David Needle

It was a dark, cold and rainy day in Silicon Valley when Steve Jobs announced that the colorful new iMac would have no floppy drives. Oh wait, that’s today’s weather. Okay, I don’t actually recall what the weather was like back in 1998 when Apple unveiled the colorful iMac, but the response sure was cold […]

With employment in the U.S. stagnant if not slipping, there’s plenty of interest in job opportunities. One of the biggest growth areas has been freelance and contract work aided by technology advances that enable more jobs to be done remotely, either from home or in a mobile office situation. Two of the biggest companies offering […]

What’s next from Google? Usually you don’t have very long to wait for news from the Googleplex. Just yesterday, the company unveiled a new smartphone called the Nexus S that will run the latest version of the Android operating system. But today’s news was all about Google’s other operating system project, the Chrome OS. As […]

There’s no love lost between Microsoft and Google. The two goliaths are locked in competition in a variety of fronts in the tech sector, spanning from the consumer Web to enterprise operations. One of the most contentious battlegrounds is in Web-based productivity apps, where Google is trying to unseat the dominant market position that Microsoft […]

There was a lot of interest in IT circles and elsewhere in netbooks when they came on the scene a few years ago as a more portable, less expensive alternative to full-fledged notebooks. But netbook sales and innovation leveled out in the past year, while Apple’s iPad became the new gotta have portable alternative. But […]

The Web has been a great source of consumer deals for well over a decade. And on the email front, the regular email blasts of “special offers” and discounts from a staggeringly broad range of vendors are nothing new. But now a new crop of Web startups have merged the Web discount and email blast […]

Mobile devices, applications, social media and cloud services will combine to create the next dominant computing platform, according the latest report from IT research firm IDC. As Enterprise Mobile Today reports, IDC predicts sales of mobile devices including smartphones and tablet PCs like the iPad will outpace PC sales within in 18 months and developers […]

Servers aren’t always the most exciting segment of the tech industry, but their importance to companies large and small can’t be overstated. The key players, HP, IBM, Dell, etc. are in a dogfight to deliver more performance, reliability and other features to win a bigger share of the enterprise market. As Server Watch details, IDC […]

When was the last time someone pulled you over to show you their nifty new PC? Chances are good that it’s been awhile. And therein lays one of the reasons a leading research firm just revised its PC sales forecast downward — there simply isn’t that much new in PCs to get buyers excited. Monday […]

Leo Apotheker’s tenure as the CEO of computing giant HP has been shrouded in unwelcome controversy stemming from an intellectual-property dispute between Oracle and SAP, Apotheker’s former employer. But amid that distraction, HP reported strong financials for the fourth quarter, topping analysts’ expectations with earnings of $1.33 per share. HP’s revenue was buoyed by brisk […]

For more on cloud computing and the enterprise, visit Internet.com’s new cloud computing site. It’s not always easy being the new kid on the block. Google’s made remarkable progress signing up new users to its set of cloud-based Google Apps, ranging from individuals and small businesses to some significant educational, government and Fortune 100 corporate […]

What’s next from Twitter? As the social network’s popularity grows, the company is struggling to balance the needs of developers and the urgency it feels to implement improvements as soon as possible, even if that means effectively cutting off some opportunities for outside developers. During a wide-ranging, onstage interview at this week’s Web 2.0 Summit, […]