David Needle

The European Union has found a way to address the problem of incompatible phone chargers and avoid a more heavy-handed legislative solution that the tech industry might not be keen to adopt. Today the EU, through its executive branch the European Commission, announced key industry players have agreed to build compatible chargers based on the […]

Facebook announced the appointment of a new CFO today, filling the spot vacated in March when it dismissed Gideon Yu. David Ebersman, former executive vice president and CFO at biotech giant Genentech, joins Facebook where he will report to CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg. “We received a lot of interest in the CFO position and […]

A report today would appear to end speculation as to whether Apple CEO was really spotted back at work at the company headquarters. “Steve is back at work,” an Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) spokesman told Reuters. “He’s currently at Apple a few days a week, and working from home the remaining days. We are very glad […]

This is not your father’s Web 2.0, says Tim O’Reilly, a long-time promoter of the concept of a Web that’s more interactive and ‘smarter’ than the original read-only Web. O’Reilly and John Battelle previewed some of what they have planned for the upcoming Web 2.0 Summit in October, by talking about changes they see in […]

Scattered reports indicate consumers had trouble accessing some popular news sites and Web services as the race to get information on the death of pop star Michael Jackson accelerated. TMZ, a popular celebrity gossip Web site, broke the story that Jackson had suffered a cardiac arrest after a tip-off that paramedics had visited the singer’s […]

Yahoo CEO Carol BartzSource: Yahoo A big technology company hires a new CEO from another industry and is immediately blasted for not having the vision to keep it competitive and pursue the right kind of innovation. That might describe Carol Bartz’ surprise appointment to Yahoo’s top spot in January, but it also describes Lou Gerstner, […]

Source: Guy Kawasaki Uh-oh. Well, with all the good news about how Twitter is helping Iranians voice their dissent over the legitimacy of the recent election results, perhaps it was inevitable the dark side of the microblogging site was revealed. Noted industry figure Guy Kawasaki was the apparent victim in a scheme to spread malware […]

Speed is a relative term. Someone surfing the Web on a high-speed Internet connection might think the interaction is fast, but it’s probably not as speedy as, say, flipping through pages in a magazine. Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), which has long said it’s made speed a top requirement in the design of all its services, thinks […]

iSuppli’s iPhone 3G S teardown.Source: iSuppli. Click to enlarge. It cost Apple $178.96 to make its newest iPhone, the 3G S, according to a teardown analysis by research firm iSuppli. The 16GB iPhone retails in the U.S. for $199 with a two-year contract with AT&T, Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) exclusive carrier. The iSuppli analysis is based on its […]

Facebook pages, Twitter and blogs are just some of the ways sports fans connect and share information about their favorite teams and players. But to paraphrase the name of a famous movie, There’s Something About Local that has unique appeal to sports fan. “We highly recommend all those things like Facebook and Twitter,” says Rafe […]

The latest figures from TechServe Alliance confirm that IT hiring has taken a serious hit in the current economy. Figures released this week show a .9 percent drop, or some 34,800 IT jobs were lost in May of this year. After peaking in November 2008 at over 4 million, IT hiring dropped off the next […]

Tech veteran Ed Zander is back in the news. [NetSuite](http://www.netsuite.com), a provider of on-demand business software, announced that Zander has joined its board of directors. Zander resigned as CEO of struggling Motorola back in 2007. Before that he spent 15 years with Sun Microsystems and served as president behind then CEO Scott McNealy. Nelson said […]