David Needle

The biannual DEMO conference starts this week in Palm Desert, Calif., with a gaggle of new tech products and services from startups and more well established companies. On Tuesday, the first of 77 different companies will show off a range of products spanning both consumer and business interests. DEMO’s impresario, Chris Shipley, said the conference […]

How do you get a top listing on Digg, the community site that ranks news stories and Web sites based on popularity? Perhaps only the founders and high-level technical people at Digg know the true answer — the algorithm and policies behind Digg’s ranking system — but that hasn’t stopped others from trying to “game” […]

Vivisimo has released Remix, a new twist to the clustering search technology used in its Clusty search engine. Clusty.com is Vivisomo’s public, technology showcase site. The company makes most of its revenue from Velocity 6.0, its enterprise search platform based on the same clustering technology as the public site, including Remix. Clustering is at the […]

HP announced it has acquired Exstream Software, a leading provider of enterprise software that helps companies personalize mass mailings and other business documents. Financial details were not disclosed. Exstream, based in Lexington, Kentucky, has more than 300 employees. Exstream’s two main product lines, Dialogue and Dialogue Live, are designed for creating documents offline and online, […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Technology startups often say they create products to address a need in the marketplace. In the case of iMedix, its two founders saw a direct personal need. The two Israelis had health related issues they thought Internet technology could help with. Amir Leitersdorf suffered from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) throughout his […]

Last month Microsoft helped form an industry association focused on helping developers make hardware and software more accessible. On Thursday, Microsoft announced more tangible steps to help that effort along. The Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA), formed in December, includes such Microsoft rivals as Adobe, Novell and Oracle. Specifically, Microsoft said it would grant a royalty-free […]

Google’s come a long way from its famously sparse search page. Oh sure, the spartan look is still the default on Google’s default search page, but the company’s iGoogle personalized home page keeps getting more visual. Today, for example, Google announced further graphical extensions with the release of the iGoogle Themes API . With the […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Maybe Macworld Expo should borrow a page from Apple and change its name. Last year, Apple changed its name from Apple Computer to simply Apple, Inc., reflecting its broader-than-Mac product portfolio. While there were plenty of Mac-related exhibitors at the annual show here this week, the exhibit floor was peppered with iPod, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — A heavy fog descended here this morning, but Apple CEO Steve Jobs brought the Mac faithful a healthy dose of virtual sunshine at Macworld Expo. With rumors flying in the weeks leading up to the event, none of Jobs’ announcements during today’s keynote address came as complete surprises. But the overflow crowd […]

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF — Moka5, a startup virtualization services company, is releasing Macintosh support at this week’s Macworld Expo extending availability of its LivePC library already available for Windows. Moka5 leverages virtualization software (currently VMware, though support for other providers is planned), to provide a secure computing environment with features such as self-healing, data protection […]

Google today made another mobile announcement, but it’s related to Apple’s iPhone, rather than the much-hyped Open Handset Alliance (OHA) it sponsors. The company introduced improvements to the suite of Web applications it offers for the device — Search, Gmail, Calendar and Reader. Google began offering the suite only last month. As indicated by its […]

The virtual envelopes have been opened and the top ten winners announced this week for Nielsen Norman Group’s annual Ten Best Designed Intranets competition. NNG, a well-known usability consulting firm, said the eighth annual competition attracted about a hundred entries worldwide. The ten winners included five organizations from the U.S., with the remainder from outside […]