David Needle

PALO ALTO — What’s it like for a Nokia executive to appear on a mobile panel in the heart of iPhone country? “I feel like a foreign exchange student,” said Purnima Kochikar, vice president of Nokia’s Community & Developer Forum. She soldiered on bravely, touting Nokia’s global reach and mobile ecosystem as the rest of […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Where’s mobile headed? Paul Jacobs, CEO of mobile phone chipset giant Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), gave his company’s perspective here at the AlwaysOn Summit today. And for the U.S., it’s good news. Though Europe and Asia are generally considered to be leading the world in mobile adoption, Qualcomm’s CEO said the U.S. […]

The rollercoaster negotiations between Microsoft and Yahoo may be coming to an end. The two companies are ready to announce a search and advertising partnership this week, perhaps as early as Wednesday, according to reports in AllThingsD, which quoted “multiple sources close to the situation,” and the Reuters news service. Contrary to early reports, Microsoft […]

If Yahoo finally pulls the trigger on the on again, off again, mega-search deal with Microsoft, what will happen to the enormous investments it’s made in its search infrastructure? The partnership reportedly under discussion would involve Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) taking over Yahoo’s search business and sharing ad revenue. The deal could also involve some kind […]

Yahoo didn’t wait long after the launch of its redesigned home page last week to make mobile news along the same lines. Today the Web giant unveiled a new mobile homepage that’s available now on the iPhone’s Safari browser, with other mobile platforms to follow “soon,” the company said. The news comes at a time […]

The bottom line trumps clear security concerns at some companies, according to a survey of security professionals and C-level executives just released by the RSA Conference. For example, even though 72 percent of those who responded to the survey said they’ve seen a rise in e-mail-borne malware and phishing , eight percent said they plan […]

Google’s Latitude application for sharing your location has come to the iPhone and iPod Touch. In announcing the release yesterday in a blog post, Google explained why it chose to distribute the application via Apple’s Safari browser rather than the App Store. It isn’t all that clear Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) preferred forgoing making it a […]

Facebook has made a small change in its developer API code designed to limit the unwanted spread of personal photos posted by its members. But some developers of popular Facebook applications are voicing their displeasure with the move. The API change addressed an issue caused by the social networking site’s settings, which exposed all of […]

PayPal President Scott Thompson (left) and Osama Bedier, vice president of the PayPal platform and emerging technologyPhotos: David Needle SAN JOSE, Calif. — PayPal detailed ambitious plans to open up its payment platform to third-party developers at an event here at its Silicon Valley headquarters. Between 30 and 50 companies are already testing a beta […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google isn’t only crawling your Web site, it’s looking at your source code as well. That was the introduction for Chris DiBona, the open source programs manager at Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), one of several keynote speakers here at OSCON 2009 today. While Google Code Search has been available through Google Labs […]

Tweet your way to riches? That’s probably not in most people’s future, but a number of companies in the fast-growing Twitterverse are focused on helping users and companies leverage the popular microblogging service for financial or marketing success. For starters, there’s TweetROI, a service that pays influential Twitterers for spreading the good word about marketers’ […]

AMD today reported a second-quarter loss of $0.49 per share or $330 million, missing Wall Street expectations. Revenue totaled $1.184 billion, flat compared to last quarter and down 13 percent from a year ago. Analysts had expected a loss of $0.47 per share, with AMD’s (NYSE: AMD) revenue coming in at $1.13 billion, according to […]