Clint Boulton

Imagine being able to control a company’s data center through an avatar, a digital projection of a person. IBM has made this possible. Fresh from IBM’s research lab in Hawthorne, N.Y., the 3-D Data Center application allows IT experts to use virtual reality technology to manage data center resources from remote locations all over the […]

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told two wire media services the company is standing by its offer to purchase rival Yahoo for $31 per share, characterizing it as “fair.” “There’s nothing that’s gone on other than us stating that we think it’s a fair offer,” the Microsoft chairman told the Associated Press on Feb. […]

Google, which built its empire with text-based ads in paid links, this week is beginning to test video ads on its Web site, part of the company’s evolving universal search strategy that mixes images, videos, and other information with its traditional text links. The idea is to provide a richer search experience more akin to […]

It’s no secret one of the traits that makes Yahoo so attractive to Microsoft are its mobile assets, but it’s hard to quantify such assets because Yahoo doesn’t advertise those assets or their productivity in financial reports. Equity research analysts from Bear Stearns estimate that Yahoo is positioned to capture up to 5 percent of […]

When Google unveiled Android last Nov. 5 the company positioned the open-source mobile operating system as a complete stack: operating system, middleware, user-friendly interface and applications. The stated goal of its supporting group, the Open Handset Alliance, was to lower the cost of developing and distributing devices while providing a better user experience for customers […]

Freshly laid-off Yahoo employees and remaining employees uncertain about their company’s future in the wake of Microsoft’s $44.6 billion purchase offer may have a go-to option at MySpace. A source familiar with the company’s plans told eWEEK that MySpace, which is looking to double its workforce to fill positions in the new San Francisco and […]

Microhoo or Screw You? Microhoo or Screw You? – Yahoos Option 1 Yahoo Should… 1. Deal with News Corp.Several reports suggested Yahoo and Rupert Murdoch’s money machine were considering a tie-up. News Corp. would take a 20 percent or greater stake while Yahoo would take MySpace and run with it. Flickr, del.icio.us and MySpace could […]

In what reads like a plea for survival as much as a list of merits and strengths, Jerry Yang sent this letter to shareholders last night detailing why Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid (which has dropped a few billion since it was made two weeks ago) undervalues the company. Among the superlatives: 500 million users (or […]

Perhaps to keep its GroupWise e-mail customers from flocking to rivals Microsoft and IBM, Novell has purchased SiteScape, which enables employees in distributed locations to better communicate and easily share content with social networking tools. Financial terms of the Feb. 13 deal were not made public. SiteScape makes a software package called SiteScape Forum ZX […]

A funny thing happened at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona this week. Google’s Android got all the attention after chip makers such as TI and ARM demonstrated the open-source operating system on prototype phones. Meanwhile, seven members of the open-source mobile OS group LiMo Foundation quietly introduced 15 commercial-ready phones. Backers of Android, […]