David Needle

SAN FRANCISCO — Google surprised attendees at the wrap-up day of its Google I/O conference with a developer preview of a communications system that is being pitched as an alternative to e-mail, IM and other collaborative tools. Called Wave, the online system lets users write and post messages that others can see, edit or retrieve. […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has begun limited testing of Google Apps Script, a feature that gives users of Google’s online spreadsheet program the ability to automate actions — such as reading and changing values in cells and ranges, changing formats and formulas and creating custom functions. Company officials said Apps Script, currently in a private […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Google co-founder Sergey Brin made some pointed remarks about the future of media and Google’s future direction during a press Q&A here during the Google I/O developer’s conference today. He said Google’s other co-founder, Larry Page, had come up with a kind of inverse to Moore’s Law that the number of transistors […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Google was expected to show off some new features of its Android mobile development platform here kicking off its [sold out Google I/O conference ](/search/article.php/3822236/Google+Declares+The+Web+Has+Won.htm)and didn’t disappoint. But the biggest surprise came near the end of the keynote when Vic Gondotra, Google’s vice president for engineering perhaps outdid even Steve Jobs who […]

Google’s Vic GundotraSource: Google SAN FRANCISCO — Google kicked off its I/O developer conference here with a spirited endorsement of new Web tools and adoption of new standards, particularly HTML 5, as driving a new generation of more innovative applications. “The Web has won — it’s the dominant programming model of our time,” said Vic […]

What’s next in tech? For the past eleven years, the Churchill Club has taken a crack at answering that question with a panel of high profile venture capitalists proposing and debating trends as part of the annual Top 10 Tech Trends event. Last night’s dinner event before a packed Hyatt Regency hall here covered Web […]

What’s coming next from Google? We’ll have a much better idea on Wednesday when Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) execs and developers gather at the second annual Google I/O conference in San Francisco. But InternetNews.com has confirmed there will be news related to Google’s Android platform as well as its Google Apps suite. Vic Gundotra, Google’s vice […]

Yep, there’s an app for that too. The upscale literary magazine the *New Yorker* made an interesting announcement about this week’s issue — the cover art was created on an iPhone using a finger paint application called Brushes. You can see some other cool images created using Brushes [here](http://brushesapp.com/artists/). Given that *New Yorker* covers are […]

Hate it when you’re notebook battery runs out of juice during a trip? You’re not alone. Having a dead PC battery or no place to charge it was the biggest complaint of frequent travelers in a survey sponsored by HP (NYSE: HPQ) released on Friday. The survey was an American Airlines Customer Research online study […]

Steve Jurvetson and Ann Winblad debate trends. Source: David Needle SANTA CLARA, Calif. — What’s next in tech? For the past eleven years, the Churchill Club has taken a crack at answering that question with a panel of high profile venture capitalists proposing and debating trends as part of the annual Top 10 Tech Trends […]

Apple’s made clear it would love to see the iPhone make [headway in the enterprise](/stats/article.php/3815316/iPhone+Finding+Success+in+the+Enterprise.htm), but hasn’t made anywhere near the commitment in resources and support the more established RIM (BlackBerry) and Microsoft has. Much to the relief of IT staffers charged with supporting the iPhone, Apple did do a deal with Microsoft allowing the […]