David Needle

Sergey Brin Photo: David Needle SAN FRANCISCO — Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder and president of technology, was a late RSVP to the Web 2.0 Summit here, but show organizers scrambled to get him on stage, bumping AOL CEO Tim Armstrong back a time slot in the process. Ironically, when it was Armstrong’s turn, he said […]

Intel CEO Paul Otellini speaks at the Web 2.0 SummitPhoto: David Needle SAN FRANCISCO — Intel already has alternatives to silicon chips in prototype, but that evolution, while inevitable, is a ways off. “We don’t see the end of silicon for quite some time, but it will happen,” Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini said in an […]

Google’s Sundar PuchiPhoto: David Needle SAN FRANCISCO — Many were surprised when Google chose to enter the browser wars with Chrome, and perhaps more surprised later when the search giant announced plans to bring the Web-based Chrome operating system to the market next year. But the company’s reasoning is all very logical, according to Google’s […]

Hoping to make a connection with the hiring director at a company or trying to break through to the purchasing manager to pitch a product? A personal connection always helps in these matters and a new service unveiled this week by 7 Degrees aims to facilitate just that. PeopleMaps is available in both free and […]

Microsoft’s Qi Lu speaks at the Web 2.0 SummitPhoto: David Needle SAN FRANCISCO — In a major coup for Microsoft’s upstart Bing search service, the company announced a deal with Twitter that will let users pull in real-time tweets from the popular microblogging service. The feature goes live today and is available at bing.com/twitter. The […]

Print is dead? Don’t tell that to HP. The printer giant is announcing two deals today that aim to revive out-of-print books and help users create custom magazines. HP said its HP BookPrep will make more than 500,000 rare and hard-to-find books available for sale through new collaborations with e-commerce giant Amazon and the University […]

Twitter CEO Evan Williams on-stage at the Web 2.0 SummitPhoto: David Needle SAN FRANCISCO — The CEO of Twitter admitted it’s hard for even the company itself to get precise figures on its growth rate while conceding traffic in the U.S. has “probably” slowed and Web traffic is “not as robust as it was. But […]

Comcast CEO Brian RobertsPhoto: David Needle SAN FRANCISCO — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts talked up new services that the cable giant is developing here at the start of the Web 2.0 Summit on Tuesday afternoon. Roberts said Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) is driven by a “pay once, consume anywhere” vision that will make its services available […]

The wait is almost over for Plastic Logic’s eReader. Today the company announced the name for its first device, its rollout plans and a surprise market approach. Ironically, Plastic Logic said its new QUE proReader won’t target the same consumer market that Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Sony and others are going after, but it will be […]

Dan Bricklin, creator of VisiCalc and SocialCalc There aren’t that many great second acts in high tech — at least not wildly successful ones. But here’s Dan Bricklin giving it a shot some three decades after VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program, debuted exactly 30 years ago in 1979 for the Apple II. SocialCalc is far […]

Twitter users want news and Facebook users are more interested in trendy topics. That’s the broad brush, take-away from an analysis released today by Chitika, a search-based online advertising network. “I was interested, since we have this data on 65,000 sites, where Twitterers were actually going to when they click on a link in a […]

Small businesses don’t always have time to futz with the latest technology, but a new survey indicates a good many of them in the U.S. have jumped aggressively on the social network bandwagon. About 45 percent of 2,000 U.S. small businesses surveyed last month said they have a presence or profiles on Facebook and Twitter […]