Clint Boulton

NEW YORK-Drawing parallels between the evolution of the electrical grid and computing grid models, the pundit who shocked the high-tech world by claiming IT doesn’t matter summarized his latest book in his keynote at the Search Engine Strategies 2008 show here March 18. Nicholas Carr drilled into theories from his latest book “The Big Switch: […]

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In the ultimate promotion of his book, Nicholas Carr discussed the past, present and future of computing during a keynote at the Search Engine Strategies 2008 show in New York this morning.I’ve read synopses of “The Big Switch: Rewiring The World, from Edison to Google” in several of my peers writings, and even discussed it […]

U.S. users tired of dialing 1-800-GOOG-411 on their mobile devices to look up business information will get a reprieve. Google’s free local search service will soon be available over Bluetooth headsets, courtesy of a hookup between the search giant and speech recognition software maker Sensory, the companies said March 18. Financial terms of the deal […]

The talks between Microsoft and Yahoo this week have ratcheted up speculation about what Google might do to answer such a deal. Should Google buy Apple, pairing its killer Web apps with a killer mobile device to battle Microhoo in the mobile ad market? Perhaps it could buy Adobe, as some analysts have speculated, to […]

Dialcom will begin selling its Spontania software suite to enterprises in the United States March 17 and expects it can make a dent in the unified communications and collaboration market currently being split by Cisco Systems, IBM and Microsoft. Spontania delivers instant messaging, voice, video and data utilities over any device or network to employees […]

One day after Google launched a test flight of a free ad-serving tool, Microsoft agreed to acquire Rapt, which makes advertising yield management software for online publishers. Terms of the deal were not made public. Microsoft officials March 14 said they will fold Rapt’s technology and information and advisory services into the Atlas Publisher Suite […]

Google’s advantages over Microsoft in leveraging the Internet to make money and attract users are well documented, but there is one area Google isn’t playing in where Microsoft seems to have Google beaten: rich media applications. Microsoft March 5 took its Silverlight rich Web app into its second beta. High-tech media and analysts love to […]

With AOL picking up Bebo today for $850 million, I have to believe any potential deal to combine Yahoo and AOL are dead, if one was even on the table. By buying Bebo, AOL is looking to ramp up its online ad strategy. Bebo, with its 40 million users, could be a good testing ground […]

AOL, which has been struggling to reposition itself as an Internet company, agreed to buy London-based Bebo for $850 million in cash. Bebo ranks third behind MySpace’s 110 million users and Facebook’s 66 million-plus friends with 40 million users. AOL already enjoys about 40 million users of its AIM and ICQ instant messaging networks, so […]