David Needle

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Research in Motion plans to go live with its BlackBerry App World store this month as scheduled. App World is the mobile device maker’s answer to Apple’s phenomenally successful App Store for the iPhone, which already offers over 25,000 applications following its release last year. “We’re excited, very soon it’ll be […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – The mobile market is primed for innovation, but it won’t all be led by the hip, cutting edge devices like the iPhone, BlackBerry and other well-known smartphones. “The enterprise customer is looking for extremely practical applications that can help their business,” said Marty Beard, president of Sybase 365, the software company’s […]

Apple officials and third-party developers dazzled a packed hall here at the company’s headquarters in Cupertino, CA, showing off a beta of its upcoming iPhone software that will introduce some long sought-after enhancements. [To view a video of the event at Apple’s Web site, click here.] Version 3.0 of the iPhone operating system, now at […]

Google released a new version of its Chrome Web browser on Tuesday, as the search giant continues its efforts to get a foothold in a market dominated by Microsoft. The new Chrome represents the first major update of the software aimed at the general public since Google entered the browser business six months ago. It […]

Apple iPhone software chief Scott Forstall. Photo: David Needle.Click to enlarge. CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple officials and third-party developers dazzled a packed hall here at the company’s headquarters, showing off a beta of its upcoming iPhone software that will introduce some long sought-after enhancements. Version 3.0 of the iPhone operating system, now at version 2.2.1, will usher in a […]

Would mobile users pay for a new generation of mobile applications? That question was answered in spades by millions of iPhone users who’ve paid for software via Apple’s App Store for the iPhone. But the majority of the over 500 million downloads at the App Store since its debut last year were for free applications. […]

Companies and celebrities ranging from the Arsenal football club to actress Scarlett Johansson filed a record number of “cybersquatting” cases in 2008 to stop others from profiting from their famous names, brands and events, a United Nations agency said on Sunday. Web sites in dispute in 2008 included references to Madrid’s 2016 Olympics bid, the […]

Yahoo has greatly expanded the potential reach of its Fire Eagle location-sharing service by adding Facebook to the fold. Yahoo’s new Friends on Fire application for Facebook, announced today at the SxSW conference, joins a growing list of real-time, updating services like micro-blogging hit Twitter. The head of Yahoo’s Fire Eagle project, Tom Coates, says […]

A new site offers Twitter users a chance to go beyond the short message feeds the service is famous for and tap a real-time feed of videos being shared on the popular micro-blogging site. A beta of Twitmatic went live earlier this week. The site is based on technology from ffwd (pronounced Fast Forward). The […]

Apple is scheduled to preview an update to the iPhone operating system Tuesday. A media invitation sent to InternetNews.com was typically short on details, but did say attendees can expect a sneak peak at features in the upcoming iPhone 3.0 software and the related software development kit. iPhone developer consultant Raven Zachary said he expects […]

More cracks have appeared in Google’s cloud infrastructure, though the search giant has moved quickly to limit the fallout. Over the weekend, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) admitted a bug in its online Google Docs services affected a “a small percentage of users” and quickly fixed the problem. Today, the company acknowledged that an unspecified, “small” segment […]

A sample search on OneRiotClick to enlarge. “Obama,” “Jonas Brothers” and “Steve Wozniak.” If you search Google, YouTube or any number of video-specific search sites, you’ll find relevant videos on these well-known names in the news. But OneRiot says its social search engine goes beyond relevancy to tap a “real-time index” of what Web surfers are currently […]