David Needle

In a closely watched trial that included a video deposition by late Apple CEO Steve Jobs, a jury Tuesday unanimously found Apple didn’t try to create a monopoly by blocking other music services from playing on its best-selling iPod. In taking only three hours of deliberation to issue its verdict, the jury ended a complex […]

Did Apple’s iPod become the dominant music player illegally? That’s the charge in a billion dollar suit that claims Apple shut out competitors. But in a new wrinkle to the high-profile case that got under way earlier this week, Apple Thursday challenged the legal qualifications of two women who are the primary plaintiffs to pursue […]

The era of the so-called Internet of things has been talked about so much in tech circles the past few years that some may think it’s already here. But smartwatches, Google Glass and clothing embedded with sensors hardly represent a full mainstream deployment of the system. So what has to happen to make the Internet […]

New mobile technology and startup ventures dominated at the DEMO Fall conference Nov. 18-20 in San Jose, Calif., and there was a good reason for that, according to industry analyst Benedict Evans, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. “Mobile is eating the world. It’s the first time the tech industry […]