David Needle

The founders of Skype have sued owner eBay and an investor group that has agreed to buy the Webphone service, accusing them of copyright violation and potentially disrupting the $1.9 billion deal. The lawsuit brought by Joltid Ltd, a Swedish firm owned by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, says Skype used its technology […]

SAN FRANCISCO — The real-time Web is hot. Companies that mine the latest content from Twitter and other social networks are sprouting up like weeds, while a bevy of alert and aggregation services feed users near-instant updates of news developments on the Web. But what’s new is not the only value to be found on […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Can competing for a job be fun? Coders might enjoy the challenge of Trollim, a programming skills assessment and comparison platform that launched here Tuesday. The multi-level, cloud-based system is designed to let programmers of similar skill sets and coding proficiency compete against each other in either one-to-one “battles” or many-to-many “rumbles” […]

Click on the graphic for a larger view. Source: Google When Google co-founder Larry Page speaks, developers at the search giant listen. Last fall, Page asked why the Web wasn’t more like a magazine, so that users could flip from screen to screen as they might the pages of Newsweek or some other magazine. One reason […]

SAN FRANCISCO — As it looks to ratchet up competition with market leader Google, Microsoft today unveiled an upgrade to its Bing search engine, featuring a way to “pivot” results to deliver a more visual search experience. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has touted the work it has done in specific vertical markets, particularly shopping and travel, […]

Enough already. After being bashed by vulture-like competitors for months about its commitment to Sun, Oracle is starting to fight back. As my colleague [Andy Patrizio noted](/bus-news/article.php/3832666/Defections+Batter+Sun+Microsystems.htm) in several recent articles, HP and IBM have rolled out the red carpet for Sun customers to migrate their way, while aggressively questioning whether the Sun hardware line […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Motorola and T-Mobile had [the big news](/mobility/article.php/3838651/Cliq+Motorola+Finally+Makes+Its+Android+Play.htm) at last week’s Gigaom Mobilize conference. Motorola finally unveiled its strategy for a line of Android-based mobile devices and T-Mobile unveiled the first model, the Cliq, due out in the next few months. But [upstart mobile provider INQ,](http://www.inqmobile.com/lang/en/phones/) made a bit of Android news of […]

Security researchers are warning that the recent 3.1 update to Apple’s iPhone software doesn’t prevent phishing attacks consistently or as well as the company’s desktop version of the Safari browser. The anti-phishing feature should warn users when they may be visiting known phishing sites designed to illegally capture user’s personal information. But researchers at both […]

You remember Bob Borchers. What’s that, name doesn’t ring a bell? Borchers’ was the anonymous Apple marketing guy who hosted the original, 24-minute [iPhone guided tour video](http://www.metacafe.com/watch/684438/iphone_a_guided_tour/) back in June of 2007 when the device first came out. Yes, it was only a few years ago, long before “There’s an app for that,” that Apple […]

The number of mobile device users tapping cloud computing services is a tiny fraction of the overall mobile market today, but just wait. Over the next five years, ABI Research predicts there will be almost a billion subscribers to mobile cloud services, up from only 42.8 million in 2008. Or put another way, ABI Research […]

Source: Motorola SAN FRANCISCO — The wait is over. Motorola today unwrapped its first of a new generation of Android-based smartphones that emphasize social networking connections and customization. Available in time for the holiday season from network partner T-Mobile, the new Motorola Cliq will incorporate Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT) new Motoblur software that syncs contacts, posts, […]