David Needle

UPDATED: Patricia Dunn, who resigned from Hewlett-Packard last week in the wake of its boardroom leaks investigation scandal, has been indicted by California’s Attorney General and faces arrest. Dunn, the ex-chairwoman of HP who headed the leaks investigation, was indicted along with four others in a criminal felony complaint filed in California’s Santa Clara County […]

Sometimes it’s hard to be easy. IBM has revitalized its mainframe business in recent years, but the company is concerned that the big system’s complexity could be a barrier to winning new business. “We think we have the most sophisticated operating system on the planet,” John Burg, product marketing manager for IBM’s System z mainframes, […]

Lenovo is the latest notebook vendor to announce a battery recall due to concerns of overheating that could lead to its ThinkPad notebooks catching fire. Today, Lenovo and IBM said they will cooperate with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in a voluntary recall of approximately 526,000 lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony for ThinkPad […]

SAN DIEGO — Several vendors took turns at a conference here to slam the limitations of cell phones and then offer services designed to make them more useful. “Your mobile phone is where photos go to die,” quipped Chris Shipley, producer of the DEMO conference. The majority of photos taken with cell phones today are […]

1. Hurd’s Stronger Than Ever? While the scandal has battered CEO Mark Hurd’s once sterling reputation and even threatened his tenure at HP, his influence and power at the world’s biggest computer company has, for now, actually grown. Hurd’s assumed the additional title of chairman of the company and is in a position to largely […]

Intel’s restructuring announcement today included specifics on its plans to reduce headcount and expenses. Earlier this year, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said he was on a mission to cut at least $1 billion in expenses from the chip giant’s budget, though no major staff cuts were expected at that time. Today, Intel said it expects […]

Those new notebook computers you bought for the sales department are working great, but what to do with the dozens of old ones they turned in? If you think that question has an easy answer, think again. Many of the once-standard options for disposing of old computers include considerable risk, both financially and legally. First […]

Apple Computer (Quote, Chart) became the latest company to announce a recall of over a million notebook computer batteries. Like Dell last week, Apple announced a voluntary recall in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission of lithium ion battery packs made by Sony. The Apple recall covers about 1.1 million battery packs in the […]

There are hot-selling notebooks and notebooks too hot to sell. Unfortunately for Dell, (Quote, Chart) it has the latter. The biggest selling computer maker confirmed it is joining with the U.S. Consumer Products and Safety Commission (USCPSC) in a voluntary recall of some 4.1 million notebook batteries manufactured between 2004 and 2006. The Dell-branded, lithium-ion batteries […]

Cisco Systems announced Thursday it has made a $50 million investment and purchase of startup Nuova Systems, with the option to invest as much as $42 million more. Headed by former Cisco executive Mario Mazzola, Nuova Systems will become a Cisco subsidiary, owned 80 percent by Cisco and 20 percent by Nuova Systems employees. The […]