David Needle

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. government auction of wireless airwaves ended on Tuesday raising a record $19.59 billion, but winners of the valuable spectrum were not immediately identified. Analysts view Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) and Vodafone Group as the most likely winner of a nationwide piece of the airwaves called […]

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced a major upgrade today of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software. VDI 2.0, available now, supports a range of operating systems (Windows XP and Vista, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows Mobile) and works with PCs and Macs as well as Sun’s own Sun Ray thin client. Price is $149 […]

HP announced several moves designed to advance the long-running “adaptive enterprise” strategy it’s been promoting to corporate clients. The company also announced it’s reentered the eight-way server space, with a soon-to-be released ProLiant based on AMD’s quad-core Opteron. This week’s announcements are part of the computer giant’s strategy to capitalize on the growth in consolidation […]

When Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) recently unveiled its enterprise strategy for the iPhone, it gave a list of features it said were the most requested by the IT managers it surveyed. Indeed, Apple was credited with reaching out to sometime rival Microsoft to offer native support for Exchange and ActiveSync technology to better secure and integrate with […]

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced developer event details this week aimed at independent creators of the programs so crucial to the success of both companies. A few noteworthy items in the announcements. Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco will now include a track for iPhone developers. Four days after the release […]

Well, it’s not quite the phone that’s a health aid, but a new service launched today called Wellphone, promises to help you keep your fitness quest on track when you’re on the go. Nothing to download, you just register at the Wellsphere Web site. Once registered, you can get text message reminders, daily tips, local […]

HP (NYSE:HPQ) announced today it’s appointed a former executive of Sun and Azul Systems to a leadership post in its Personal System Group (PSG). Stephen DeWitt’s new role as senior vice president for the Americas region of PSG is effective immediately. He replaces Mike Larson, whom HP said is retiring after 12 years of executive […]

You can expect to see plenty of new third-party applications for Apple’s iPhone. At least that seems a reasonable conclusion based on today’s announcement that over 100,000 developers have downloaded the free software development kit (SDK) Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) unveiled last week. Several big name software firms issued statements of support for the SDK, which is […]

Now that European regulators have cleared Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) $3.1 billion acquisition of online ad server DoubleClick, is it time for online competitors to close up shop? Hardly. Google has a long way to go before it can hope to gain anywhere near the level of market dominance in display advertising (DoubleClick’s specialty) that it […]

Apple always likes to have at least one surprise when it makes a product announcement and last week was no exception. When Apple execs were done detailing the company’s plans to enhance enterprise support for the iPhone, CEO Steve Jobs had his well-worn “One more thing” to announce. John Doerr, the legendary venture capitalist and […]

Microsoft’s Office productivity suite is the latest focus of its regular monthly patches, with the software colossus today urging users to lock down a dozen vulnerabilities — four of which it considers “critical”. Today’s updates — part of Microsoft’s routine “Patch Tuesday” fixes — come as Office security is receiving renewed attention from Microsoft and […]

STANFORD, Calif. – What role does the federal government have in the network neutrality debate? Where are things at with the 700 MHz wireless spectrum auction? Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin addressed these and other issues today at an event here at the Stanford Law School. The FCC has been on something of […]