium led by The Blackstone Group. Embedded chip maker Freescale  announced today that it’s entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by the consortium for $17.6 Billion. In addition to Blackstone, the consortium includes The Carlyle Group, […]

UPDATED: Calling it the start of a new platform of entertainment devices, Microsoft gave a sneak peek and details of its much-anticipated Zune music player today. Microsoft  said in a statement Zune is on track to be available “this holiday season.” To put Zune at the top of holiday shopping lists, Microsoft confirmed the Zune’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Apple introduced several new iPods at an event here along with a major enhancement to its iTunes software available for free download. With iTunes 7, Apple has played to one of its core strengths; easier-to-use, more graphical features. A new “Cover Flow” view in iTunes lets you search for music, TV shows […]

SAN FRANCISCO — At a media event here billed as “It’s Showtime,” Apple revealed more of its strategy to capture the living room with the company’s products and services. In a break from typical practice, Apple  CEO Steve Jobs previewed a product that won’t be ready for release till next year. Code-named “iTV” the simple-looking […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — AMD isn’t in the tradeshow business, and company officials insist it doesn’t want to be. But the chipmaker is the primary mover behind a virtual tradeshow Web site, launched today, that features a handful of tech heavyweights, such as IBM, Oracle and HP. Virtual tradeshows have been tried before with limited […]

This scandal has legs. While Hewlett-Packard continued an emergency board meeting today to discuss how to deal with its “pre-texting” scandal, the feds, and U.S. House members picked up their interest in the imbroglio involving how HP went about a media leak investigation. The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee announced it wants HP to […]

What’s next? While HP  was struggling to regain its edge, pushing CEO Carly Fiorina out the door and transitioning to a new CEO, the chairman of the company’s board, Patricia Dunn, was obsessed with apparent leaks to press. Her decision to launch an independent investigation into who on HP’s board was leaking confidential information has […]

Tuesday, September 12 is “Showtime” for Apple. At least that’s what the company declared in a cryptic invitation sent to media for the event. If there’s ever been a relative lull in iPod announcements, it’s now. So next week would be good timing for Apple  to introduce new players. For one, analysts say it gets […]

HP is refreshing its Integrity line of servers, incorporating the latest dual-core “Montecito” release of Intel’s Itanium 2 processor. With performance that is more than twice that of its earlier generation, HP  said the new Integrity’s have “mainframe-caliber high availability at entry-level server prices.” The latest Integrity’s also sport the new HP zx2 chipset, which […]