David Needle

Against the wishes of many IT managers, the Apple iPad has jumped to an early lead in enterperise adoption. Yet RIM, understanding the business market, has launched a competing tablet that it claims was designed with professionals in mind. SAN FRANCISCO — Watch out iPad. Here comes the BlackBerry PlayBook. Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) […]

The Department of Justice has announced a settlement with Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit and Pixar over charges that the Silicon Valley firms had an informal set of agreements not to hire away each other’s top talent. The settlement specifically prevents the six firms from entering into any so-called no-solicitation agreements in hiring employees. According […]

Apple is moving quickly to broaden its distribution channel for its hot-selling iPad, inking a deal to make the tablet computer available at Target stores starting October 3. The retailer announced Friday that it plans to carry all six versions of the iPad starting with the 16GB Wi-Fi model priced at $499.99, as well as […]

Always outspoken, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison addressed several topics in his OpenWorld keynote — including what he sees as the limitations of Salesforce’s approach. SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has at least two things in common with his close friend Steve Jobs: his new found love of integrated hardware and software systems, and […]

The new enhanced version of SAP Carbon Impact OnDemand 5.0 is SAP’s first native cloud application, and is designed to help global companies reduce their energy and carbon footprint across their entire operations and product supply chains. Unlike SAP’s (NYSE: SAP) traditional offerings, Carbon Impact OnDemand 5.0 requires no software installation. The cloud-based service will […]

New technology typically undergoes a long evaluation process before being adopted in the enterprise. One tech leader suggests that the process might go faster were it not for salespeople who are persistent to a fault. SANTA CLARA, Calif. — How do enterprise CIOs decide which new technology products and services to adopt? There may not […]

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — Intel recently paid $7.7 billion to buy McAfee and this week HP paid $1.5 billion for another security firm, Arcsight, but will startup Federated Networks out of Toronto be the first to provide “virtually unhackable” application security? That’s the bold claim of startup Federated Networks. CEO David Lowenstein unveiled the company’s […]

SAN FRANCISCO — In the time it takes you to finish reading this sentence you could easily finish several search queries using Google’s new Google Instant service. Already known for its speedy search results, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) unwrapped new search technology on Wednesday that is designed to greatly simplify the process users go through when […]

Not so fast Oracle. HP didn’t waste much time responding to Oracle’s Labor Day announcement that it had hired former HP (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Mark Hurdas its president. Tuesday, HP filed a civil complaint in California Superior Court aimed at preventing Hurd from working at Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL). The suit claims that by joining Oracle […]

The enterprise sales cycle may be slow and deliberate, but when Oracle sees an opportunity, it doesn’t delay. Late Monday, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced it had hired former HP (NYSE: HPQ) CEO Mark Hurd as a new president. Hurd will share the title of president with Safra Catz as part of Oracle’s executive structure under […]