David Needle

David Needle is a veteran technology reporter based in Silicon Valley. He covers mobile, big data, customer experience, and social media, among other topics. He was formerly news editor at Infoworld, editor of Computer Currents and TabTimes, and West Coast bureau chief for both InformationWeek and Internet.com.

HP Updates Project Portfolio & Management Software

How does your organization decide where to invest and prioritize projects? With competing interests, budget and staffing and a host of other factors, projects can easily go off...

Primadesk Aims to Manage ‘Cloud Chaos’

Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Picasa, SugarCRM and on it goes. The growth of cloud services has spread an increasing amount of user's content across the Web. And while...

Intel’s Thunderbolt Offers Superfast Transfer Rates

Intel took the wraps off its Thunderbolt high-speed data transfer product today that promises to greatly improve data transfer rates and more easily manage demanding applications like...

HP Unveils Data Center Design Service

Remember data centers? All the cloud computing hype may make it seem like IT expansion and growth is all headed to the cloud, but that's far from...

Zendesk Brings Help Desk to the iPad

With today's release of a help desk application running on Apple's iPad, Zendesk is helping to shake up the classic image of help desk support as...

IE9 Pushes Forward With RC Release

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft is edging closer to a final RTW (Release to Web) of its Internet Explorer 9 browser, showcasing features in the new Release Candidate...

Oracle Unveils Cloud File System

The new Oracle Cloud File System released this week gives IT the ability to readily access a pool of storage resources in the "elastic cloud" system. Essentially,...

VMware Pushes Hybrid Cloud With vCloud Connector

VMware advanced its cloud computing strategy this week with the release of VMware vCloud Datacenter services from partners and a free plug-in called vCloud Connector that gives...

SAP Unveils Enhanced Business ByDesign Platform

Enterprise software vendor SAP claims its latest offerings will enable companies to better deal with the intricacies of global financial reporting, among other tasks. David Needle reports....

Apple Planning Graphics Pen, New Input Devices?

Recent patent filings by Apple reveal that the company may be developing a graphics pen for the iPad and researching other advancements in user interface and input...

Google Tweaks Docs for Better Access to Content

Google has made several improvements to the way its Google Docs program handles documents that it plans to roll out over the next several days. About a year...

Android Smartphone Sales Top iPhone, Blackberry

Despite tough competition from the iPhone and Blackberry, the Android has emerged -- worldwide -- as the smartphone leader. David Needle reports. Android the giant continues to loom...

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