David Needle

Building on its AquaLogic roll out a year ago, BEA Systems today announced the purchase of Flashline, a leading metadata repository supplier. With the

Even for Silicon Valley, this is one weird marketing gimmick. It started with a life-size cut out of HP founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard

When HP reported strong quarterly results earlier this week, analysts and reporters credited the usual suspects. And rightly so. The company's

UPDATE: Dell  today announced an expansion of its plans to use AMD processors in its machines, while revealing a quarterly earnings report that

Dell's massive recall of some 4.1 million notebook batteries is more than just a costly technical blunder. It also risks losing the company years of brand

Hewlett-Packard  saw profits surge in a solid third quarter earnings report that showed the computing and printer giant's restructuring efforts under

Good news for engineers looking to end the weight lifting exercise that typically defines the term "mobile workstation." Lenovo today announced a version

Utilities have long offered residential customers incentives to buy and use fewer power-hungry appliances, such as refrigerators and dishwashers. Now

The battle between AMD  and Intel  rages on. This week it's AMD's turn. Today, AMD officially rolled out "Rev F," the latest version of its

There are hot-selling notebooks and notebooks too hot to sell. Unfortunately for Dell,  it has the latter. The biggest selling computer maker

AMD isn't quite ready to release full details of its newest Opteron processor, but did let slip many of its key features. The Sunnyvale, CA chip maker

Cisco Systems announced today it's made a $50 million investment and purchase of startup Nuova Systems, with the option to invest as much as $42 million