David Needle

Time Magazine already voted you Person of the Year, so why not run for president? If you’re crazy enough to try, a new Web site is designed to help. The creators of u4prez.com said they can help anyone run a virtual campaign for president of the United States. The official launch is Feb. 1, but […]

Intel has announced a faster Wi-Fi spec that is close enough to final that it will appear in the next notebook computers. The Next-Gen Wireless-N, an embedded network adapter card for notebook computers, reaches speeds up to five times faster than current 802.11g Wi-Fi solutions and has up to twice the range. Intel also said […]

California State prosecutors have reportedly made an offer to drop felony charges against former HP (Quote) chairman Patricia Dunn, who resigned in the wake of the company’s pretexting scandal last year. According to the Associated Press, four other defendants in the case charged with felonies have also been offered deals if they agree to plead guilty […]

HP (Quote) announced an R&D breakthrough today in chip development that could lead to the creation of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) (define) up to eight times denser than those currently being produced. The increased density would greatly reduce the amount of energy needed to power the chips. The company said the new chips could be […]

Investment in IT continues to grow, closing in on $1.48 trillion by 2010, according to a new IDC research report. The study, from IDC’s worldwide vertical market research program, forecasts software spending alone will reach $327 billion by 2010, representing a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.7 percent. Healthcare, communications and government are […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple CEO Steve Jobs is known for making big announcements at Macworld Expo. Today would be no different, especially when he teased the crowd by promising three “breakthroughs” this time around: a cell phone, a wide-screen iPod and an Internet Communicator. But Jobs, in his fashion, finally revealed the breakthroughs as one […]

When Sun reentered the blade market last year it promised to bring new value to the market and not another me-too offering. That strategy continues with today’s announcement of a unique hardware subscription service for the Sun Blade X8420 system. Sun (Quote) said the subscription service is for customers who want the latest, most powerful processors […]

Mobility is going to be a big trend at the giant Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. In addition to the many new notebooks and smart phones, startup WildCharge is slated to preview its unique charging technology. WildCharge, based in Scottsdale, AZ, said it has the first true full-power, wire-free electricity for mobile […]

Tapping into the growing interest and promise of virtualization, IBM and Intel have teamed up to try and help IT managers quantify the value of the technology. Specifically, the computer and chip giants said they are working together on new tools to help IT select, deploy and measure virtualized server solutions for enterprise data centers. […]

Unix customers gave a big thumbs up to IBM and Sun Microsystems in the latest survey results by Gabriel Consulting Group. The research firm’s 4th Quarter Unix Vendor Preference Survey queried 277 enterprise Unix customers about their experience with and perceptions of the three major Unix systems suppliers; HP, IBM and Sun. “The real surprise […]