David Needle

Tech employees sending out trade secrets to competitors. Government workers e-mailing hate mail and pornography. Private financial and health information routinely sent out over the Web unencrypted and unprotected. These are but a few of the startling assertions in the new book, The Insider: A True Story Reveals the Threat to Intellectual Property From […]

Sun Microsystems has announced an alliance that will enable it to offer VMware’s server virtualization software. Sun will now resell VMware ESX Server, VMware GSX Server and VMware Workstation to customers who purchase Sun Fire x64 servers or workstations from Sun, with the option of adding the virtualization software to their systems. “Virtualization opens the […]

Remember the TV show “thirtysomething”? That might be an appropriate name for AMD’s longterm goals. The chipmaker aims to improve its share of the market for business desktops and servers to 30 percent by 2009, according to AMD’s vice president of commercial business, Ben Williams. AMD believes market share figures from IDC due later this […]

SAN FRANCISCO — IBM and Oracle were among the computer industry heavyweights that made a splash at LinuxWorld in San Francisco today. The computer giant also said it has expanded Linux support across its collaborative software portfolio with new offerings of its Workplace software. It includes support for the Firefox browser and new software […]

“Linux is making significant inroads into the corporate marketplace.” For the past several years you could find some variant of this phrase reported about the time a LinuxWorld tradeshow rolled around. In fact, there is plenty of evidence to support such a claim, though it depends on how you define “significant.” But the latest declaration […]

Linux continues to make gains in the server area, but broader acceptance on the desktop has long been held back by a lack of business productivity applications. ThinkFree hopes to change that with the introduction of ThinkFree Office 3, a low-cost alternative to Microsoft’s market-dominant Office suite. The new Linux software is slated to be […]

The world’s largest chipmaker wants to capture more of the world’s market for its chips, motherboards and other components. Intel is going about that goal with a new program targeted at select geographies. Called “platform definition centers,” the program provides locally relevant computing solutions, based on Intel technology, of course. The goals of the new […]

Communications software giant Avaya is pushing its Voice over IP software to the next level with the ability to integrate within a Service Oriented Architecture . The company said its new Avaya Voice Portal significantly reduces the costs of deploying speech self-service by using a company’s existing Web services . This integration is designed to […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Technology is a crucial tool in the fight against terror, Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff told a Silicon Valley audience Thursday. “There is no element more important than technology [to our safety].” In line with his assertions, Chertoff said the Administration is asking Congress to approve the new position of Assistant […]

Intel plans to offer new dual-core processors in the first half of 2006 that feature lower power consumption such as the dual core Xeon, code-named Sossaman, that puts out a low 31 watts. In an interview with internetnews.com, Stephen Thorne, marketing manager with Intel’s server platform group, said a major emphasis on the coming year […]

When it comes to computing power, 64-bit desktop and servers are state-of-the-art in most respects, but they could be less secure than mainstream 32-bit systems. Because companies like AMD, Intel and Microsoft are pushing 64-bit computing, though, companies have no choice but to prepare for it, contends Rob Enderle, principal analyst for the Enderle Group. […]

HP announced it will enlist some back up. Computer back up, that is. The computer maker will resell an online backup service at its e-commerce Web site. The service, from Spare Backup, is fully automated and designed for consumers and small businesses. For $15.99 a month, Spare Backup automatically recognizes all types of files on […]