David Needle

Click on the graphic for a larger view of OneRiot Sure, Google rules when it comes to most popular search engine, but do you want the most “relevant” search results or the latest? OneRiot.com leans toward the latter. The site officially debuted Wednesday after offering a pre-release version under the name Me.dium since July. OneRiot […]

Google announced a significant enhancement to the chat feature in its Gmail email service today with the addition of video and voice features. The free plug-in lets users start a video and voice (or voice-only) session within Gmail. You don’t have to launch a separate application to start a video session. AOL’s popular Instant Messenger […]

While introducing himself to a packed hall of iPhone developers and entrepreneurs last week, Raven Zachary briefly mentioned one piece of bad news; an upcoming developer event he was supposed to co-chair later this month, had been canceled. Zachary moderated a session on “The iPhone Market Opportunity” at O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Summit and was set […]

Tuesday, Cisco CEO John Chambers will be in the Big Apple to announce a partnership with the New York Yankees. Details haven’t been announced. The press invite says in part: “Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers, along with a marquee sports franchise, will make a significant news announcement in New York City and discuss not […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Former Vice President Al Gore didn’t invent the Internet, but he definitely has some thoughts on how it should evolve. Speaking at the wrap up session at the Web 2.0 Summit here Friday, Gore compared the Web to a new puppy that needs a purpose. “The purpose I would urge as many […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Tech execs gave a dour assessment of the near-erm impact of the faltering economy on the tech industry. “My sense is this is the deepest [economic downturn] I’ve seen in my lifetime,” said Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel at the Web 2.0 Summit here last week. “The smart people I talk to […]

Newsom (l) and Huffington (r) Photo: James Duncan Davidson SAN FRANCISCO – Was the Web the difference in Barack Obama’s rise to the Presidency? Bloggers like to think it is, including a panel of political experts at the closing day of the Web 2.0 Summit here. Then again, all three panelists strongly supported Obama in […]

Intel CEO Paul Otellini speaks at the Web 2.0 SummitPhoto: James Duncan Davidson SAN FRANCISCO — One of the last things you’d expect from the world’s biggest chip manufacturer is social networking software. And yet, Intel CEO Paul Otellini today appeared here at the Web 2.0 Summit to talk about Intel’s take on the white-hot […]

Yahoo CEO Jerry YangSource: Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — Oh, what lousy timing. Yahoo’s embattled CEO, Jerry Yang, lived up to his commitment to speak at the Web 2.0 Summit here late Wednesday — on the same day that Google scrapped an ambitious, search ad deal with his company. That revenue-sharing agreement had promised to bring […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Is Apple the next Google? When it comes to mobile innovation, at least one developer sees parallels. “Apple has shown, as Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) did before, that it can reinvent an entire market,” said Raven Zachary, a consultant to iPhone developers and founder of a developer conference called iPhoneDevCamp. Zachary was joined […]

Email, instant messaging, social networks – the list of ways to connect to other people online continues to expand. And with that expansion comes distraction; the need to launch different programs, check for updates and manage your “presence” online. Enter VoxOx, a new kind of universal communications service from TelCentris, a San Diego-based telephony company. […]

IBM could have jokingly called it an iSuit, but Big Blue doesn’t seem in the mood for laughs when it comes to protecting its trade secrets, especially with chips and blade systems. That’s one reason the computer giant has filed a lawsuit against a former executive, Mark Papermaster, to prevent him from joining Apple (NASDAQ: […]