David Needle

The good news for PC makers is that research firm Gartner expects PC shipments to continue to boom along in 2010, on pace to total 352.4 million units for the year, a 14.3 percent bump up from 2009. But the bad news is that those numbers represent a drop from Gartner’s earlier estimate of 18.1 […]

HP’s (NYSE: HPQ) new CEO Leo Apotheker is hitting the ground running (and not from Oracle). The computer giant reported earnings per-share of $1.33 on revenue of $33.3 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2010. Those results beat the forecast of analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters who had been expecting earnings of $1.27 a […]

Google is ready to show off what its plans are for DocVerse, the startup it bought back in March. DocVerse had built a cloud-based add-on for Microsoft Office designed to let users easily share and edit Office documents online. Starting Monday, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) plans to offer the revamped DocVerse (renamed Google Cloud Connect for […]

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) posted solid earnings for the third quarter today of $822 million or 42 cents a share. That’s up from $377 million for the same quarter a year ago, and beat the forecast by analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters who on average expected Dell to earn 32 cents a share. Revenue in the […]

Independent developers have helped Google steadily ramp up its Apps Marketplace, an online storefront for programs that works with the company’s Google Apps suite. But Thursday Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced a significant expansion of available applications by bringing its own Web services into the Apps fold. Specifically, Google said such services as Google Voice, Reader, […]

While some managed service providers position themselves as alternatives to Amazon’s fast-growing Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datapipe is taking a different approach, embracing and extending AWS for enterprise customers interested in tapping into the cloud. “It’s a pretty unique thing in the marketplace and validates the interest in the cloud today in the enterprise,” Ed […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook showed off a new messaging system that aims to give users quick access to emails and other communications like instant messaging in a unified way that stores a complete history of individual online conversations. Facebook Messages is being rolled out over the next month to Facebook users who now have the […]

What’s next from Facebook? Speculation about what the company plans to unveil Monday has ramped up considerably. Initial reports were that Facebook plans to introduce an email service for Facebook users that TechCrunch claimsis informally referred to inside Facebook as a “Gmail Killer.” The invitation to Monday’s event features a graphic of two chat boxes […]

IBM said its Migration Factory program continues to pay big dividends as the computer giant reported a record number of new customers last quarter from competitors HP and Oracle. A quarterly record 286 customers migrated to IBM (NYSE: IBM) Power Systems from competitors in the third quarter, including 172 from Oracle/Sun and 95 from HP, […]

Oracle continues to leverage and integrate technology it gained with the acquisition of Sun Microsystems as part of its integrated software/hardware pitch to enterprise customers. The latest example is Tuesday’s release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Ops Center, designed to greatly reduce hardware management costs as well as the operational costs associated with a move […]