David Needle

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today released major additions to its server line based on the company’s latest Power7 processor including a 256-core Unix system it says easily trumps competitive systems from Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and HP (NYSE: HPQ). After finally acquiring Sun Microsystems, Oracle launched an aggressive marketing campaign for its high-end servers that claimed the […]

With over 30 million visitors a month using its PowerPoint, Word document and Adobe PDF sharing service, you might think SlideShare wouldn’t mess with what’s working. But as the company looks to grow its revenue and make sure its business customers are getting the features they want, a change in strategy made sense; in fact […]

Touting what it says is “significantly lower” total cost of ownership, Sybase has announced that its IQ 15 business intelligence (BI) software is now a reference architecture on HP ProLiant DL785 servers. The joint solution is designed to optimize query response and data loads, while reducing overhead, storage costs and maintenance requirements. You could already […]

Google had high hopes for Wave, its cloud-based collaboration service, actively pursuing beta testers and working with third party developers to extend the service. But Wave’s future crashed last week when the search giant announced it was killing off the project because it was disappointed with the rate of user adoption. But one of the […]

Say so long to Google Wave. The search giant killed the ambitious collaboration software despite what it said were “numerous loyal fans.” The Wave project was kept under wraps until it’s surprise debut at Google’s I/O developer conferencein May 2009. In a blog post Wednesday, Google admitted that while it was excited by Wave’s potential, […]

LinkedIn, the popular social network geared for professionals, has acquired startup mSpoke, a company that offers a cloud-based recommendation engine designed to make online content more relevant. Financial terms weren’t released. The three services powered by the main mSpoke engine, or “spokes,” are mPower, mSense and mTrend. mTrend is a monitoring tool designed to help […]

It won’t be too long before most mobile phones won’t have to be “smart” to offer a full Web browsing experience. A new study by ABI Research says that by 2015 some 3.8 billion, or more than 60 percent of the installed base of mobile handsets worldwide, will include mobile browsers. The research firm estimates […]

Hewlett-Packard said it has reached a settlement with the Department of Justice this week over a long-running case involving government contracts, though the PC maker denied it did anything illegal. A report in the Financial Timessaid the case dates back to 2007 and involves complaints HP (NYSE: HPQ) overcharged the government on multiple federal contracts. […]

Social networks were the big winners in a new a Nielsen study of how American consumers use the Internet. Compared to a year ago, the use of social networks like Facebook and Twitter rose 43 percent to account for 22.7 percent of the time people said they spend online. Online gaming jumped into second place […]

Public cloud storage services are fast becoming a more attractive option for the enterprise, according to a new report by research firm Ovum. In its “Clouds Open for Enterprise Storage” report, Ovum said that a new generation of services is emerging in public clouds that can handle live data generated by applications running on customers’ […]