David Needle

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Apple is jazzed about the MacBook Pro notebook unveiled at Macworld Expo Tuesday. At the Consumer Electronics Show last week, several PC makers showed notebookspowered by Intel’s new Core Duo processor, and now Apple has joined the party with the first Apple notebook to use an Intel processor. MacBook Pro will ship next month. CEO […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The crowd at the opening of today’s Macworld Expo was surprisingly light, low-key and in no hurry. Or so it seemed till a reporter realized he was in the wrong part of the Moscone convention complex and had stumbled into the Society for Critical Care conference. It was a different story at […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s Steve Jobs earns a well-deserved reputation for hype, but he also gets less credit for a tendency to under-promise and over-deliver. This was evident in Job’s big announcement at Macworld today where the rumored Intel-based Macs were announced with greater performance specs and well ahead of schedule. The iMacs are shipping […]

LANDesk has announced the addition of Macintosh to the platforms it supports with its Trusted Access security management software. Although Windows-based PCs reside on most corporate desktops, the Mac has a long-established niche in publishing and multimedia departments, as well as in companies that specialize in those areas. In other words, the Mac may not […]

Adobe Systems shows no signs of slowing down following last year’s blockbuster acquisition of Macromedia. Adobe , announced today it’s acquired the FileLine Digital Rights Management (DRM) division of Navisware. With the acquisition, Adobe said it will be able to provide new capabilities to its Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server to persistently protect business-critical documents in […]

Texas Instruments said today it signed a definitive agreement to sell its sensors and control business to Bain Capital, LLC for $3 billion in cash. Bain is a global private equity investment firm based in Boston. TI officials said the deal will allow it to focus more on core areas of the company. “This agreement […]

Those tiny, key chain-ready storage devices are getting a makeover in capability and design. Known as thumb drives or jump drives, among other monikers, the handy USB-compatible drives have been growing not only in storage capacity but with new capabilities to launch and augment applications. At the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, […]

Wait till the guys at Pimp My Ride hear about this. Freescale Semiconductor is at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week showing off the first automobile application to leverage Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless technology. The wireless video system is being shown in a seven-passenger SUV at Delphi Corporation’s booth. Leveraging Freescale’s UWB technology, […]

Wi-Fi hot spots, while providing more than adequate speeds for most applications, aren’t always convenient or reliable. But that’s changing. At the Consumer Electronics Show, major notebook manufacturers have announced alliances with carriers that will bring high-speed network access to notebooks. Lenovo made announcements yesterday, and HP followed suit today. The new HP Compaq nc6140 […]

Lenovo unveiled new ThinkPad models today that are among the first notebooks based on Intel’s new dual-core processor for notebooks. Codenamed Napa, the processor now goes by the brand name Centrino Duo. The new ThinkPad T60 and X60, which also offer embedded wireless wide area network (WWAN) antennas and several incremental design improvements, are being […]

UPDATED: Netgear announced today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that it is working with VoIP leader Skype on a wireless mobile phone designed for Internet telephony. Netgear and Skype made the announcement today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where the new phone was demonstrated. Netgear has been in discussions […]