David Needle

Google has been on an aggressive campaign to prove to federal antitrust authorities that the wireless ad market was young and dynamic enough that its purchase of AdMob wouldn’t pose any significant anti-competitive issues. In the end Google won that fight, but what ultimately convinced authorities at the Federal Trade Commission was Apple’s purchase of […]

Mobile innovation is ramping up and Google’s Android software is helping to power many of the latest devices. Meanwhile, the search giant has another operating system in the works, Chrome OS, that will power a new generation of Web-oriented netbooks coming out this fall. DevX reports on how Google sees both operating systems evolving and […]

Today was the big news day at Google’s I/O conference, as industry watchers were treated to details on a pair of long-rumored announcements. Google announced its new GoogleTV service alongside a string of high-profile partners, including Intel, Sony, Adobe and Best Buy. Adobe’s Flash and Intel’s Atom processor will power the service, and Best Buy […]

Google’s I/O Conference is the place to be this week to get the inside scoop on what the search giant plans for its snowballing efforts to woo enterprise developers to the Google cloud platform with new tools. Chief among the developments so far at the show have been a partnership with VMware and the rollout […]

Just days after Microsoft rolled out a cloud-based version of its ubiquitous Office suite, Google is countering with its own enterprise-friendly cloud service. The search giant on Wednesday debuted its App Engine for Business, a version of its original App Engine retooled for the enterprise, and announced a new partnership with virtualization heavyweight VMware. Google’s […]

The Android 2.2 operating system is expected to be the belle of the ball at the forthcoming Google I/O conference, but it won’t be the only focus of news. Google and the rest of the Android ecosystem want to see Android’s app store finally start to gain some traction to match all the hype Apple’s […]

With all the hype surrounding smartphones and tablet computers, it might seem a little odd to talk of 2010 as the year of the netbook. But ABI Research is projecting that sales of the low-cost, lightweight devices are likely to soar this year. The researchers expect netbook sales to reach 58 million this year, well […]

All eyes will be on Android this week as Google convenes its annual I/O conference, where the company is expected to highlight a variety of initiatives underway at the company. Google is widely expected to roll out the next iteration of its open source mobile operating system, dubbed “Froyo.” Another of the big announcements expected […]

Score one for Apple and the rest of the HTML5 crowd after Scribd, a popular social publishing site, announced it was abandoning Adobe System’s Flash software for the HTML5, a move that Apple CEO Steve Jobs says will become all too common in the months and years ahead. As DevX reports, the war of words […]

A new report suggests that in addition to whopping profits on the heels of another blockbuster — the iPad — Apple is poised to not only surge in revenues but also in its impact on the tech world as we know it. Clearly, Apple’s already had a dramatic impact on the PC market, the portable […]

Google is a company that never stops tweaking its products. In between the tweaks, Google comes out with a big overhaul. This week was one of those times. Google has updated the search results page for its search engine with a new look and format. So what’s new? Small Business Computing finds out. For Web […]

Facebook’s ascendancy to become a mainstay of consumer communications online can’t be denied. With more than 400 million users, however, Facebook also represents a major business opportunity for companies to enhance their marketing efforts while lowering the costs of communication. Author and Facebook expert Clara Shih spoke during this week’s Web 2.0 Expo on what […]