David Needle

Oddly enough, there’s a company eager to stake the claim of World’s Ugliest Web site. “Over the past few months, our team has visited thousands of Web sites, and none is as ugly as Guidezilla,” said Ryan Duques of WD Enterprises, citing Guidezilla’s lackluster graphics, tricky navigability, and ho-hum fonts as examples of its unsightliness. […]

The Wi-Fi Alliance plans to unveil a new specification today designed to let devices connect directly to each other using the popular networking technology. The proposed Wi-Fi Direct specification is almost complete, and the industry-supported Wi-Fi Alliance, said it expects to begin certifying devices around the middle of next year. “We hope it will redefine […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Salesforce loves Oracle? Those exact words weren’t uttered by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff here at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, but he came pretty close. “We want to thank Oracle Corp. I thought it was fantastic we’re able to be here. Oracle is one of our key suppliers and partners,” Benioff said in […]

Atigeo will have its formal coming out party next week at the [Web 2.0 Summit ](http://www.web2summit.com/web2009)in San Francisco. CEO and co-founder Michael Sandoval is a former director of partner strategy and general manager at Microsoft where he worked for ten years overseeing three consulting groups at the software giant that catered to the needs of […]

Remember Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s [famous jab](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5oGaZIKYvo) at the iPhone when it first came out at a $500 price? “…that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a keyboard,” said Ballmer. Well it wasn’t really the most expensive phone in the world. In […]

The next great car safety breakthrough could come from outer space. Ford Motor Company and Auburn University said a joint research project shows global positioning system (GPS) satellites that “talks” to cars could help prevent accidents in the future. The idea is that a GPS satellite could work as a kind of early warning system […]

More than a billion a day. That’s the number of page views YouTube is serving on a daily basis, according to CEO and co-founder Chad Hurley. Actually, he said YouTube is attracting “well over a billion views,” which further cements the site’s standing as far and away the most-viewed video site. He called the new […]

The economic downturn isn’t keeping most enterprises from maintaining or increasing their investment in online communities and social media, according to Deloitte’s second annual Tribalization of Business Survey released this week. Responses came from more than 400 companies and organizations, including many on the Fortune 100 list, that have created and maintain online communities that […]

Compuware said today’s $295 million all-cash acquisition of Gomez will deliver the first unified solution for optimizing application performance across the enterprise and the Internet. The purchase figures to extend Compuware’s (NASDAQ: CPWR) well-established application performance optimization services beyond the firewall to cloud computing, mobile and the broader Web. “We don’t have that last mile […]

Everyone likes a deal, and there are gazillions to be found on the Web, from coupons to discounts and the oft-quoted “limited time offers.” There’s just one problem: how to find the ones you really want. “There are lots of sites for coupons and deals but they vary in quality and we’re seeing consumers confused […]

Socialcast is taking the wraps off a new suite of analytics for its enterprise microblogging service, designed to give executives and analysts greater insight into how the system is being used and who the most frequent users are. The Social Business Intelligence (SBI) suite is a proprietary suite of analytics that Socialcast said can provide […]