David Needle

Pity the modern CIO who is forced to cut costs, upgrade critical infrastructure and somehow support and secure a myriad of consumer devices that have become as common as paperclips and Post-It notes in the workplace. As Datamation reports, the vast majority of enterprise IT managers still remain largely in the dark when it comes […]

Microsoft Office is still by far the dominant player when it comes to desktop productivity applications. But Google is pushing hard to give the software king a run for its money by offering its cloud-based Google Apps suite as a worthy alternative. Already, relative newcomer Google said it has two million business customers for Google […]

The convenience and functionality of today’s smartphones make them virtually indispensable in the enterprise these days. The same’s true of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. But as eSecurity Planet reports, the latest survey conducted on behalf of Cisco Systems found that all the inherent benefits of smartphones and social media are somewhat offset […]

Viacom’s hope of winning a [billion dollar copyright infringement case ](/bus-news/article.php/3665256)against Google and YouTube suffered a serious blow today. That’s because today U.S. District Court Judge Louis Stanton granted Google’s motion for summary judgment in the long-running case, ruling in favor of YouTube. Viacom’s suit accused Google’s YouTube of massive copyright infringement and asked for […]

While several IT research firms and leading technology companies have offered their share of reports and anecdotes suggesting the tech sector’s economic malaise will come to an end this year, Consumer Electronics’ latest study suggests IT spending might not even be as strong as it was in 2009. And that wasn’t very good at all. […]

Adobe might not get much respect from Apple for its Flash media player technology, but some other industry notables have lined up in support of the latest release, version 10.1. The latest round-up of Flash 10.1 fans includes Google, nVidia and Viacom, who all see the technology as essential for delivering rich media on the […]

Apple is out of the gate running with its new iPad tablet, which it says has now sold 3 million units in its 80 days on the market. That’s thanks in no small part to the burgeoning market for third-party applications in the company’s App Store. Now, Apple says it’s planning to ramp up the […]

Apple’s iPhone may have won favor among corporate users, but IT managers aren’t always so accepting of the growing trend of consumerization in the enterprise. To help bridge the gap between the native security and management tools enterprises expect and their general absence from the iPhone, a host of third-party vendors are offering new solutions […]

Google Docs has become more than just a novelty for the anti-Microsoft crowd, giving enterprises of all sizes an opportunity to create, edit and share a wide variety of documents in a very cheap and easy fashion. But as Datamation reports, as enterprises become more and more comfortable using Google’s collaboration applications, they need the […]

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Flock CEO Shawn Hardin is sure about one thing when it comes to sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. “The social network tsunami is not going away,” Hardin told me in a briefing here that included a demo of the company’s new social browser. Flock created the “social browser” category when […]

Google is refreshing Commerce Search with version 2.0, updating its optimization service geared for online retailers. With the latest release, the company is offering new features to help improve an e-commerce site’s Web visibility and internal mechanics, such as search. Commerce Search 2.0 also signals Google’s latest efforts to move in on the e-commerce space […]

Socialtext cut its teeth delivering social features like blogs and wikis to enterprises, taking heed of the compliance and security requirements that don’t apply to the consumer Web. With its latest offering, Socialtext Connect, the firm is promising to import corporate data from enterprise apps such as CRM and ERP into its social-media offerings. Datamation […]