David Needle

T-Mobile’s G1 smartphone may soon have company in the market for Android-powered mobile phones. Today, the Open Handset Alliance, the Google-backed group driving adoption of the Android open source platform for mobile, announced 14 new members. The list includes a few high profile players (Ericsson, Garmin International, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone) as well […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. – A group of computer pioneers, tech visionaries and other deep thinkers gathered here to kick off a two day celebration of Doug Engelbart’s famous demo forty years ago. The 1968 event at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was considered the first public demonstration of many computing concepts we take for granted today: […]

Will Google’s new Friend Connect help Webmasters add a “dash of social” to their sites? That’s what the search giant is promising with today’s announcement. The idea is to make it easy to let Web site owners add social networking features like chat, games and ratings by simply copying and pasting a few lines of […]

There’s not much doubt, health concerns aside, that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will give the keynote early next month at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. But pity the show producers. You’d have to think they would love the chance to promote Macworld Expo months in advance as featuring a keynote by the best known CEO […]

My trip to Boston for Thanksgiving started bad and got worse. Boarded the plane in plenty of time, but as we taxied down the runway at SFO, the smells began. Oil was burning somewhere and everyone had to deplane. The plane rode off to an EPA-designated area to burn-off excess oil that had spilled. When […]

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — To investment banker Paul Deninger, the opportunity for so-called “clean tech” to become the next mega-industry is easy to see. He puts the logic this way: “When PCs became more powerful we didn’t need fewer of them, we wanted more,” he said. “We found new ways to use personal computers […]

Investment banker Paul Deninger had a message for the well-heeled group of BlackBerry-toting venture capitalists at the posh Ritz Carlton hotel in Half Moon Bay, CA this week — lose the bottled water. “People are surprised when I tell them bottled water is more than $5 billion a year in the U.S.,” said Deninger, vice […]

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — The financial crisis, now officially a recession, isn’t slowing some tech giants’ interest in acquisitions. Investment officials from a cross section of tech heavyweights agreed in a panel discussion here that the economic downturn isn’t swaying their interest in doing deals. “We won’t shy away from deals because of the […]

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. – Ditch the notebook for a smartphone? It may not yet be a mainstream idea, but there’s an explosion of mobile applications making the concept more viable. Several mobile vendors showed applications that bring new capabilities to handheld devices here today at the AlwaysOn Venture Summit. PageOnce gives users the ability […]

To paraphrase a famous quote by Michael Douglas in the movie Wall Street, “Green is good.” Much like their server and desktop computer brethren, mobile device makers may tout the “greenness” of their devices and environmental aspects like recycling programs. But the cost of going green may be too much for many of these vendors […]

Note to investors: Don’t get too comfortable with the falling price of oil. Merrill Lynch’s clean tech strategist Steven Milunovich said in a report this week that energy concerns aren’t about to disappear. But as a result, he said he sees long-term investment opportunity in environmentally friendly, or “clean,” technologies, such as solar and wind […]

Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have become enormously popular among consumers. But are businesses really prepared to embrace them? Many businesses aren’t ready to throw open their networks to Web 2.0 traffic unless it meets certain thresholds. There must be a clear business value and assurances that services don’t pose a security threat. “I […]