David Needle

SAN FRANCISCO – What does zapping aliens have to do selling more phone services, computers or even books? Plenty, according to Lyle Fong, co-founder and CEO of Lithium Technologies. In a session at the Web 2.0 conference here, Fong described how hardcore customers share many of the same characteristics of hardcore gamers. Fong knows a […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Web 2.0 hasn’t peaked. In fact, it’s far from peaked, according to Tim O’Reilly, CEO of O’Reilly Media, a co-producer of the Web 2.0 Expo going on here this week. “Are we really done yet?” O’Reilly asked the audience rhetorically. “We have a long way to go.” O’Reilly said even though companies […]

Oracle said it’s developed a more comprehensive archiving solution for customers concerned with compliance issues as well as those needing to search through an expanding number of data types. Oracle’s Universal Online Archive and E-mail Archive Service are set for release this year. Both Archive products are components of Oracle’s Fusion Middleware and already available […]

MENLO PARK, CALIF. – It’s time to raise the raised floors and get serious about energy savings in the datacenter. That was one of the messages Subodh Bapat, a distinguished engineer and vice president of eco-responsibility at Sun, gave here Thursday during an open house for its Sun Labs group. With growing energy costs, space […]

Today’s road warriors look for Wi-Fi hotspots to insure their notebooks and other mobile devices can gain Internet access, but Nokia and others are starting to place bets on the emerging WiMAX connectivity standard with new devices. At this week’s CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) previewed the latest version of its […]

PALO ALTO, CALIF. — Basex chief analyst Jonathan Spira wants to make one thing clear to people who think it’s more effective to juggle multiple tasks at once: “There’s no such thing as multitasking,” Spira said. “We’re switching between tasks, but we [human beings] are not capable of multitasking.” The comments came during a recent […]

Citrix today announced a major deal with HP as part of its plans to grow the market for XenServer, the virtualization software it gained last year with its $500 million dollar purchase of XenSource. The “strategic development and distribution agreement” with HP (NYSE: HPQ) bundles an enhanced version of Citrix XenServer with 64-bit HP ProLiant […]

Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) announced a major upgrade Tuesday of its Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software. VDI 2.0, available now, supports a range of operating systems (Windows XP and Vista, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and Windows Mobile) and works with PCs and Macs as well as Sun’s own Sun Ray thin client. Price is $149 […]

HP announced several moves designed to advance the long-running “adaptive enterprise” strategy it’s been promoting to corporate clients. The company also announced it’s reentered the eight-way server space, with a soon-to-be released ProLiant based on AMD’s quad-core Opteron. This week’s announcements are part of the computer giant’s strategy to capitalize on the growth in consolidation […]

You can expect to see plenty of new third-party applications for Apple’s iPhone. At least that seems a reasonable conclusion based on today’s announcement that over 100,000 developers have downloaded the free software development kit (SDK) Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) unveiled last week. Several big name software firms issued statements of support for the SDK, which is […]