David Needle

While the major players in online, enterprise and network security continue unveiling new products, services and tools to combat data theft and cybercrime, it may not be enough. Not only is the security industry struggling to contend with growing levels of malware, security breaches and hacking attempts, simply managing the sheer volume of necessary PC […]

Cybersecurity has been getting a lot of attention in the federal government lately. Two top administration officials headed out to San Francisco this week to speak at the annual RSA security conference. First Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, then FBI Director Robert Mueller, told attendees that they need help — both technology and talent — […]

With all the enterprise services Google has been offering lately, it’s had to start adding back-end services that are also a must, not to mention a necessary evil for many firms because they are expensive and deal with worst case scenarios. One of those services is Google’s disaster recovery solutions for Google Apps suite. It […]

Attendees at the RSA Conference in San Francisco received an impassioned plea by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to speed up their plans and, more important, take action now to thwart the unprecedented escalation of sophisticated cyber attacks on government and private sector networks in the past few years. eSecurity Planet details some […]

Leading government and private sector security experts sparred with consumer advocates during an RSA Conference panel session this week, illustrating the immense challenge of balancing the best technology and policies to ensure national security versus the need to protect individual privacy and what benefits enterprises could derive from it. In light of recent cyber attacks […]

Who knew making an API open could yield so many apps? By making its services available on more than just its Web site, Twitter has spawned a huge ecosystem of third-party apps that in one way or another let you tweet. How big is this ecosystem? Try 70,000 apps for things like managing lists and […]

Socialtext, the collaboration and social networking software for corporate users, has just released its latest version. While it has many of the features found in social networking environments, like a wiki, chat, messaging and user activity updates, it’s presented without a lot of the junk found on the general, broadbased Internet sites like Facebook and […]

Real-time search has attracted the major players in search, all of whom have incorporated Twitter feeds and other social network results into their search engines. Datamation has the story. SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The major players in search agree on one thing – providing real-time results from social networks like Twitter is important to their […]

Photos: Microsoft SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is excited about his company’s Bing search engine and its aggressive search strategy. But it can be hard to measure that enthusiasm since he’s almost always in sales mode when talking about anything related to Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). So it’s worth taking note when Ballmer […]

It’s taken a while to get the tech sector behind the notion of electronic medical records, but now it looks like the big guns are starting to line up in support of the notion. Datamation has the story. The race to streamline online access to medical records turned into a stampede this week as leading […]

In the words of tennis great John McEnroe, “You cannot be serious!” Bloom Energy, a venture-backed Silicon Valley clean energy startup, burst onto the scene after ten years of operating in secret. Its debut was a total surprise to media and analysts alike, even though the company had high-profile customers like Google, eBay, FedEx and […]

As the Web has become an increasingly social place, businesses have been tinkering with new strategies to interact with customers online and promote themselves. While Facebook and Twitter top the list of usual suspects, a new research study has found that many firms are broadening their reach to other, lesser known platforms. Datamation takes a […]