David Needle

Taking a page from popular promotions in the automotive industry, HP’s financing group said it’s now offering zero-percent financing for small to medium-sized businesses, aiming to make it easier for them to build out new IT projects even as technology budgets remain tight. The HP (NYSE: HPQ) program provides promotional deals on financing for up […]

It doesn’t come with a cape, but Google’s Nexus One — dubbed the “Super Phone” — offers a host of new features and capabilities. EnterpriseMobileToday.com has the details on the highly anticipated phone.

Have you gone Google yet? It may be only a matter of time as the company keeps coming up with tools that make it easier to work on the Web. David Needle at InternetNews.com takes a look at the latest offering from Google Sites. Google has released a set of templates for its site creation […]

It’s tempting to say Box.net is thinking outside the box with its latest release, but that turn of a phrase isn’t quite accurate. The company says its move to add more social network features is more a natural evolution of its business. Box.net continues to offer its namesake free online storage service that lets up […]

Google has just announced it’s making an offline version of its Gmail e-mail service available today. The new feature will be initially available to users of its Google Apps online suite of productivity applications, which includes Gmail. Over the next few weeks, Google said it will make the feature available to consumers and others who […]

Every year, research firm Basex calculates the cost of information overload and the numbers keep going up by a staggering amount. For 2008, Basex estimates information overload cost the U.S. economy $900 billion in lost productivity. For 2006, that figure was $588 billion. “We’re continuing to generate more content, and companies like Google introduce silly […]

Google has announced a significant enhancement to the chat feature in its Gmail e-mail service with the addition of video and voice features. The free plug-in lets users start a video and voice (or voice-only) session within Gmail. You don’t have to launch a separate application to start a video session. AOL’s popular Instant Messenger […]

Writers beware, no matter how good you think you are, chances are Web surfers don’t have time to pour over your precious prose. Surfers scour the Web or leverage search engines to find the information they want, and if your site doesn’t deliver the goods quickly they’ll probably just click elsewhere. “Most bad writing happens […]

Google announced new features and a new name for its former Custom Search Business Edition service. The rechristened Google Site Search (GSS) includes a supplemental index the search giant said reaches more of a company’s content and also provides more customization options of search results. Hosted by Google, the GSS service is available now at […]

You might think “everyone” is on the Web, but when it comes to small business, that’s often not the case. Much as they might appreciate the benefits of having an online presence to reach more customers, the truly small mom-and-pop operations often don’t have the time, resources or expertise to create and manage a Web […]

Security vendor McAfee released results of a survey of mobile users focused on their awareness and concerns related to security threats, which showed more than three quarters of respondents don’t have any security at all. The survey was conducted on McAfee’s behalf by analysis firm Datamonitor and released this week. Respondents were spread evenly between […]

Technology often seems to improve merely for its own sake. We’ve all too often witnessed “feature creep” in our favorite software apps, services, and devices, with new developments not just adding new enhancements, but cost and complexity as well. Isn’t it high time that the innovators in technology focus on our needs in earnest? Fortunately, […]