David Needle

A mixed bag of news from network industry leader Cisco, which today reported quarterly results that topped Wall Street expectations in one regard while coming up short in others. Cisco’s report is critical for many in the IT industry, who are looking for signs of continued growth in tech spending as enterprises migrate to the […]

Oracle is planning to throw the full weight of its resources behind Sun’s Sparc family of processors and x86 systems. The fate of the technology had been a bit uncertain following Oracle’s acquisition, but the company cleared up any lingering confusion at an event this week. Not only will Oracle continue to develop the Sparc […]

How do you attract more enterprise customers? One strategy, that database software company Sybase is pursuing, is to partner with trusted suppliers, in this case computer giant HP (NYSE: HPQ). Sybase itself is already firmly aligned with venerable enterprise software provider SAP (NYSE: SAP), which purchased the company earlier this year. As Datamation reports, certain […]

Google’s Wave may have crested, but that’s hardly the last word for cloud-bases collaboration tools. Just ask SAP, the enterprise software heavyweight that’s springing ahead with its own Streamwork service. SAP had partnered with Google to build off of its Wave product, and had benefited from the search giant’s Gadget API code and the OpenSocial […]

Location Based Services are in their infancy with many vendors still struggling to explain, if not justify, the use case. I personally don’t, for example, want coupon alerts every time I pass a store walking down the street. But the basic idea that your mobile device knows where you are and could therefore direct services […]

While having tech skills doesn’t guarantee employment, they’ve long given job-seekers an edge over many others seeking work. But with the faltering economy and unemployment stubbornly staying close to double-digit rates, just about every sector of the job market has seen dips in hiring. As an alternative to bringing on full time employees, a growing […]

Google talked up its bold plans for Chrome OS-powered netbooks almost a year ago and yet as the holiday shopping season approaches, it appears less and less likely the machines will ship this year. And, as Hardware Central reports, even if Google does manage to get the netbooks shipped this year it may not matter […]

“What if the ‘wisdom of crowds’ turns out to be the ignorance of the masses? In fact, what if the Internet is a ‘really bad thing’ for the world and its population?” Internet Evolution founder Stephen Saunders who warns that by 2029 the Internet could be transformed to an “Outernet” surveillance network that observes users […]

With all eyes on Oracle and its plans for Sun hardware now that its acquisition of Sun is complete, the database, enterprise software and (now) server giant is taking its message on the road, looking to connect with customers and talk up its vision of the data center of the future. And not a moment […]

As content on the social Web continues its exponential growth, it becomes increasingly important to have in place smart tools that help users cut through the clutter and surface the things that are most relevant to them. In that spirit, LinkedIn has acquired mSpoke, a firm that maintains a cloud-based recommendation engine that figures to […]

Google Wave, the technology once heralded as a replacement for email, IM and other forms of Internet-based office collaboration, has been sunk. The search giant had admitted since Wave’s debut last year that the technology came to fruition without a solid use case. “They just said they were going to build this cool thing that […]

Few can deny that spam continues growing at a frightening pace — Cisco earlier said it’s seen spam levels up 30 percent from a year ago. But not only is spam becoming ever more prolific, it’s also doing a better job at disguising itself. That has even users familiar with spam and its tricks more […]