David Needle

**UPDATE:** The folks at One Laptop Per Child got back to me with a statement following [my recent blog post ](http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2008/09/olpc-taps-amazon-for-low-cost.html)on its plans to sell through online commerce giant, Amazon. It was tough to get many details on this story because the only information came from a news items briefly quoting an OLPC team member […]

The results are in, and they show athletes weren’t the only ones to set records at the just-completed Olympic games in Beijing. Online video coverage of the events broke several records and established entirely new categories for online viewing, according to NBC technology partner Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA). “More than 6 million people accessed NBCOlympics.com […]

The One Laptop Per Child project is looking to mega-online retail giant Amazon to try and pump more sales for its kid-friendly, XO notebook computer. Specifically, Amazon will be the main reseller for OLPC’s “Give One, Get One” program it developed last year, according to [a report ](http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/090408-olpcs-dual-boot-linux-windows.html). Neither Amazon nor OLPC has anything about […]

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has e-mailed the tech press invites to a media event next Tuesday titled “Let’s Rock” with an image of a man jumping in the air while he listens to an iPod. And one more bit of text, “playing soon.” The invite just about confirms rumors that have swirled for some time that […]

Small to medium size companies may get on the social networking bandwagon –- eventually. But creating wikis, blogging and the other components of social networks don’t often get high priority at companies with limited IT resources or the time and expertise to implement and manage them. Socialcast thinks it has one solution with the latest […]

As expected, upstart PsyStar responded to Apple’s copyright infringement suit with a counterclaim of its own Thursday, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. PsyStar’s counterclaim charges Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) with restraint of trade, unfair competition and other violations of antitrust law. PsyStar’s counterclaim seeks unspecified compensation and “a declaration as […]

Whoops. The Bloomberg newswire made a bit of unwanted news of its own Wednesday when it accidentally posted an obituary for Steve Jobs who, by all accounts, is still very much alive. Bloomberg quickly removed the post (although not before Gawker.com [published the gaffe](http://gawker.com/5042795/bloomberg-runs-steve-jobs-obituary)), when it realized its mistake. Publications routinely prepare draft obituaries on […]

It looks like Mac cloner Psystar is finally ready to respond to Apple’s lawsuit last month that charged the Doral, Florida-based startup with selling computers using unauthorized copies of Apple’s Leopard operating system. Psystar has continued to operate since the suit, selling mail-order, Intel-based computers loaded with Apple’s OS. This week reports surfaced that the […]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s time as a member of Apple’s board of directors is starting to pay off. Okay, in truth I have no idea if Google is borrowing directly from Apple’s secrecy playbook, but the way information about the forthcoming Android line of phones is coming out in dribs and “exclusive” sneak peak drabs, […]

Admit it, what would you really like to do: manage your calendar or race a monkey encased in a transparent ball through a dazzling 3-D landscape of obstacles? iPhone users have voted for the latter; Super Monkey Ball ($9.99) is one of a raft of games and entertainment titles for the iPhone atop both the […]

Apple may have jumped the gun with its ad campaign touting the iPhone 3G’s faster performance (“Twice as fast, half the price”) on AT&T’s 3G network. One month after launch, the company finally responded this week to complaints on user forums and other online sites that, in fact, the iPhone 3G’s performance wasn’t all that […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — There’s no such thing as a Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) killer and companies (from startups to mighty Microsoft) are crazy to think they can dethrone the search king. Second, Internet startups should be scrambling to mine the next big opportunity in search: providing local services enabled by the new generation of GPS-enabled […]