Clint Boulton

Customers and industry watchers can expect IBM to accelerate its cloud computing efforts into 2010 and beyond, investing at a rate that is commensurate to a $120 billion cloud computing market, an IBM executive told eWEEK. “Cloud computing” is a broad term that encompasses many things in the IT sector, but it’s most commonly understood […]

With the end of 2009 drawing nigh, Google is reportedly brokering a deal to buy local search and review property Yelp for $500 million, a royal sum for a company that banked $31 million in funding and boasts a $30 million run rate. Google is no stranger to such premiums and set a serious precedent […]

There’s been a lot of debate about how Google plans to sell its forthcoming Nexus One smartphone, a thin, speedy device based on the Android 2.1 operating system. The most intriguing scenario is one in which Google sells the device unsubsidized online and unlocked, letting users pick their wireless provider. Because we’re fond of catch […]

15 Twitter Lists You Need to Follow No Title Tech News BrandsBlogger extraordinaire Robert Scoble created this gem of nearly 500 high-tech news sources, from the New York Times to TechCrunch. No Title IPhoneScoble scores again here with this iPhone List, which follows iPhone developers and companies that make things for Apple’s smash-hit iPhone. No […]

10 Ways Smartphones, Mobile Devices Are Influencing the Webs Future by Clint Boulton No Title More Than 1 Billion ServedFor perspective, more than 1.6 billion people – a little over a quarter of the world’s population – used the Internet in 2009, IDC said. That number will balloon to 2.2 billion people, or more than […]

Today’s chatter is all about how Google is buying local business review player Yelp for some $500 million. The only surprise for many of us Google Watchers is that this hasn’t happened already. But hey, the recession snuffed out M&A in 2008 and Google has proven itself to be back at the bargaining table in […]

AppJet, the collaboration startup Google acquired two weeks ago today, Dec. 17 released its EtherPad code and sent its users invitations to try Google Wave. Former AppJet CEO and newly minted Google employee Aaron Iba said the code will let developers glean EtherPad’s real-time inducing algorithms and run their own EtherPad servers so that the […]

Google’s Android developer group Dec. 17 released a device dashboard to help developers decide what iterations of the Android operating system their applications should support. That dashboard also happens to show just how fragmented the mobile platform aimed at challenging Apple’s iPhone has become. The device dashboard lists the distribution of Android platform versions on […]

Google Dec. 17 integrated its Google Translate Element into the Google Sites wiki application to let visitors translate site content with one click. Once Website creators add the Translate Element code, whenever people visit a Google Site and find it is in an unfamiliar language they may translate the content into the language of their […]

LinkedIn has improved its search technology by adding new filters to make it easier for the professional networking site’s more than 50 million users to find new contacts. LinkedIn users need to be aware of these faceted search filters, which are generated on the fly based on users’ query results and appear in the new […]

News Analysis: When Google launched its Google Fast Flip service for digitizing the way people read newspapers and magazines Sept. 15, it was a jarring reminder that the future of publishing, or at least the way we consume content is changing. Web pages with publishers’ articles are rendered on the Fast Flip page, where users […]

Google Dec. 16 moved to attack the increasingly prevalent problem of incomplete Web page viewing by creating a tool that lets Web site operators see how visitors see their sites. Browser Size is a nifty 20% time solution to missed buttons that stems from browser clients rendering Web pages on different monitor sizes, or when […]