David Needle

In a stunning disclosure, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Tuesday said a restricted campus database with the Social Security numbers and other personal information about some 800,000 current and some former students has been hacked. The information includes names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and contact information for students, staff […]

Who’s got the most energy efficient servers? With all the competing claims it’s hard to say, but add Dell to the growing list of server makers looking to make that claim. Today Dell (Quote) unveiled two additions to its PowerEdge server line that require less power and sport better performance per watt than comparable models in […]

PALO ALTO, Calif. – HP previewed a new energy management system the company said could save corporations as much as $1 million per data center per year, or up to 20 to 45 percent of the cost to keep those data centers cool. At a press event here at HP Labs, company officials said it […]

Patricia Dunn, who resigned as chairman of Hewlett-Packard (Quote) in the midst of a pretexting scandal, pleaded not guilty to four felony counts at an arraignment today in San Jose, Calif. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, said in the criminal complaint filed Oct. 4 that Dunn and four other defendants were charged with: fraudulent wire communications; […]

Now it’s Intel’s turn. AMD shocked the chip giant last year when it was first to market with a dual-core processor for servers. The AMD Opteron was an immediate hit, not only in taking a healthy bite out of Intel’s dominant market share, but winning the company blue chip server makers like HP, IBM and […]

Stolen and missing laptops and the security of other valuable IT assets have vendors scrambling to come up with better solutions. Enter Vector Networks, which has added another tool to its asset management lineup designed to help companies better secure their hardware. Working in conjunction with the Atlanta-based firm’s mainstay Vector Asset Management Professional is […]

Tired of pecking out text messages on your phone? Nuance Communications promises help is on the way. At the Conversations Mobile conference this week in Orlando, Fla., Nuance showed off a beta of Nuance Mobile Dictation, which lets mobile phone users use speech to create text messages, avoiding the keypad altogether. To highlight the advantages […]

Within a few weeks Fiorina said she thinks some board members concluded “we don’t have to take this anymore.” Later she said the HP was “… faced with an emotional set of events, about how the company should be organized … some people decided to put that on the front page of the Wall Street […]

PALO ALTO, CALIF. — RFID (define) has already proven itself a supply chain asset to help manufacturers and retailers keep track of merchandise, so why not apply the concept to the data center? The potential is appealing because it would help IT managers keep track of changes in server racks when something is moved, not working, […]

Nokia (Quote, Chart) has introduced a less power-hungry alternative to Bluetooth wireless networking, a radio technology with the potential to connect a broader spectrum of devices including watches, toys and sports sensors. In addition to consuming what it said is a fraction of the power of Bluetooth (define), Finland phone giant Nokia said its new Wibree […]