David Needle

WebEx is the leading provider of online meeting applications that include live audio and video and basic document sharing. Today’s trends toward higher travel costs, time constraints and corporate expansion have done nothing but help the market for the services that WebEx provides. Subrah Iyar is a computer-industry veteran who’s held senior positions at Intel, […]

AMD’s 64-bit Opteron processor line has long been known for fast performance. New TPC-C results might help burnish that reputation. The TPC-C, the trademark name for the Transaction Performance Processing Council, is considered an important test for measuring system performance, tallying how many transactions a computer can manage in a commercial environment, such as simulating […]

Just because Sun and HP are Silicon Valley neighbors doesn’t mean they have to like each other. Judging by their recent ad campaigns and company statements, they don’t. Following last month’s announcement of a new line of Sun Fire servers, Sun is targeting rivals Dell , IBM and HP in a series of aggressive marketing […]

Add the rCard to the list of super-lightweight electronic gizmos that may be coming soon to a pocket near you. In its first incarnation, the rCard, announced this week by rIdea, is a fixed-function device that can play short videos, and it includes text and graphics capabilities; it’s not intended to connect to other devices […]

In a major boost to the once high-flying browser, HP has announced it will pre-load the latest version of Netscape on new consumer PCs and notebooks set for release this January. “HP believes in giving the customer choice. This decision is reflective of the momentum of users in the marketplace who are choosing to have […]

Hewlett-Packard’s story is more than selling big servers, advanced storage systems and just about any kind of printer you can imagine. Take its software business: it generates over a billion a year in revenue. HP Financial Services is also one of the largest financing organizations in the world? Or how about that stuffy old Unix […]

The race is on. Again. PC and other device makers have been trying to make computing more affordable for decades. Steve Job’s original vision for Apple’s Macintosh was reputed to be a $500 system the average family could afford. But the final design and other factors drove the price for the initial floppy-disk Mac to […]

Be careful what you wish for. When the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) issued its recommendations for mobile phone security this week, it also asked for industry feedback. No problem. TCG, a non-profit industry standards board, got an earful from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco-based, non-tech industry group. The EFF’s stinging critique today of […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Hammering home a theme of “mobility for everyone,” a trio of industry executives kicked off the CTIA Wireless conference here in a series of keynote addresses today. Microsoft , Nokia and Intel all gave distinct pitches on where they see the mobile market headed, though reaching new customers was a unifying theme […]

SAN FRANCISO — “We won’t all be using smartphones in 10 years.” That may have been the most sobering comment at the one-day Smartphone Summit conference here Monday. The gathering of communications and mobile device executives and developers featured positive comments and analysis of the current and future state of so-called smartphones. Ironically, though, there […]

Action Engine is gearing up in its battle to be the leading provider of application software for the newest generation of phones and mobile devices. Today the Bellevue, Wash., company announced the newest version of its Action Engine Mobile Application Platform. The addition of Java support in the latest release adds to Action Engine’s support […]

AMD is launching three new models of its dual-core Opteron processor family for one-way to eight-way x86 servers and workstations, keeping the pressure on competitor Intel in the dual-core market. The latest chips lay claim to the highest performance and performance-per-watt in those categories. The dual-core Opteron processor Model 880 is designed for up to […]