Clint Boulton

In rejecting Microsoft’s $44.6 billion purchase offer, Yahoo has drawn the ire of investors who feel the company isn’t doing right by them. Two Detroit pension funds have initiated a class-action lawsuit against Yahoo and its board of directors for trying to rebuke the bid and attempting to third-party deals which the funds say would […]

The blogosphere is brimming with news of the 10 contestants for the Google Lunar X PRIZE, which the gambit’s site expertly describes in marketing speak as “a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million in prizes.” Is this Google’s way of getting in on the ground floor of extraterrestrial advertising? In […]

LinkedIn has created an application that lets users on the go tap into their professional network from any Web-enabled mobile device, especially Apple’s popular iPhone. Released to open beta Feb. 25, LinkedIn Mobile will let the site’s over 19 million users access the service more easily from iPhones and other smart phones from Nokia, Research […]

In a rally-the-troops e-mail, a senior Microsoft executive explained the benefits of acquiring Yahoo and swatted aside concerns about disparate corporate cultures and technologies. However, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s Platforms & Services Division, stopped short of saying what Microsoft’s next step would be to buy Yahoo in an e-mail to employees Feb. 22. Microsoft […]

Google has wrapped pilot testing of its AdSense for Video effort to let publishers run ads on video content, but it isn’t shocking anyone with the way it’s going about it. In this beta, the search giant is taking a page from YouTube’s playbook, using the InVideo ad approach its video-sharing site started using last […]

Looking to make some progress on helping patients corral their medical data, Google has teamed with the Cleveland Clinic to test the transfer of patient medical records to a personal healthcare portal powered by the search engine. Between 1,500 and 10,000 patients will be invited to participate in the pilot, which links the Cleveland Clinic’s […]

Onesite, which builds blog, wiki and other social networking tools for businesses to incorporate on their Web sites, is buying rival Social Platform for an undisclosed sum. The Feb. 20 deal is the first purchase of a white-label social network tool provider in 2008, a year analysts say is ripe for consolidation in the market […]

By putting up contests to see who can beam high-resolution video from the moon back home, Google has proven it’s into experimenting with new types of technology. The perhaps it comes as no surprise that the search pioneer is reportedly interested in a spaced out way to bring wireless service to millions of rural Americans. […]

Given the structure of Yahoo’s board of directors, Microsoft will likely trigger a proxy fight for the seats of Yahoo’s board without first making a tender offer, proxy solicitation experts said. Proxy experts weighed in after Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates reaffirmed Feb. 19 that his company’s offer was fair in the wake of Yahoo’s Feb. […]

From IBMs Labs: The 3-D Data Center By Clint Boulton By clicking on server doors in the 3-D Data Center application, users can see a machine’s host name, CPU utilization and memory utilization. From IBMs Labs: The 3-D Data Center – Sexy Avatars Check Sexy Servers You’re a U.S.-based IT manager and you can’t get […]