David Needle

Pankaj Kedia, director of global ecosystem programs for mobile Internet devices at IntelPhoto: David Needle SAN FRANCISCO — Every day, an estimated 100,000 new Web sites are created around the world. That was one of several staggering statistics served up by Intel’s Pankaj Kedia here in his keynote kicking off the GigaOM Mobilize conference. A […]

Click on the graphic for a larger view. Source: Ondeego There is no question Apple’s wildly successful App Store has consumer appeal, but IT acceptance is another matter. The App Store and other online smartphone storefronts are designed mainly for consumers to download free and paid applications ranging from entertainment to education and productivity. Enter Ondeego, […]

Actually, the exact status message hasn’t been released, and I doubt it was as dire as my headline. Still, this story could well have turned out to be too tragic to joke about. Here’s the deal. The UK’s Telegraph newspaper site reported earlier this week on the plight of two girls lost in a storm […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Android, Google, Blackberry, iPhone, Nokia. There are plenty of mobile platforms and Facebook professes to love them all. At a media event here at Facebook headquarters on Tuesday, the social networking phenom laid out its ambitions in mobile and talked up its current efforts. Those efforts include launching Facebook Connect for […]

Socialtext Mobile Enterprise social networking firm Socialtext decided to release a mobile version of its services because “work is increasingly mobile.” Socialtext Mobile, out today, offers similar functionality to the desktop version, including Twitter-like microblogging, Activity Streams and Workplaces for collaboration. Rather than develop for specific platforms, the browser-based Socialtext Mobile is accessible across different […]

Yahoo Finance for the iPhoneSource: YahooClick to enlarge. Yahoo is keeping its foot on the pedal, bringing more of its portfolio of Web-based apps to mobile platforms. Today Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) added Yahoo Finance and its Fantasy Football apps to both the iPhone and the BlackBerry Bold, Tour and 8900 series. The company also unwrapped Flickr for […]

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 […]

Don’t tell Google that blogging is dead or passé. The company continues to invest in Blogger, its popular blogging service and sees a bright future ahead. Earlier this month, Blogger marked its tenth anniversary and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced some upgrades and new features today as part of a birthday celebration. “Blogger’s done quite well, […]

Google’s upstart Chrome browser may be getting a hand when it comes to a wider distribution, thanks to a new arrangement that will see it being preinstalled on some Sony Vaio notebooks. Since release of an early beta version last September, Chrome has gained only a tiny, single-digit share of the overall browser market despite […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Long before PCs, there were computer terminals tied to mainframes. That’s how computing was done. These terminals were called “dumb” because they didn’t have much in the way of internal processing, their main function was to provide access to the almighty mainframe — think old black and white science fiction movies. […]