David Needle

Is mobile innovation wagging the desktop dog? That certainly seems to be the case when it comes to software distribution. Today Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) provided a bit more detail on its plans to offer a Mac version of its popular App Store for the iPhone and iPad. Apple CEO Steve Jobs had announced the Mac […]

Google announced its first concerted effort to get its Chrome browser in the hands of more enterprise users. Today Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced controls designed to let IT administrators easily configure and deploy the browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems of their choosing. Google said its new MSI installer lets businesses that use standard […]

HP is adding a twist to its enterprise support offerings — a package that includes both traditional “reactive” as well as a set of “proactive” support services. Available starting today, HP (NYSE: HPQ) claims Critical Advantage is the first comprehensive service offering from a major technology vendor to deliver support for business-critical applications in virtualized […]

So-called office automation and digital communications has been with us for decades, but our reliance on paper persists. As far back as 1982, technology analyst Amy Wohl famously stated that “the paperless office is as useful as a paperless bathroom,” and that quip has stood the test of time. But a recent survey by the […]

“Email’s down.” It’s a message all too familiar to companies using Microsoft’s Exchange Server and Outlook email system. Microsoft Exchange users face an average of 2.5 hours of email outages a month, according to an IT survey conducted by the Radicati Groupcited by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) rival Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). “These planned and unplanned outages […]

Google’s YouTube is opening up to much longer videos. Back in July, YouTube expanded the maximum upload time to 15 minutes, but today the video site announced a much longer length of time for select users. “So go find that movie you wrote and filmed last year and share it with the world! Or upload […]

What were the hot IT skills employers were looking for in 2010? Elance, the online jobs platform, issued its annual review of the hot jobs for the year and some predictions for the year ahead. While the company’s analysis is skewed by its focus on online, contract employment, it provides an interesting snapshot of that […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Google unveiled the first test models of the Chrome OS notebooks that use services and applications in the cloud rather than the local storage notebooks traditionally relied on. The search giant had to backtrack a bit from its forecast in November 2009 that the first crop of the new notebooks would be […]

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — The battle between Google and Microsoft over cloud services is heating up. Last week, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) won a coveted contractto provide Web services to the General Services Administration (GSA), beating out Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) in the process, but Microsoft isn’t taking the news lying down. “That contract is email only. […]

If server sales are any indication, the economic recovery is well underway. David Needle reports. Despite continued economic doldrums, the market for servers saw a healthy revenue increase in the third quarter of 2010, according to research released Monday by IDC. Factory revenue in the worldwide server market increased 13.2 percent during the same quarter […]