David Needle

Are chief information officers worried about the slowing economy and the impact a recession could bring to IT budgets? The answer, based on a survey of CIOs Gartner conducted between February and March might best be summarized as “not very much.” On a global basis Gartner said a majority of CIOs (62 percent) reported no […]

Today’s road warriors look for Wi-Fi hotspots to insure their notebooks and other mobile devices can gain Internet access, but Nokia and others are starting to place bets on the emerging WiMAX connectivity standard with new devices. At this week’s CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) previewed the latest version of its […]

AOL Tuesday unveiled the latest in a series of moves designed to expand its presence on mobile devices. At the giant CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, AOL released a beta of its AOL MyMobile all-in-one set of applications and detailed expanded developer support for the Open Mobile Platform initiative it announced in February. MyMobile […]

HP waited until after the market closed today to announce its acquisition of Australian-based Tower Software, a leading provider of document and records management software. Terms of the deal, expected to close in the second quarter of this calendar year, were not disclosed. The acquisition of Tower would seem a good complement to HP current […]

You might say Google is coming down from the cloud, or at least cloud computing, for its latest announcement. Today the search giant unveiled a phased rollout of a new feature for users of the company’s online word processor, Google Docs — an enhancement that enables users to edit documents offline, as well. Over the […]

PALO ALTO, CALIF. — Basex chief analyst Jonathan Spira wants to make one thing clear to people who think it’s more effective to juggle multiple tasks at once: “There’s no such thing as multitasking,” Spira said. “We’re switching between tasks, but we [human beings] are not capable of multitasking.” The comments came during a recent […]

In the high-stakes game of sport contracts, the Major League Baseball Players Association has added a new hitter to its lineup. The MLBPA has adopted IBM’s Cognos business intelligence (BI) software to analyze, compare and project player stats and chart individual players’ progress over the course of the season, which starts this week. What’s an […]

Google “lost” the recently concluded government auction of 700MHz spectrum, but it’s continuing its push to open up the airways. Many observers think Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) didn’t care that much about winning any of the spectrum (the big winners were Verizon Wireless and AT&T) because it had already won its primary objective. In agreeing to be […]

LOS ANGELES — A puppet show version of “Harry Potter” featuring a naked Dumbledore and an enigmatic song called “Chocolate Rain” by a Minnesota graduate student were among the winners of YouTube’s second annual video awards, the Web site said on Friday. Tay Zonday, a 25-year-old baritone PhD student in American Studies, won best music […]

SAN MATEO, Calif. –- The Web may be pulling readers away from traditional newspapers, but it’s not because people don’t like newsprint or the delivery isn’t timely enough. That was one of the assertions made here during a lively discussion among media experts during a panel discussion this week. The event, sponsored by the non-profit […]

IBM may not be a name you immediately associate with mobile devices, but don’t be fooled. The computer giant is gearing up to help developers bring mashups , social networks and other Web 2.0 applications to mobile devices. To that end, IBM (NYSE:IBM) said Sprint (NYSE:S) is releasing a beta version of its software platform […]

Citrix today announced a major deal with HP as part of its plans to grow the market for XenServer, the virtualization software it gained last year with its $500 million dollar purchase of XenSource. The “strategic development and distribution agreement” with HP (NYSE: HPQ) bundles an enhanced version of Citrix XenServer with 64-bit HP ProLiant […]