Clint Boulton

Similar to the joint cloud computing partnership between Google and IBM, HP, Intel and Yahoo are creating open source cloud computing test beds to facilitate wide-scale computing in the world.See eWEEK reporter Scott Ferguson’s breaking coverage of the agreement, which will let users write and test software in the cloud, or on the Internet, here. […]

Yesterday I had a devil of a time accessing new search engine Cuil from my laptop in a Manhattan office.I assure you the location of the connection was not the issue because I was able to access Google, Bloglines and all of my usual applications from there.I then tried Cuil last evening from home and […]

Two days into general public use and startup search engine Cuil is already in hot water.Thanks to quirks in Cuil’s search algorithm, search results of some brands are popping up with pictures of competing or even irrelevant brands.Cuil Vice President of Communications Vince Sollitto just told me Cuil’s engineers are working on the problem. Sollitto […]

Update: BT has agreed to buy VOIP company Ribbit for $105 million in cash.Ribbit’s platform lets developers add voice and automation features to most Web-based apps or social networks. The platform is based on the SmartSwitch, a piece of software that enables voice data to move across land-line and mobile phones, while also integrating with […]

Jack Gold, president and principal analyst at J. Gold Associates, recently predicted that Nokia and Google would unite the open-source mobile operating systems of Symbian and Android within a year or so. Here is some context from which his theory springs: Nokia in June said it was acquiring the remaining 52 million shares it does […]

Rearden Commerce, the Web concierge that lets corporate employees handle their travel arrangements, has bought ExpenseWire, which provides expense management software over the Internet.Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by Rearden, which July 28 also unveiled its International Mobile Service for the Rearden Personal Assistant.ExpenseWire will be tucked into Rearden’s Personal Assistant application. […]

This morning around 8 a.m. EDT, I entered www.cuil.com to check out search startup Cuil (pronounced “cool” and derived from an Irish word for knowledge), which July 28 launched its own unique approach to organizing the ridiculous glut of information on the Web.My point was to learn what I could about the company, its founders […]

Rearden Commerce, the Web concierge service that makes it easier for working stiffs all around the world to book travel arrangements, rent cars and buy theater tickets, is set to announce a “business-service-related” acquisition and a new mobile service soon.The news was supposed to drop Monday, but got squelched because “there is more ‘stuff’ brewing […]

Zimbra, the Yahoo open-source messaging and collaboration unit that tends to get overlooked amid all of the Microsoft-Yahoo merger talk, is beta testing offline access for the Yahoo Mail, Gmail and AOL Mail Web e-mail applications, as well as some Zimbra tools. Leveraging POP (Post Office Protocol), IMAP and the iCal standard for the calendar […]

One thing Facebook execs have down pat is slamming the door on reporters’ questions. If they don’t want to answer something, they’ll tell you point blank: There’s nothing they want to talk about today.The “they,” of course, is more “him,” as in Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who sidestepped some questions and looked confused by others […]

Google has formally released to the public Knol, its alternative encyclopedia service to Wikipedia. Check out the page here at your own risk; it includes a lot of information about diseases. Thus far, Knol is a haven for doctors.Google bills knols, announced last December, as units of knowledge. The service had been limited to invitations […]

Scenes from Facebooks F8 Conference by Clint Boulton Scenes from Facebooks F8 Conference – Hungry Developers Wait for F8 Programmers wait outside the Design Center Concourse for the start of F8, which hosted a fraction of the social network’s more than 400,000 developers. Scenes from Facebooks F8 Conference – Gorillas Write for Facebook SocialCash, which […]