David Needle

Hoping to break out of the pack of competitive content management providers, Interwoven Inc. introduced upgrades and additions to its product suite and a re-positioning as a “content infrastructure” provider. “In close collaboration with our largest customers, Interwoven has developed a comprehensive suite of products to address the broader enterprise requirement of making content a […]

PeopleSoft Inc. has teamed up with JustTalk to release JustPractical with PeopleSoft CRM Sales application for eBusiness. Pleasanton, CA-based PeopleSoft is a leading provider of customer relationship management and other software designed for eBusiness. The new software gives mobile professionals the ability to manage their personal and enterprise data — call management, to-do-list, memos, contact […]

The latest release of Content Connect from OnePage, Inc. is designed to help organizations create portlets — the units of information that together make up a portal page. Based on a patent-pending technology, Content Connect identifies, automatically extracts and reliably retrieves user-specified information from Web-accessible sources for portal-building and wireless initiatives, without required involvement from […]

iSpheres Corp., an infrastructure “software framework” developer for enterprise level applications, announced its first product and first customer this week. The company, founded in 1998 says its iSpheres MetaApp Framework is based on 10 years of development by Dr. Mani Chandy, iSphere’s Chief Scientist, an expert in distributed computing, and IEEE Fellow. Supply chain software […]

Event411, a leading developer of Web-based planning solutions, has filed a patent application with the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) for proprietary features and functionality incorporated into its flagship product, PremierPlanner. The application covers architecture of Event411’s core meeting-management applications, including unique processes for attendee management, task management and expense tracking. “We’ve completed […]

Internet wunderkind Marc Andreessen says he would like to be at his startup Loudcloud “5, 10 or 20 years.” (And that’s good old-fashioned calendar years, not Internet time). Andreessen, who helped define the Internet revolution as part of team that created the first Internet browser (Mosaic) and his co-founding Netscape, told a packed hall at […]

For years before the Internet took prominence in our lives, Sun Microsystems regularly preached the slogan, “The Network is the Computer.” Now that the rest of the computer world is catching on via Application Service Provider (ASP) technology, and Microsoft’s forthcoming .NET services initiative, Sun is looking to raise the bar. “The world is changing […]

A group of computer industry heavyweights have announced their support and the availability of the latest Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification. IPMI defines common interfaces to “intelligent” hardware used to monitor a server’s physical health characteristics, such as temperature, voltage, fans, power supplies and chassis. Intel, HP, NEC, and Dell announced their support of […]

Moving quickly to dismiss the feelings of doom and gloom pervading the technology industry, Intel CEO Craig Barrrett kicked off his company’s Developers Forum in San Jose with a primarily bullish forecast that focused more on the Internet than the microprocessors for which Intel is best known. “‘The PC is dead’; ‘corporate IT spending is […]

San Jose, Calif.-based Rioport, Inc. is a leading digital media application service provider (ASP), which offers e-tailers & consumer electronics manufacturers industry-standard solutions for selling digital music to consumers in a simple, secure manner. RioPort’s distribution partners include the MTVi Group, House of Blues, Ministry of Sound and others. The company is backed by Oak […]

The latest, and allegedly first marketable, version of the New Internet Computer was released at the Showcase conference in Palm Springs this week. Funded by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, San Francisco-based The New Internet Computer Company is the tech titan’s latest attempt to sell the network computer concept he first pitched in 1996. But unlike […]

In a significant retrenchment, small business destination site Smartage.com has changed its name and game plan. Instead of continuing as a destination site of services for small businesses, the newly christened B2SB Technologies will provide ISPs and larger businesses with an ecommerce software platform for resale to small businesses. “We’ve gone from 1.3 million customers […]