David Needle

There’s Software as a Service (SaaS). Now IBM has teamed up with StrikeIron to help enterprise and business customers get Data as a Service (DaaS). The deal adds seven of StrikeIron’s data services as widgets on IBM’s Mashup Hub. From there, users can drag and drop the data into IBM’s QEDWiki, a browser-based framework for […]

VMware (Quote) has released “a majority” of its VMware Tools as open source software. The announcement, part of the company’s Open Virtual Machine Tools (Open-VM-Tools) project, was made Tuesday at its VMworld conference in San Francisco. The company said VMware Tools is a set of guest operating system virtualization components designed to improve the performance and […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Don’t tell AMD’s CEO Hector Ruiz that the long-awaited release of the chip firm’s Quad-Core AMD Opteron will keep it in the server game with arch-rival Intel. “That makes my hair stand up,” Ruiz told a small group of reporters today ahead of the chip’s formal introduction later tonight. “I don’t know […]

SAN FRANCISCO — What is Web 2.0’s place in the enterprise? Attendees took on the question from multiple angles at the Office 2.0 conference here. While there seemed to be agreement that corporate adoption of Web technologies like blogs and Wikis is inevitable, there were different views on how to get there and the potential […]

That was fast. Apple’s iPhone was the top-selling smartphone model in the U.S. for July, the first full month it was available. Survey results released today by iSuppli ranked the iPhone with about 20 percent share of domestic smartphone sales, ahead of the best-selling Blackberry models and other popular smartphones. “The iPhone sales for July […]

Is the iPhone a serious device for business? Apple (Quote) isn’t marketing it that way, but a growing chorus of companies are working to make the device more appealing to business users. The latest is WebEx. “We are not going so far as to say IT departments should buy iPhones,” Jack Chawla, senior director of project […]

By one measure, Apple’s iPhone has received the highest of compliments: It’s drawn the attention of hackers and tinkerers working non-stop to unlock the features that tie the phone service to AT&T. A New Jersey teenager took a hardware approach with tools that included a soldering iron in order to replace the iPhone’s SIM chip […]

It’s not as if Sun Microsystems did something as dramatic as change its name, but the news that it will change its stock ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA left some observers baffled, if not angry. Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz made the announcement yesterday on his blog, noting the switch from SUNW to JAVA for […]

How often do you need help finding someone? Perhaps more often than you realize. Online directories, search engines and other resources you can use to find people on the Web are hardly new. But many of these don’t do a great job because they either aren’t tuned to a specific people-finder function or they’re hard […]

Reporter’s Notebook PALO ALTO — Talk about walking into the lion’s den. Controversial author Andrew Keen participated in a panel discussion before a roomful of Web entrepreneurs, executives and online media types in the wrap-up session of the AlwaysOn conference here. If that wasn’t enough, a giant screen onstage projected bloggers’ snide comments on the […]