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David Needle

David Needle is a veteran technology reporter based in Silicon Valley. He covers mobile, big data, customer experience, and social media, among other topics. He was formerly news editor at Infoworld, editor of Computer Currents and TabTimes, and West Coast bureau chief for both InformationWeek and Internet.com.

iPad’s Success Leads Gartner to Revise PC Forecast Downward

The good news for PC makers is that research firm Gartner expects PC shipments to continue to boom along...

HP’s Strong Earnings Kicks Off the Leo Apotheker Era

HP's (NYSE: HPQ) new CEO Leo Apotheker is hitting the ground running (and not from Oracle). The computer giant reported...

Dell’s Profits an Upside Surprise

Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) posted solid earnings for the third quarter today of $822 million or 42 cents a...

Google Brings New Services to Renamed Google Apps for Business

Independent developers have helped Google steadily ramp up its Apps Marketplace, an online storefront for programs that works with...

Datapipe Pushes Amazon Web Services for the Enterprise

While some managed service providers position themselves as alternatives to Amazon's fast-growing Amazon Web Services (AWS), Datapipe is taking...

Facebook Messages: Non-Email Email

SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook showed off a new messaging system that aims to give users quick access to emails...

Facebook Readies Gmail Killer?

What's next from Facebook? Speculation about what the company plans to unveil Monday has ramped up considerably. Initial reports were...

IBM Claims Big Customer Wins at Oracle, HP’s Expense

IBM said its Migration Factory program continues to pay big dividends as the computer giant reported a record number...

Oracle Expands Ops Center’s Reach With Hardware Management

Oracle continues to leverage and integrate technology it gained with the acquisition of Sun Microsystems as part of its...