David Needle

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Sun xVM Ops Center, Sun’s datacenter management tool, is available for purchase starting today. Although it’s a new product, Ops Center builds on systems management technology Sun has been developing for years. Ops Center, which Sun first unveiled in November at the Oracle OpenWorld show, boasts features for mixed environments, including […]

More affordable solar energy? Energy from fusion? Reverse-engineer the brain? Those three are among the 14 “grand challenges” for the 21st century announced today by the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The top 14 list is the result of meetings started in 2006 by a diverse committee of experts from around the world. Commenting […]

Seesmic, the video social networking service [I wrote about](/bus-news/article.php/3725261/Visualize+This+With+So+Much+Video+Its+Hard+Not+To.htm) earlier this year, announced a diverse list of investors that ponied up $6 million for a piece of the San Francisco-based company. Heading the list is the investment group Atomico co-founded by Skype creator Niklas Zennstrom. Other notable names on the investor list include: Ron Conway […]

The lawsuit brought by Oracle against SAP and that company’s TomorrowNow subsidiary is headed for mediation. The San Francisco U.S. District Court judge held a meeting with lawyers for both companies Tuesday and ruled the case needs to move to mediation. “We think this direction is appropriate, as it makes sense for the parties to […]

Security vendor McAfee released results of a survey of mobile users focused on their awareness and concerns related to security threats, which showed more than three quarters of respondents don’t have any security at all. The survey was conducted on McAfee’s behalf by analysis firm Datamonitor and released this week. Respondents were spread evenly between […]

Desktop and mobile PCs are slated to be outfitted later this year with a new kind of remote PC support that’s always available. Built on Phoenix Techologies’ HyperSpace platform, the PC management solution is designed to let IT and tech support personnel address problems even while the PC is operating and users are running productivity […]

Yahoo continues firing on all cylinders in the mobile area despite the looming presence of Microsoft’s aggressive moves to acquire the Web giant. Today, Yahoo announced a major push for its forthcoming oneConnect service and an agreement with T-Mobile International. The T-Mobile deal makes Yahoo’s oneSearch the exclusive mobile search service in 11 European markets […]

IBM released several products it said will help telecom service providers offer consistent, high-quality connections more easily to consumers. The new products, available now, are based on IBM’s Tivoli Netcool Service Quality Manager tailored to address three specific services: IPTV , IP-VPN and VoIP. In a related announcement, the company said it would offer similar […]

Online video viewing in the U.S. broke new records in the month of December, according to the latest research by ComScore’s Video Metrix service. The research firm’s stats indicate U.S. Internet users watched a staggering 10 billion videos in the month of December, with Google’s YouTube service leading the charge as the most viewed destination […]

Dr. Russ Riendau is a man on a musical mission. Author of The CEO’s Guide to Talent Acquisition, Riendau thinks companies would do well to encourage more music in the workplace because, he says, it can boost morale and productivity. At his Web site, a picture of guitar-toting, ready-to-rock Riendau, is bracketed by his thoughts […]

UPDATED: Google is now offering another free version of its online software suite. Google Apps Team Edition is designed to help employees, students or other groups within an organization, quickly set up a collaborative work group without the IT department. Users can sign up online for the applications and establish access to shared documents by […]

The enterprise search market has been “revitalized,” according to a Gartner report released Tuesday. Gartner said new features and the ability to handle a broader range of structured data, have made enterprise search more appealing to large companies. The enterprise search market gained a particularly high profile last month when Microsoft announced its plans to […]