David Needle

The AMD-Intel antitrust case exploded in controversy this week when Intel (Quote) admitted it is missing an unknown number of e-mails and documents that AMD requested. Despite what Intel said was a massive effort to comply with AMD’s requests for documents, including tape back ups of over a 1,000 of its employees’ correspondence, the chip giant […]

Sybase subsidiary iAnywhere is readying mobile instant messaging and presence capabilities for its Information Anywhere e-mail suite. The new offering is due out by the second quarter of this year and will also be available as a standalone component. A 30-day free trial version will also be available. Features include support for several enterprise instant messaging […]

Cisco (Quote) has dropped its lawsuit over Apple’s planned use of the iPhone trademark in its forthcoming handset. Wednesday night the two companies issued a joint statement that they had resolved the dispute. The agreement leaves both firms free to use the iPhone trademark on their products throughout the world, according to the statement. Both Apple […]

Is the mobile device glass half empty or half full? According to an global study of mobile users, there are plenty of consumer complaints about the latest crop of wireless handheld devices. But the Forum to Advance the Mobile Experience (FAME), which surveyed 14,000 consumers in 37 countries for its Global Mobile Mindset Audit, sees […]

Hold the iPhone. The Cisco versus Apple trademark dispute hasn’t been resolved, but negotiations have been extended. Late Thursday Cisco (Quote)  issued a statement that it is granting Apple’s request for more time to reply to the lawsuit filed by the networrking giant. “Cisco has agreed to give Apple an extension until Wednesday, Feb. 21. […]

SAN FRANCISCO — HP is ramping up its server and blade line with new products as well as a major new version of its HP-UX 11i operating system, HP-UX 11i v3. The computer and printer giant added to its Integrity line with the addition of an r2660 entry class server and the Integrity BL860c Server […]

SAN FRANCISCO –- VeriSign (Quote) CEO Stratton Sclavos said Internet security threats are growing and he gently chastised the industry for not doing more to help consumers stay out of harm’s way. “The security industry is the laggard,” said Sclavos during his keynote session at the RSA Conference 2007. “We’ve always said if we force customers […]

You might think attendees at a security conference would take extra precautions to ensure their notebook’s safety. Think again. According to mobile security vendor AirDefense, some 56 percent of 623 wireless devices at the RSA conference in San Francisco were susceptible to attacks based on its study of wireless traffic at the show Tuesday. But […]

Web acceleration giant Akamai (Quote), based in Cambridge, Mass, looked to Silicon Valley for its latest acquisition, Mountain View, Calif. based Netli. The transaction, subject to the normal regulatory approvals, is worth about $177 million, or 3.2 million shares of Akamai common stock at today’s closing price of $55. The acquisition of Netli is expected […]

PALM DESERT, Calif. — Both the free-wheeling nature of the Internet and security solutions were on display at DEMO, a two-day industry conference here this week. Alcatel-Lucent Ventures previewed “Project Evros” technology developed at Bell Labs. The company’s Mobile Endpoint Management System is a wireless platform that includes a 3G PCMCIA card equipped with its […]