David Needle

Ford Motor Company’s stock price on the New York Stock Exchange has almost doubled in the past year, but that’s not the only stock market the company has interest in. The car maker is also tapping a cloud-based prediction market system to get a better handle on which new ideas to pursue. The simulated stock […]

Dells’ mobile line up for the rest of the year includes a smartphone codenamed Hancock that will run Android 4.0, or Ice Cream, as well as tablets running Honeycomb and Windows 8. The mobile device menu for Dell was leaked to some bloggers, and, if reports are true, shows that Dell is committed to the […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Looking out at the sea of thousands of computer security professionals attending the RSA security conference here might lead one to wonder who’s minding the store. But the size of the crowd isn’t surprising as RSA has long established itself as a key gathering for security pros both to trade stories with […]

It’s no secret that sales of the iPad are phenomenal, but perhaps what is surprising is that Apple is now top dog in a sector long dominated by hardware vendors such as HP and Acer. Sales of iPads and Apple notebooks surged in the fourth quarter, pushing Apple to the top spot in the mobile […]

Bringing together two widely-used technologies, social media and presentations, SlideShare today is releasing a new service called Zipcast. The Web conferencing service builds on the SlideShare’s Web-based presentation-sharing service that boasts a community of over 45 million users a month. “Web conferencing is very popular, but the tools are stuck in the 1990s. You still […]

You want to play, you have to pay. That was the message Apple sent to publishers looking to offer subscriptions to content via the company’s App Store. Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) terms for publishers looking to sell content subscriptions for the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad via the company’s App Store were spelled in a release […]

Cloud computing may be all the rage, but from HP’s vantage point, data centers still represent a substantial opportunity. While HP is no stranger to the cloud, the computing giant has rolled out a new service that aims to help businesses design and build data centers. Dubbed the Critical Facilities Implementation service, the new offering […]

Apple’s iPad continues to attract interest in enterprise circles, playing well to an increasingly mobile workforce. The latest example is this week’s release of Zendesk for iPad, the first tablet version of the cloud-based help desk application. “This is not a port, it’s a hundred percent native iPad application,” Zack Urlocker, COO at Zendesk, told […]

Filling out forms is one of those everyday hassles we deal with while trying to get things done — forms are the entry point to signing up for events, getting purchase approval for products and services, taking surveys and innumerable other tasks. Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE), no stranger to document creation via its creative tools, said […]

Apple has been remarkably disciplined in limiting the number of iPhone models it sells while competitors target different market segments with many more smartphones choices. But is that about to change? A report by Bloomberg indicates that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has built a prototype of a lower cost version of the iPhone that wouldn’t require […]

“When we think about commercials that offend us, we think of those that glorify antisocial behavior — like the scores of Super Bowl ads that are built around the crass objectification of women. Unlike those ads, no one walks away from our commercials taking the causes we highlighted less seriously. Not a single person watched […]

Time to get out of the office? More and more workers are doing just that, according to a recent survey by Citrix. A decade ago, mobile computing meant carrying a laptop, but today smartphones and the emerging new class of tablet devices are firmly in the mix. In the Citrix survey, 42 percent of respondents […]