David Needle

It’s almost enough to make you wonder what we did before social media became so pervasive. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networks have rapidly entered the mainstream of communication and become a primary source of news and recommendations for many. That said, these services are still in their formative stages and, while consumers may […]

Is Google ready to take on Apple’s iPad with a new tablet? If it is, it wouldn’t be the first potential challenger. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) just recently shipped its Streak tablet and other companies have products in the works including Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) with its Android-based Cius and HP (NYSE: HPQ), which is developing both […]

HP, the world’s largest tech company, is coming off a strong quarter in which it saw its server, storage, desktops and mobile PC groups show double-digit revenue growth amid a climate that’s still challenging and in which visibility into IT spending remains fairly opaque. But despite the solid quarter, most industry watchers are more concerned […]

What exactly is SAP up to with its newly acquired Sybase? The computing giant had said little since the May purchase, but now is out with a fresh product road map and high hopes for an “unwired strategy.” In the next nine months, SAP and Sybase plan to unveil a new mobile platform for businesses […]

Looking to expand its revenue, SlideShare is rolling out a subscription-based version of its popular presentation-sharing service. SlideShare is offering three tiers of its new subscription service. A “silver” version caters to individual professionals. The “gold” service is designed for small businesses, while the top-tier “platinum” targets the enterprise market. Datamation takes a look. With […]

If the invitation is to be believed, Xsigo will be unveiling an I/O virtualization product at the end of August that will “change everything.” An analyst who closely tracks the data center sector imagines the news being on a little smaller scale, but he’s still enthusiastic about what the company will unveil. Xsigo isn’t giving […]

Unix just works. The venerable operating system doesn’t get the kind of flashy headlines a new version of Windows or Apple’s Mac OS or iPhone OS does, but Unix has been powering key enterprise systems for decades. No wonder then, that computer giant IBM continues to evolve its own Unix variant, AIX, including the just-released […]

It should surprise no one that social networking has made its way into the enterprise — and IT managers, CIOs, and enterprise security pros are left wondering how to deal with users’ use of the services from within the workplace. While social media can offer highly effective tools for marketing and communication, there’s also dangers […]

Social networks, particularly Facebook, keep growing. Having recently passed the 500 million mark, Facebook’s popularity is clear. That huge membership also makes Facebook an attractive marketing platform for companies of all sizes so it was perhaps inevitable that airlines would start to take notice. Ecommerce Guide reports on Delta Airlines’ (NYSE: DAL) pioneering advance on […]

First the United Arab Emirates, then Saudi Arabia and now India. All three countries have complained about the NOCs (Network Operations Centers) Research in Motion uses to manage email and website traffic for users of its BlackBerry smartphones. Government officials at all three countries complain the NOC system prevents them from [monitoring BlackBerry communications for […]

“The HP board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago. That decision nearly destroyed Apple and would have if Steve hadn’t come back and saved them.” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison blasting the decision by HP’s Board of Directors to fire his friend, CEO […]

Google is taking the wraps off two new features in its Android open source mobile operating system: One designed to make it easier for users to control their Android device via the sound of their voice, while the other taps Google’s Chrome browser to help bridge the gap between the desktop Web browser and mobile […]