David Needle

Time Inc. has added Golf.com to its extensive portfolio for golf enthusiasts. The addition will strengthen what the company says is the widest print and online reach in golf, one that already includes Golf Magazine, GolfOnline.com and SI.com Golf Plus. Terms of the deal, which included the purchase of Golf.com and SirenServe, Inc., the company […]

Just in time for the start of the high-profile trial of former Enron executives Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling comes EnronEmail.com. The new Web site features some 514,000 e-mails sent to and from 176 company employees from 2000 to 2002. Originally released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), EnronEmail.com is set up to allow […]

Responding to criticism that it was collecting customer information surreptitiously and without permission, Apple Computer announced it’s made changes to the MiniStore feature in its iTunes software. The MiniStore window pane pops up with music or video suggestions as users play songs from their libraries. But the suggestions are based on information from the songs […]

SANTA CLARA — Open Source has a bright future as a building block in commercial software that also includes proprietary elements. That seemed to be the consensus among a panel of open source experts at a conference sponsored by the non-profit SD Forum here Thursday. While open source software is often seen as free, labor-of-love […]

AMD reported strong fourth quarter earnings today that even company chairman Hector Ruiz said were “even a bit more than we expected.” Driven by strong corporate sales of its Opteron processor for servers, AMD reported quarterly earnings of 45 cents a share — 19 cents above estimates — and sales of $1.84 billion topped $1.65 […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The computer industry is saddled with old computers and outdated software among much of its user base and reactive security solutions that aren’t always effective. That gloomy assessment from HP’s vice president and CTO of services came toward the end of a largely upbeat discussion on his company’s manageability and security solutions. […]

After a nine-month beta period, iLOR gave official birth to its Prefound.com community-oriented search engine today. The site lets people find, tag, and share information including multimedia such as video, MP3, and podcasts with each other. Prefound.com is designed to deliver targeted, relevant results for any search based on what others have already found on […]

Intel tried to mollify analysts concerned about its surprisingly low earnings report today with promises for a stronger 2006. Intel posted earnings of 40 cents a share, three cents below analysts’ estimates, on sales of $10.2 billion — $360 million less than expected. Intel also predicted a decline in gross margins from 62 percent to […]

Xilinx announced it acquired AccelChip, the leading provider of MATLAB synthesis software tools for building digital signal processing (DSP) solutions. The acquisition by San Jose, Calif.-based Xilinx of AccelChip in nearby Milpitas, Calif., is designed to boost the overall DSP business of Xilinx. AccelChip is the industry’s only provider of MATLAB-based algorithmic synthesis solutions, including […]

PALO ALTO — The hottest ticket in Silicon Valley Thursday was entry to the Churchill Club’s 8th annual “Top Ten Tech Trends Debate,” which included a panel of all-star venture capitalists. A couple of sharp disagreements punctuated an otherwise friendly discussion between the business rivals at a standing-room only hall at the Crowne Plaza, Cabana […]

Reporter’s Notebook: In a wistful moment during his keynote at Macworld this week, Steve Jobs reminded attendees that April 1 will mark the 30th anniversary of the dawn of Apple. “I just wanted to point it out,” said Jobs. “You know, Apple was founded on April Fools day in 1976. We thought that was funny […]

Symantec, a leading provider of antivirus and computer security products, said it has addressed a controversy over whether its own software provided a hiding place for Trojans and other security breaches. The problem relates to the protected recycle bin in Symantec’s Norton SystemWorks program. “Basically, it stores deleted files in a hidden directory,” Vincent Weafer, […]