David Needle

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple mapped out ambitious plans for the iPhone at an event here focused on the company’s enterprise plans and support for independent developers via a software development kit (SDK). Heading the list of enterprise-friendly features is support for Microsoft’s Exchange server. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced it is working with Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to build […]

For many years, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has complained and put tight restrictions on photography during his appearances. More recently, the once total ban on flash photography has been lifted at his Macworld Expo keynote to allow the pool of media photogs to snap away during the first several minutes of the event. Any further […]

The MacFaithful breathed a collective sigh of relief when Apple CEO announced in 2004 the bad news/good news that he had faced a life-threatening illness, but was cured. Jobs had been given the usually fatal diagnosis he had pancreatic cancer, but it turned out to be a rare treatable form of the disease. And luckily […]

Notebooks keep getting sleeker but that’s not holding back the storage folks. Today Samsung Electronics announced what it said is the world’s first half-terabyte (500 GB) mobile hard drive. The SpinPoint M6 consists of three 167GB platters in a 2.5-inch hard drive frame measuring just 9.5mm in height. These dimensions are no coincidence as they […]

All those companies betting their business models on a surge in mobile advertising can take heart in research released today by The Nielsen Company. Some 23 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers say they’ve been exposed to advertising on their phones in the past 30 days. Even better, about half (28 million) of all data users […]

Blogs, wikis and other social network-type applications are popular among consumers, but large companies continue to struggle with questions as to how, or even if, they should implement the new Web technologies. That’s the conclusion of research firm Gartner that is conducting ongoing research into the socialization of IT and plans to release a major […]

Sybase (NYSE:SY) has built out the capabilities of its iAnywhere Suite for mobile users with a new component dubbed iAnywhere Mobile Office. The idea is help users get more out of their mobile devices by making certain business processes relatively easy to perform. Sybase also announced improvements in security and administration it said would extend […]

Out-googling Google isn’t for the faint of heart, but upstart EveryZing thinks it can compete successfully with the search giant in certain areas. Cambridge, Mass.-based EveryZing launched two new services Wednesday, ezSEO and ezSearch, that are focused on universal search that includes audio and video as well as text. Google has made universal search — […]

Enterprise customers may not have long to wait to find out how the iPhone might be a better corporate citizen. An Apple spokesman told InternetNews.com the company has “some very exciting news for enterprise customers” it will reveal at a media event planned for March 6. Applications that run on the iPhone via its Safari […]

Apple came out with new upgraded models of its MacBook and MacBook Pro line today that are faster and include more storage than earlier models, as well as a feature introduced in the ultrathin MacBook Air. The higher end of Apple’s notebook line, the MacBook Pro with 15.4-inch widescreen, now runs on an Intel Core […]

Social networking site LinkedIn is the latest online service to take a more mobile-friendly stance, as wireless devices continue to become more Web-enabled and attract applications typically used by desktop and notebook computer users. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company today announced m.linkedin.com, a special Web site where mobile device users can access their LinkedIn accounts. […]

Microsoft’s proposed $1.2 billion purchase of Norwegian enterprise search vendor Fast Search and Transfer (FAST) last month gave a suddenly high profile to a relatively quiet segment of the search industry. Now some competitors are jumping on the deal’s implications to try and woo customers away from FAST. Exalead announced a new migration program called […]