David Needle

Skype, the Internet telephone unit of eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY), is planning to launch its service for iPhone users on Tuesday. Next up, the company plans to also offer its VoIP service to RIM’s BlackBerry line of smartphones this May as part of its effort to expand beyond desktop computers. Skype has been pushing to make […]

iPhone users are eagerly awaiting a flood of new accessories for current and future models of popular Apple phone, coming thanks to a sweeping set of upgrades for the iPhone’s operating system. Meanwhile, there’s a whole shadow industry of hardware hackers who can’t wait to get their hands dirty with the iPhone’s new capabilities. Apple […]

Even search giant Google isn’t immune to the economic downturn. Earlier today, Google’s vice president of global sales and business development, Omid Kordestani shared some detailed about the layoffs in a blog post, “Changes to our sales and marketing organizations.” Kordestani noted the company’s rapid growth, but also said it over-invested in some areas based […]

Apple’s now confirming that its upcoming Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) is set for June 8-12 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center — a revelation that would, for almost any other company, normally merit little more than an events listing. But for closely watched Apple, it could be a critical event. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has waited till […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Dell today threatened to put a room full of reporters to sleep with its familiar pronouncements of focusing on customers’ needs. But the hardware giant instead detailed an aggressive new slate of technology, software and services in the rollout of its 11g servers here at the Four Seasons Hotel, putting a fair […]

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian speaks at OSBC. Photo: David Needle. SAN FRANCISCO — Most tech suppliers aren’t too happy about the state of the economy. Tighter budgets brought on by the crisis generally means less IT spending. Proponents of open software don’t dispute the challenge, but they argue the current tough times mean there’s more […]

Google’s longer search result snippets. Source: Google. Click to enlarge. Google has rolled out a few new changes to the way it displays related links on results pages. The company says it has developed new technology that lets it better understand the concepts behind search terms so that the related suggestions are more on target. So, for example, […]

Endeca Technologies announced a new version of its enterprise search platform this week that it says is better suited for the demands companies have of finding both structured and unstructured data. Endeca also released two search-based solutions for e-commerce and publishing based on its new McKinley Endeca Information Platform. “This is a new direction that […]

Hulu.com, the online video site partnership of NBC Universal and News Corp, saw a surge in traffic last month, according to the latest stats for the United States released today by Web traffic research firm comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR). In February, as Hulu sparred with other companies over content-sharing, traffic to its site rose 55 percent […]

Citysearch, one of the granddaddies of online local resource providers, is jumping on two of the hottest trends in computing: social media and mobile. Thursday’s Citysearch announced an expansion from 150 local city guides to over 75,000 cities and neighborhoods across the countries. Back in 1996, Citysearch was one of the first Web companies to […]

Gmail Labs’ Undo SendClick to enlarge. Google has rolled out another feature designed, evidently, to help protect users from themselves: An “Undo Send” option for its Gmail service. It’s the latest in a series of Google’s experimental Gmail Labs features that the company has been making available as options to users. Gmail Labs’ newest addition, Undo Send, […]

Intel named two new board members today: eBay CEO John Donahoe and Frank Yeary, vice chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. In a related announcement, the company said Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has retired from Intel’s board. Bartz was already an Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) board member when she joined Yahoo earlier this year. Yahoo’s […]