David Needle

It’s that time of year when the major search companies take a look back at what search terms and categories were popular this year. Yahoo released its list of the most popular search terms to date for this year earlier this week, headed by YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook and iTunes. MySpace headed Ask.com’s list as most […]

Even as Google gears up to support a new generation of mobile phones via its Android software platform, the search giant continues to develop for other mobile devices. On Wednesday, Google released a new application that integrates various Google services into a single interface. The idea is to make it easy for iPhone users to […]

Did Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam misspeak? Just last week, Verizon Wireless made its surprising open access announcement that will let third party devices on its network by the end of next year. Now, according to one published report, Verizon will also support Google’s Android open software development platform for mobile devices. “We’re planning on […]

Sun announced the pricing, availability and further details of the xVM Ops Center virtualization management software it unveiled last month at the Oracle OpenWorld conference. Ops Center goes hand-in-hand with Sun’s other announcement at the conference, its xVM virtualization software. Another part of today’s announcement is that Sun will release the source code used to […]

Pioneering online community LiveJournal has been sold again. Blog software and services company Six Apart announced it’s selling LiveJournal to Russian media company SUP, which already had a licensing deal to manage LiveJournal in that country. The deal sees LiveJournal’s ownership moving to a market where it holds a dominant position. LiveJournal is “a force […]

What do YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook and iTunes all have in common? You might be surprised to know that the four popular Web sites are the top four tech-related search terms on Yahoo. The Sunnyvale, CA-based Internet portal just completed an analysis of top trends for 2007 based on billions of searches at its site this […]

Google wasn’t kidding. After months of comments by company executives that the search giant would “probably” bid in the government’s 700MHz spectrum auction, Google made its intentions to proceed official today. “We believe it’s important to put our money where our principles are,” CEO Eric Schmidt said in a statement. And a lot of money […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – It’s very much the early innings for star pitcher Curt Schilling’s latest endeavor. The Red Sox ace said he plans to build his upstart 38 Studios into a billion-dollar entertainment powerhouse over the next ten years. That, to put it mildly, is an ambitious goal for a company that doesn’t expect […]

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF. — Portals are so twentieth century. Or are they? Joanne Bradford, chief media officer for Microsoft’s MSN site, is brushing aside any criticism that online portals have seen their best days. Speaking at VentureWire’s Consumer Technology Innovations conference here today, she said the portal concept, and MSN in particular, are alive, well […]

Google’s core business is Internet search but that isn’t keeping the company from exploring some other very different areas. On Tuesday, Google announced an ambitious plan to develop electricity from renewable energy sources that will be cheaper than electricity produced from coal. The newly created initiative, known as RE < C, will focus initially on […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Just what we need… more social networks? While Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and others duke it out for dominance in the increasingly crowded social networking scene, Cisco believes we’re still at an early phase when it comes to creating online communities. And the networking giant is aiming to cash in. During first […]

Burst.com has notched another win related to its patented multimedia delivery technology, this time reaching a settlement with Apple. Santa Rosa, Calif.-based Burst said the PC and iPod maker has agreed to pay it a one-time sum of $10 million in exchange for a non-exclusive license to key parts of Burst’s patent portfolio, which relates […]