David Needle

These days, most people are constantly tethered to their Internet-enabled smartphones, giving them the ability to access e-mail accounts and send text messages at all hours from virtually anywhere. But Datamation takes a closer look at new study that illustrates how this ‘always on’ mentality can lead to some serious problems. Tweeting and social networks […]

The iPhone generally uses what’s called “pull technology,” which requires the end user to actively tell the device and go out looking for news updates, music, news feeds or updates to applications. But startup Urban Airship is using “push technology” to send updates down to the end user unprompted. Enterprise Mobile Today gets the scoop […]

If there’s strength in numbers Apple might be shaking in its boots, but don’t count on it. Some 24 mobile carriers, including some of the biggest global players with access to more than 3 billion customers worldwide, said this week that they’re joining forces on the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an open platform designed to […]

Google has moved quickly to match moves by Microsoft and Yahoo in the social media space, adding Twitter feeds and other social content to its search results and its Gmail service. Now the company has acquired Aardvark, reportedly for $50 million, a startup whose founders include former Googlers. Rather than the pure math-driven algorithms behind […]

Does the world need another search engine? For most users comfortable with market leader Google or one of its two closest competitors, Yahoo and Microsoft Bing, the answer is probably no. But that isn’t deterring startup Wowd, which believes it offers enough new innovation and value to attract users. “There’s a real opportunity with real-time […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple CEO Steve Jobs was the subject of some gentle ribbing here at Macworld Expo, the same show at which he and Apple launched numerous products over the years. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) made shockwaves among Mac fans last year when the company announced it would not participate in the iconic Apple-oriented event […]

Will the next great tech company join Apple, HP, Google or Intel in claiming Silicon Valley as its birthplace? A new report brings the odds of that happening down several pegs from what most observers would have thought likely as recently as a few years ago. The preamble to the annual Index of Silicon Valley […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo today made its boldest statements to date to clear up what it said are misconceptions that it’s winding down its search efforts in light of its deal with Microsoft. “We’ve neglected talking about it and some of that is our own fault and some of it was due to regulatory reasons,” […]

Garden by eBay site lets people test, review and interact with new features the online auctioneer is developing. E-Commerce Guide puts on its gloves and digs into some of the site’s new features. In the rush to compete, tech companies sometimes ship faulty or not-ready-for-primetime products and services. Cynics will argue that buyers are too […]

Just about every TV ad these days flashes a Web site address at the end. So when advertisers step onto the biggest stage of the year and shell out for a Super Bowl spot, they’re setting themselves up for a deluge of traffic after the game ends. Web performance firm Gomez ranked how the Super […]

Google continues looking for ways to capitalize on the booming interest in social media, and now after made moves to better integrate Twitter and other popular social sites into its core search offering, it’s now turning to improvements in Gmail. The idea is that by enabling Gmail to embrace the same kind of social updates, […]

After a beta test period that attracted more than 10,000 users, Pip.io went live to the public Monday and quickly more than doubled its user base within a few hours. A user base of 20,000+ is of course nothing compared to sites like Facebook, which recently said it’s close to hitting the 400 million mark. […]