David Needle

Almost three decades ago, a cover story

That’s the speculation by *Mercury News* reporter Tim Kawakami in a [column ](http://www.mercurynews.com/topstories/ci_12789923?nclick_check=1)today. Citing several “high placed sources,” Kawakami said current Warriors owner Chris Cohan recently held buy-out talks with Oracle’s billionaire CEO as well as the four-person group that owns a twenty percent share of the franchise. Oracle already owns naming rights to the […]

Is it safe to go short? Generally yes, but security firm MessageLabs says in a report this week that there are many reasons to be careful about clicking on the shorter links or forwarding them blindly to others. To recap the issue: Anyone who Twitters knows the value of shorter URLs. Twitter famously limits posts […]

A U.S. judge dismissed some damages claims in a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and its video-sharing Web site YouTube but left open the possibility that non-U.S. based rights owners could seek damages for live broadcasts, if they prevail. A group of sports and music copyright holders, led by the UK-based Football Association Premier League, […]

Today’s memorial to fallen entertainment superstar Michael Jackson may well have been one of the most viewed online events in history. Reports of Jackson’s death on June 25 caused shockwaves across the Internet as fans scoured the Web for the latest updates, traded gossip and grief on social networking sites and flocked to e-commerce sites […]

Google’s Gmail has earned a unique distinction as one of the longest running programs to maintain a “beta” designation since its debut five years ago. Well the jokes about “Is Google ever going to finish this thing?” should start to peter out with today’s news that the e-mail program no longer has the beta tag. […]

Yahoo Search Pad Source: Yahoo Yahoo is readying a public beta for this Wednesday of Search Pad, a service it’s already promoted and previewed at various industry events. Search Pad brings both collaboration and other time-saving features to search. With Search Pad activated, search links are recorded into an integrated notepad for easy reference or […]

Microsoft is moving rapidly to build on the early good buzz its Bing search engine’s received since its launch last month. Today the company announced its “initial foray into integrating more real time data” into search results. Several other search startups and established players already offer real-time search of Twitter and other social media. Google […]

Chances are you already know. According to a new report by Internet research firm [comScore,](http://www.comscore.com) nearly 55 million Americans visited an entertainment news site in May 2009, representing a seven percent increase over the previous year. Online video has also become an increasingly important channel for content in the category, with the number of videos […]

You can attack spammers’ distribution and also haul them off to court, but darn it all, the dreaded mass e-mail pitches keep on coming. That conclusion is evident in a lengthy update today from Google on the trends its seen over the past quarter. “Proliferation continues, with an unpredictable pattern of drops and spikes as […]

Even as Google is devising ways to wean corporate users off of Microsoft Office, the company publicly thanked Microsoft today for help with compatibility issues. Earlier this month Google launched its Apps Synch for Microsoft Outlook. The plug-in is designed to help companies move off Microsoft’s Exchange server, to Google’s cloud service, with the option […]

More than a third of network managers in a survey released this week say they are holding off deployment of next-generation datacenter applications because of concern over performance and other issues. Their concerns were based primarily on three types of applications: Voice Over IP (VoIP), unified communications and video delivery applications, according to Apparent Networks, […]