David Needle

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and a host of others. Consumer-oriented social networks are growing in popularity with enterprise users who may or may not always have a business reason for logging into these services to update their “status” or finding new “friends.” But as CIO Update reports, these same social networks have long posed a security […]

Apple’s by far the market leader today when it comes to mobile application stores, thanks to its own App Store, which has risen to dominance based on the popularity of the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. But Apple’s not the only game in town, and at least one industry researcher sees it eventually losing out […]

As numerous World Cup games have shown in recent weeks, watching Web video in the workplace can be a recipe for disaster. And with YouTube being one of the Web’s most popular destinations for watching video online, the Google-owned site is, not surprisingly, also a potential source of pain for network administrators looking to rein […]

“Due to hostility toward security researchers … a number of us from the industry (and some not from the industry) have come together to form MSRC: the Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective.” A post by the MSRC in which the group says it will anonymously release proof-of-concept exploit code for Microsoft vulnerabilities in retaliation for the software […]

It’s a good time to be in the touchscreen business. Thanks to the frenzy that has attended every step of the launch of the iPad, and no shortage of companies developing rival devices, touchscreen shipments are projected to jump 5,000 percent this year, according to research from the supply-chain analysis firm iSuppli. And it won’t […]

Usability guru Jakob Nielsen recently released some interesting results from a set of readability tests comparing the Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, a PC and a good old printed book. Nielsen’s company went to some lengths to try and balance out the experience, making sure user’s were up to speed on how to use the iPad […]

IT managers may see a bit more of their wish lists cut in 2010 due to European debt and other issues affecting the world economy. As CIO Update reports, Gartner has revised its global IT spending forecast downward for a variety of reasons. There is some good news in the figures however, particularly in hardware […]

In a broad sense, Google’s $700 million cash purchase of ITA Software, announced Thursday, fits with the search giant’s long-held goal of organizing the world’s information. Consumers may not be familiar with ITA Software, but the company’s software for organizing flight information is used by major airlines and flight services like Expedia and Hotwire as […]

Malware writers have been exploiting major news events for years now, so it only makes sense that they would seek to take advantage of one of the most anticipated summer movies, “Twilight: Eclipse.” Like other malware that exploits news events, politics or a celebrity death, the trick in question involves scareware, making people believe they […]

Yahoo’s got a sleek new version of its e-mail program for Apple’s iPhone, complete with HTML5 and Cascading Style Sheets to display content in a format optimized for the device. Yahoo says the new e-mail application for the iPhone is coming soon, and will be available for download on Yahoo’s website. It could also be […]

When it comes to distributing video on the Web, YouTube reigns supreme, serving up billions of videos each year. Part of the reason for its success is the simplicity of posting and viewing video and a key enabling technology behind that is Adobe’s Flash. But Flash is not without controversy. Ever since Apple declared the […]

The hundreds of millions of consumers that visit Yahoo’s home page and its other digital properties every day probably don’t give a lot of thought to what drives the delivery of specific content to their desktop and mobile screens. But behind the scenes Yahoo’s thousands of servers leverage a distributed file system called Hadoop to […]