David Needle

eBay CEO John Donahoe speaks at Innovate09Photo: David Needle SAN FRANCISCO — It’s not often you hear $70 billion referred to as “pocket change,” but that’s how online payments giant PayPal sees its business potential. “We’ll do about $70 billion in transactions this year, but that’s just pocket change compared to the $30 trillion consumers […]

Click to enlarge. Source: Workshare Workshare has introduced software that gives Microsoft Office PowerPoint users several new capabilities, helping users manage different versions of presentations. The new Workshare Compare for PowerPoint lets users track and manage edits made to PowerPoint decks by other team members, reviewers or outside editors, or just within various versions of the same […]

James Lundy Credit: David Needle SANTA CLARA, Calif. — You can’t ignore the real-time Web. That was one of the main messages Gartner Analyst James Lundy hammered on in a keynote address at the Collaborate 2.0 Summit Friday, sponsored by SD Forum. Real-time services span everything from instant messaging, Twitter and online conferencing to blogs […]

Embargoes — can’t live with them, can’t live without them. That was one of several themes running through a spirited discussion among tech journalists and PR people last night. For the uninitiated, embargoes are the controversial process where a tech company, usually its PR firm, offers to give advance details on a news story in […]

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Google has announced an improved music search capability today that it said would help users discover “millions of songs” on the Web. Now when you enter a music-related query for a song, artist or album, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) search results will include links to audio previews courtesy of Google partner MySpace (and its recently acquired […]

Google has won qualified approval to replace the city of Los Angeles’s aging e-mail system with Gmail and other applications in the search giant’s suite of cloud-based services. City Council members voted unanimously on Tuesday to pay $7.25 million over five years for services giant Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), the contractor in the deal, to […]

Facebook is taking steps to help users safeguard the profiles of deceased friends and relatives while allowing others to save and share their memories online. The result are “memorialized” profiles. Users need to provide proof of death as part of completing the online submission form to have a profile memorialized on the popular social network. […]

Users may be swimming in a sea of free content on the Web, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of high value, paid content online. This includes scientific and technical journals that can charge as much as $30 to $40 per article for in-depth, peer-reviewed pieces and other specialized content. Subscriptions to this content […]

Well, that’s one controversial marketing plan that will never see the light of the day, unless it’s conveniently “leaked.” Microsoft has pulled the plug on an animated special designed to promote Windows 7 by the creators of the animated series “Family Guy.” The “Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show” is still […]

Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks at the Web 2.0 SummitPhoto: David Needle SAN FRANCISCO — For Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the decision to keep the Web open had a simple explanation: “Otherwise, it would not have worked.” During an onstage interview here at the Web 2.0 Summit last night, the inventor of the World Wide Web detailed […]