David Needle

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has yet to comment publicly on the recent brouhaha related to charges it’s not being consistent in rejecting certain applications from appearing on its iPhone App Store. The App Store has been phenomenally successful since its launch last July, attracting thousands of developers offering a variety of new applications both paid and […]

The venerable Silicon Valley investment firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) has already spent $30 million on iPhone-related startups and now it has launched blog. Right, just what we need, another blog. But this one should be of keen interest to those following the iPhone, particularly developers and others in the mobile industry. “We’re […]

Alex Sokirynsky is one of the thousands of developers to enthusiastically jump on the iPhone bandwagon with a new application. But he waited for weeks to have his Podcaster application approved by Apple for distribution via its App Store. The good news is his $9.99 application wasn’t rejected; the bad news was nothing was happening, […]

Chief Yahoo David Filo Source: Yahoo SUNNYVALE, Calif. – You might say hacking has come full circle for Yahoo. The venerable Web site started as a kind of “hack,” a way for Stanford Ph.D. students David Filo and Jerry Yang to provide a guide to the emerging World Wide Web back in 1994. “The site […]

Phone giant AT&T plans to eventually link Apple’s iPhone to its high-speed Internet and video service called U-verse, and introduce new features like using the phone as a remote control. At an event on Monday to showcase some recently developed technologies that are not yet being marketed, AT&T emphasized that in the future, consumers should […]

Well, that’s what I thought was going to happen Thursday. Yahoo invited an A list of media to a press briefing on its strategy. I was told by Yahoo’s PR firm that embattled CEO Jerry Yang would be there along with other Yahoo execs. But Jerry was a no show. Gillian Nash, a Yahoo senior […]

Source: Yahoo SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Like the guy in The Graduate who whispers the secret to success to the Dustin Hoffman character — “Plastics” — Yahoo execs held a media briefing here Thursday to lay out the key a growth strategy that could be described in a word: “Open.” Speaker after speaker detailed plans to […]

(L to R) Howard Bloom, Peter Norvig, Prabhkar Raghavan, Jon Udell. Click to enlarge.Source: Brian Solis, for DEMO SAN DIEGO — Search has become so pervasive on the Web as part of our regular activities that it’s tempting to assume it will be central to any future Web advances. Prabhakar Raghavan, head of research at […]

SAN DIEGO — Consumer products and services took center stage here yesterday at the wrap-up to this week’s DEMO conference. Here’s a quick look at two of them. Does Mapflow have the answer to the high cost of gas, boring commutes and traffic jams? Doubtful, but the company is at least taking a whack at […]

SAN DIEGO — The first day of the DEMO conference here saw a range of clever applications that drew the occasional hoots of appreciation, laughter for presentation and polite applause for functionality. Then came Maverick Mobile. There wasn’t much to indicate the company had anything but another mobile security solution as CEO Sujit Jain explained […]

Startups giving their pitches at the DEMO conference. Source: DEMO SAN DIEGO — The DEMO conference kicked off here today with a pitch by executive producer Chris Shipley that the Internet industry is entering a new phase. You might even say it’s now at the edge of the Fifth Dimension. The original “flat” Web was […]

SAN DIEGO — The annual DEMO tech conference will feature consumer and business debuts including music and photo sharing services, a raft of mobile services, and even a new family tree genealogy service that includes a DNA kit. Plus, search engine technology will get a fresh look. But there is a caveat for each of […]