David Needle

Google continues to push the scope of its Google Apps Premier suite, hopping on the growing interest in collaboration, to add group sharing for enterprise users. Google Groups is not a new application, but to date it’s only been available as a free consumer app. While the new Apps Premier version adds more IT controls, […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — One thing Cooliris has always had is a good demo. The venture-backed company offers a very, well, cool way to display photos and images in a horizontal, scrollable 3-D wall of images. The application has attracted advertisers and a multitude of Web sites looking for new ways to show groups of […]

In many ways, Apple’s high-flying success in recent years are owed to a great deal of innovation in its products, ranging from the Mac to OS X to, in more years, the iPhone. But as HardwareCentral reports, the Cupertino, Calif. computer maker is now facing a lawsuit over a key feature that’s found its way […]

Microsoft got some well-deserved praise for the flashy new interface features it’s bringing to its Bing search engine. At an event earlier this week, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) showed off a much more visual interface for Bing Maps that lets users pilot their way online to find point of interest and other useful content — including […]

Much of the general interest so far in cloud computing has focused on public clouds, from vendors like Amazon. But Gartner sees enterprises shying away from the public option — at least at first. Datamation digs into the story. Public cloud services aren’t the best bet for enterprises looking to replace or supplement their data […]

Has the federal government overreached in tapping social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to investigate possible criminal activity? The non-profit civil liberties’ group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) doesn’t know, but it’s filed suit to find out the scope of the government’s investigations. The lawsuit, filed at the Northern District of California’s San […]

Google unveiled a new design for its home page that emphasizes an even more stripped-down look when users first visit the site. Essentially the new spartan design that rolled out Wednesday is focused on search. It shows the Google logo, the search entry box, the familiar “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” buttons — and […]

Well, that was quick. Last month, AT&T (NYSE: T) sued Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) to stop advertisements from the carrier comparing the two companies’ 3G network coverage. AT&T claimed that the ads, which portrayed Verizon as having far greater nationwide 3G coverage, were misleading. AT&T has since launched an ad campaign of its own starring […]

Bing Maps’ new Streetside feature.Click to enlarge. Source: Microsoft SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft previewed some new enhancements to its Bing search engine as part of its drive to break out of third place and become a serious contender to Google in search. The software giant also played down — though it didn’t deny — talk of a […]

As part of its positioning as the top Web site to find answers, Ask.com unveiled the top questions of 2009 across several categories. Ask.com said that among its more than 50 million monthly visitors, users are three times as likely to perform a search query in the form of a question than at any other […]

Cyber Monday — the Monday following Thanksgiving — has earned a reputation as one of the busiest sales days for the online retail world. It’s also a key barometer of how e-tailers fare each holiday season. eCommerce Guide takes at look at some very positive numbers for the day’s haul, courtesy of Coremetrics. Forget productivity, […]

Google has released the winners of its second annual Android Develop Challenge, a contest designed to spur innovative apps for the Android mobile platform. Results were based both on scoring by thousands of Android users and a panel of judges, according to Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). There were 11 different categories including Best Overall, Productivity/Tools, Entertainment […]