David Needle

What can open source do for you? Quite a bit, according to Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, who made an emphatic pitch for crowd-vetted technology as a path to innovation, not to mention a possible preemptor of Toyota’s recent woes. Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference, Whitehurst argued that “innovation will slow significantly if […]

Google just ratcheted up the competition against Microsoft for enterprise customers. With the new Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange, Google is attempting to woo businesses into the cloud with a server-side tool that facilitates the migration of e-mail, calendar and contact information away from Microsoft’s stalwart offering. Small Business Computing has the details about Google’s […]

According to officials at Gomez, a division of Compuware, the performance and overall responsiveness of Web sites has never been more important. That’s why so many companies aspire to land atop the Gomez’ annual Web Performance Awards list. This year’s honorees were broken down into a variety of industry groups, measuring their response time, availability […]

Google Code has emerged as a major player in hosting open source projects, with more than 240,000 registered projects. This week, five years after its inception, the effort’s leaders look back at how they succeeded and some of what Google Code had achieved during that time. There’s also good news for users of Google Code: […]

SAP has its work cut out for it. The enterprise software giant is facing off against not just a hard-charging Oracle, but also its own demons: Continuing changes at the top, and protracted delays in kick-starting its response to the surging interest in software-as-a-service. The company’s two chief executives took some time this week to […]

With the .com domain hitting its silver anniversary today, a prominent Washington think tank is marking the occasion with a report looking back on 25 years of transformation. Indeed, a quarter century later, it seems fair to say that the rise of the commercial Web ranks on a short list of profound historic developments. And […]

Twitter’s update field queries the user with “What are you doing?” Now you can add “where are you doing it?” to that field, without having to say anything. Twitter has now made geo-location services available on the site, continuing its build-out of new features. Datamation has more. Say this about Twitter, the company and its […]

Before you head over to Sears for that fancy new drill or to Best Buy for your dream notebook, you might want to check Google first. This week, the search giant’s Product Search Availability feature went live, allowing you to find out of if the item you’re looking for is in stock at a nearby […]

There’s a large number of social networks out there, and they all require a unique login and account management. Consumer-facing firms want to maintain relationships on as many as possible to keep in contact with their customers, but that can turn into a chore. That’s where Awareness comes in. The firm provides a single console […]

Like any good pundit, Rob Enderle knows how to stir things up. You may have read some of [Rob’s commentary](http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/columns/article.php/3864281/The-World-According-to-Intel.htm) at our sister site, *Datamation*. For example, he’s regularly bombarded with hate mail by iPhone fans for criticizing Apple’s strategy or predicting the company faces stiff competition. Those folks don’t seem to have as much […]

Never a dull moment over at the Googleplex. As it continues to court the enterprise market, Google has rolled out the Apps Marketplace, an online hub for developers to promote and sell their applications, even if they weren’t developed using the Google App Engine. Enterprise Mobile Today has the story about Google’s new Apps Marketplace, […]

Securing mobile devices in the enterprise remains one of the biggest challenges and headaches for corporate IT administrators. In a day and age when iPhones and BlackBerrys are just as common as desktop PCs and conference rooms, protecting all these mobile devices from outside intruders has never been more critical. Symantec thinks it might have […]