David Needle

To keep up with the relentless price cutting by its Wintel competitors, Apple Computer improved the value of its iBook Mac Mini with new models. Now sporting a faster Power PC G4 processor running up to 1.42 GHz, the new iBooks come with 512MB memory across the line. Previously, some models of iBook and Mac […]

Ameritrade earned the top spot among online brokers in a just-released report by JupiterResearch. The firm returned the strongest overall results, garnering the best measures for both customer intensity (customer minutes per month) and hyper-usage (the percentage of highly engaged site visitors). JupiterResearch said Ameritrade’s high hyper-usage score suggests its customer base has a greater […]

Flexing its considerable financial muscle, Intel is sinking $3 billion into a new chip manufacturing plant in Chandler, Arizona. The 300-mm wafer fabrication plant is expected to produce by the second half of 2007. It will be the sixth facility of its kind owned by Intel and focused on the company’s most cutting edge 45 […]

Summer slowdown? Don’t tell the folks at Intel. The chip giant has several announcements planned over the next ten days, internetnews.com has learned. Details are sketchy, but expect to hear news in the coming weeks related to Intel’s up-and-coming dual core processors, and how fast Intel is ramping up to meet demand. Expect an update […]

Cell phones, PDAs, e-mail, instant messaging — the list goes on. But if you think we’ve about reached the apex of connectivity, you haven’t seen anything yet. Tech visionary Bill Joy said much more work awaits on the grand vision of connectivity he and others at Sun Microsystems envisioned in the early 1990’s when Java […]

The busy wife rushing out of the house on the way to work might ask her husband: “Anything interesting in the paper dear?” A British startup wants to give more consumers more chances to hear about what’s in the paper. Otodio bills itself as the “universal, eyes-free document delivery standard.” Just as companies like Audible.com […]

Recently convicted Worldcom exec Bernie Ebbers was a scapegoat for larger problems in the telecom industry. Video on Demand is boring. It’s good that Hollywood and Silicon Valley don’t get along. Technology conferences are usually filled with speakers patting each other on the back, touting their company’s products and the industry as a whole. Such […]

Intel had plenty of good news in its second quarter earnings results announced today, but the optimism was dampened by its admission of production constraints. The chip giant reported record second-quarter revenue of $9.2 billion, up 15 percent year-over-year and down 2 percent from last quarter. Revenue in the third quarter is expected to be […]

Dell just hit one of marketing’s magic price points with the release of a notebook computer for $499. The price — after a $150 mail-in rebate — may only be a summer special, but it’s a clear indication the under $500 notebook will some day be standard for consumers if not business customers. Dell isn’t […]

After facing numerous hurdles this year, there is some good news for Siebel Systems . The customer relationship management software company suffered from a revenue shortfall for the quarter ending June 30 on top of having to ease into the April appointment of George Shaheen as its second CEO in a year. But Siebel still […]

Intel released an update to its Itanium line with the first two processors in the chip family to sport a 667 MHz front side bus (FSB) . High end servers, such as a new one being rolled out by Hitachi, are expected to exploit the capabilities of the faster bus to deliver more than 65 […]

Rumors continue to swirl of imminent, massive layoffs at computer maker Hewlett-Packard . While analysts and numerous business reporters have built a drumbeat of speculation over how big the layoffs will be (anywhere from 10,000 to 25,000), HP won’t officially confirm any layoffs announcement. “It’s just rumor and speculation at this point,” said Alexa Hanes, […]