David Needle

Does the world need another browser? The co-creator of the first Internet browser thinks so. Marc Andreessen, who co-founded Netscape, is a lead investor in RockMelt, a new browser backed by his Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm. “RockMelt is onto something huge. They’ve rethought the browser around the massive shifts in user behavior that will […]

Search Google faster on your iPhone or Android. David Needle reports. Google has released a beta of Google Instant for mobile devices. Instant, the search enhancement Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) introduced in September, is designed to give user’s quicker access to results by providing results as soon as just the first few characters or words are […]

The high profile software theft case between rivals Oracle and SAP is kicking into high gear — or at least high drama. An Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) spokesman confirmed Thursday that CEO Larry Ellison is scheduled to testify in the case this coming Monday. The case involves TomorrowNow, a former subsidiary of SAP that offered third-party […]

Cloud computing is hot, but those in-house data centers won’t go away anytime soon — this awareness is the core of HP’s new ‘Instant-On’ strategy. David Needle reports. To read some of the breathless accounts touting the benefits of cloud computing, you might think most companies have already ditched their traditional on-premises infrastructure and jumped […]

The latest version of Adobe’s Connect conferencing software for the enterprise, released Monday, has features designed to make starting and joining an online conference easier and accessible to more users, including those with mobile devices. “It’s a very clean interface for users to get up to speed very quickly. We did a lot of user […]

Cloud computing is — or should be — on every IT decision makers radar, given the potential cost savings and prospects for a more flexible and scalable IT infrastructure. But moving to the cloud is hardly a slam dunk for many enterprises. First there is the basic issue of the work and resources required to […]

The Internet is universally lauded for the openness that lets virtually anyone launch a website or a Web services business. It’s a model that lets companies like Facebook grow to over 500 million users in a few short years and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) build a multi-billion dollar search empire. While the Web remains largely open, […]

As video streaming threatens enterprise networks, Gartner research vice president Joe Skopura said video caching and stream-splitting can help IT manage the impact of video on a company’s WAN or Internet gateway. David Needle reports. Some IT shops may view such dire warnings the same way an earlier generation scoffed at that Noah guy. But […]

In a lengthy state-of-the-company report, Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie recapped the software giant’s accomplishments in Web services, but also pointed out where the it has come up short. Ozzie, Microsoft’s chief software architect, announced his plans to retire from Microsoft, after a period of transition, earlier this month. Ozzie criticized Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) execution in certain […]

It seems like everyone has a mobile phone these days, so why are so many maintenance workers and facility managers still walking around with clipboards? IBM (NYSE: IBM) wondered the same thing, leading to an extension of its Maximo asset management software, called Maximo Everyplace, designed specifically for mobile devices. The new browser-based edition works […]