David Needle

There are millions of Twitter users, but the number of application developers supporting the microblogging platform isn’t too shabby, either. In an inaugural e-mail newsletter detailing the company’s progress, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said some 70,000 registered applications have been created for the platform. Third-party applications do everything from helping users manage their Twitter accounts […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The major players in search agree on one thing – providing real-time results from social networks like Twitter is important to their strategy of getting users the most relevant results. What they don’t agree on is the best way to do it. “I think they’re all learning, what we’re seeing today […]

The race to streamline online access to medical records turned into a stampede this week as leading high-tech vendors trumpeted new initiatives at the Health Information and Management Systems Society” (HIMSS) trade show in Atlanta. Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), Dell, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) IBM and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are all at the conference to tout new […]

Companies are increasingly using leading social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to get their message out, but some recent research indicates many are going beyond the most popular brands both for marketing and customer support. Social media writer and consultant Paul Gillin said the early returns from a survey he just finished across a […]

Google continues to tinker and update its Gmail e-mail service at a steady clip. Back in 2008 Google launched Gmail Labs, a sort of test launch pad for new features its engineers dreamed up and users had the option of trying. These Gmail features “graduate” to the standard Gmail if they prove worthwhile. One example […]

Google hopes to become a major player in the enterprise space with its cloud-based Google Apps suite. But to do that, it’s looking to third-party developers and resellers to help flesh out its offering and distribution. With Cloud Sherpas, it gets both. The company is a Google Apps reseller as well as a developer offering […]

Google continues to invest in DoubleClick, the ad management systemit bought in 2007 for a whopping $3.1 billion. Today Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) released a major upgrade to the ad server that includes a new interface and new features designed to make it easier for publishers to manage ad campaigns across multiple Web sites, including when […]

Tweeting and social networks are increasingly popular, but good, old e-mail continues to be a key communications tool for U.S. workers, who often use it to an extreme, according to a new report. In the second annual Mobile Messaging Study by Osterman Research, more than 95 percent of respondents said they still check e-mail after […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple CEO Steve Jobs was the subject of some gentle ribbing here at Macworld Expo, the same show at which he and Apple launched numerous products over the years. Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) made shockwaves among Mac fans last year when the company announced it would not participate in the iconic Apple-oriented event […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google took the wraps off a significant update to its Gmail service with Buzz, a new service it says brings more efficiency and security to the sea of tweets and other real-time feeds in which it says users are drowning. “There’s value there, but it’s increasingly harder and harder to find […]