David Needle

HP, like other tech giants, has its own financing division, but it’s not usually a big part of the firm and most customers get their own financing. With credit and financing so tight these days, HP has decided to take matters into its own hands and expand the program by offering zero percent interest. Small […]

Windows 7 on an iPad via Citrix Receiver. Click on the graphic for a larger view. Source: Citrix Time was the last thing most Apple users wanted to do was run Microsoft software. Well, maybe Office, but certainly not Windows. That changed as the Mac switched to an Intel architecture and solutions came along from […]

Crisis averted? Google says that the outage that knocked some Nexus One users offline this morning has been resolved. But for some cranky customers, this morning’s disruption continued a series of service issues that began shortly after the launch of the Android phone. Enterprise Mobile Today has the story. Some users of Google’s Nexus One […]

Oracle has filed a suit against a little known rival that provides low-cost software maintenance services, in a case similar to one that Oracle is fighting against rival SAP AG. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. district court in Nevada on Monday, alleges that privately held Rimini Street stole copyrighted material using the online access codes […]

Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported strong fourth-quarter earnings today, capping a solid year for the e-commerce bellwether. For the quarter, Amazon said its net income rose 71 percent to $384 million, or $0.85 per diluted share, compared with net income of $225 million, or $0.52 per diluted share, in the fourth quarter of 2008. The performance […]

The glow is starting to fade a bit following Apple’s splashy unveiling of its still-to-be-shipped iPad tablet. CEO Steve Jobs took the wraps off the highly anticipated device at an event that lit up the twittersphere, blogosphere and innumerable Web sites that reported it both as breaking news and with live-blogging accounts. Many of those […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The promise of the Semantic Web, where users can make natural-language queries and get accurate, timely results, is starting to be realized, insiders say. But while that’s good news considering the buzz long surrounding the Semantic Web and its supporters’ sizable promises for the technology, it’s not always an easy transition. […]

The controversial Google Voice application is now available for Apple’s iPhone and the Palm Pre phone. Google made the announcement today in a blog post. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said Voice had been rejected by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) for distribution via the iPhone App Store back in July, though Apple said it was continuing to evaluate […]

As mobile devices proliferate so is the danger of misuse. Already there have been numerous cases of so-called “distracted drivers” getting in accidents because they were using a mobile device while operating a motor vehicle. EnterpriseMobileToday reports on why employers would be well-advised to set clear policies for how mobile devices are to be used […]

Few events can steal the thunder from an Apple quarterly earnings day — an Apple product launch is one of them. The company releases quarterly results on Monday, but Wall Street is waiting for Wednesday, when Apple could unveil a new tablet computer that investors hope will be as huge a phenomenon as its iconic […]

Twitter said it has addressed a security flaw that relied on a widely known flaw and could take over a user’s account, according to one researcher. Mike Bailey, a senior security analyst with Foreground Security, first raised the alarm on the problem, which exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Systems’ Flash programming language. Bailey said […]

Chinese officials had a lightning-fast response to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech — challenging her on claims that it wrongfully limited its citizens’ access to the Internet and blasting her for “attacking China.” During her Thursday speech, Clinton criticized China’s censorship policies, among those of other countries. Though long-planned, the talk included references to […]