David Needle

When it comes to technology, Silicon Valley is loathe to take a back seat to its neighbor to the north, San Francisco. Last year the city of San Francisco announced plans to offer free Wi-Fi internet service; now its tech neighbor plans to do the same. Smart Valley, an initiative of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple’s Steve Jobs earns a well-deserved reputation for hype, but he also gets less credit for a tendency to under-promise and over-deliver. This was evident in Job’s big announcement at Macworld today where the rumored Intel-based Macs were announced with greater performance specs and well ahead of schedule. The iMacs are shipping […]

Those tiny, key chain-ready storage devices are getting a makeover in capability and design. Known as thumb drives or jump drives, among other monikers, the handy USB-compatible drives have been growing not only in storage capacity but with new capabilities to launch and augment applications. At the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, […]

As if there weren’t enough problems with the recent onset of new virus and spyware attacks. Mobile workers face an additional set of problems all their own. Fiberlink Communications has released a free on demand video at its Web site that details what it calls ongoing security risks and vulnerabilities that threaten mobile workers. The […]

If the avian flu became an epidemic here, or worse, a worldwide pandemic, is your company prepared? Most likely the answer is no, and that’s a big problem according to Basex, a New York-based research firm that specializes in collaborative business environments. In a report released this week, Basex says eighty percent of large companies […]

It looks like business users aren’t taking advantage of the power of PDAs in a connected or online mode because they are too hard to use. At least that’s one of the conclusions of a new report released today by Strategy Analytics, which surveyed business users of PDAs and cell phones. “What we found is […]

As demand for VoIP products continues to grow, so will the market for the integrated circuits that make the Internet-enabled voice communication possible. Research firm In-Stat is forecasting a five-fold increase in VoIP ICs, as VoIP functionality is increasingly integrated into customer premise equipment including modems, routers and residential gateways. In-Stat pegged the VoIP market […]

HP Labs isn’t the only R&D facility in the Silicon Valley. In fact, it isn’t even the biggest one. But it counts a string of innovative breakthroughs to its name. And despite recent management changes, and the distraction of numerous acquisitions, the prototypical Silicon Valley firm, which started in a garage, has kept its investment […]

In a major boost to the once high-flying browser, HP has announced it will pre-load the latest version of Netscape on new consumer PCs and notebooks set for release this January. ”HP believes in giving the customer choice. This decision is reflective of the momentum of users in the marketplace who are choosing to have […]

Hewlett-Packard’s story is more than selling big servers, advanced storage systems and just about any kind of printer you can imagine. Take its software business: It generates more than a billion dollars a year in revenue. HP Financial Services also is one of the largest financing organizations in the world. Or how about that stuffy […]