David Needle

Tuesday, December 9 will mark forty years since Silicon Valley legend Doug Engelbart captivated a crowd at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) with a technology demonstration that was about as cutting edge as it gets. “If you used a mouse to click to this article, you have Doug Engelbart to thank for it” is how […]

Google has built an empire using its famous PageRank algorithms and other technology to generate search results. Now, it’s giving users the option to be more directly involved with results by way of its SearchWiki. The latest offering from Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) lets users customize search result rankings and add comments to results. In a […]

There are plenty of Web developer and marketing conferences, but Add-on Con lays claim to the first conference about the growing market for browser add-ons. “We looked at the market and realized there is an unbelievable amount of add-ons coming out and all the major browser players have or are building functionality to support them,” […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – HP Labs is making a number of big bets on new technology areas as part a refocused effort to make its research pay off commercially. The company announced a major reorganization of Labs in March and elaborated on the plans today here at the Dow Jones VentureWire Technology show. “We’re not […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Amazon is typically thought of as an Internet retailing colossus. But not so fast, said Amazon’s Andrew Jassey, senior vice president of Web services. “Amazon is at its heart a technology company,” said Jassey, an 11-year veteran of the company, during a talk here at the Dow Jones VentureWire Technology Showcase. […]

Is it business as usual or a company reeling from the imminent departure of its CEO? To hear Yahoo tell it, its operations will continue normally, with Jerry Yang maintaining his CEO role until a successor is found. Yang announced his plans to cede the CEO slot late Monday in an e-mail to employees as […]

Yahoo’s Jerry YangSource: Reuters Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang won’t be saddled with fixing all of the online media pioneer’s problems for much longer. In a statement released after the markets closed on Monday, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) said its board of directors has initiated a search for a new CEO to replace Yang. The company said […]

If there’s no such thing as bad — or in this case, inaccurate — publicity, Cisco must be very happy today. The company invited a handful of reporters to a ‘TelePresence’ briefing Friday with former basketball star Magic Johnson, CEO and founder of Magic Johnson Enterprises (MJE). Monday, Computerworld, NetworkWorld and InternetNews.com all had [stories […]

Magic Johnson discusses his company’s unified communications tools during a Cisco TelePresence meeting with the press.Click to enlarge.Source: Cisco SAN JOSE, Calif. — For pro basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the new game in town is unified communications. The former Los Angeles Lakers superstar met with a group of reporters Friday via a video conference […]

Google’s investing a lot of time, effort and money into the G1 Android phone initiative to create a wave of advanced mobile devices based on open source code. But the search giant’s primary goal is to get more people using its services, so today’s planned release for the hottest selling smartphone was no surprise. The […]

SAN FRANCISCO – It’s been a year since Google and partners launched OpenSocial, an ambitious effort to establish an open, common standard for writing applications to run across all participating social networks. At an event here hosted by MySpace, several hundred OpenSocial developers gathered to hear about and share programming tips and the latest developments […]

Google Site Search on Zecco.comClick to enlarge. Source: Google In a further bid to attract and maintain customers of its business search service, Google announced a free upgrade to its Site Search offering today that it said would help customers keep their search results fresher and more useful. Google Site Search, or GSS, is the […]