Clint Boulton

Texas Instruments has joined ARM as a second chip maker to give the Google-forged Android mobile operating system a test drive at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona Feb. 11. TI is showing off a prototype smart phone based on its OMAP850 processor that provides access to a WebKit open-source Web browser, contacts, Gmail, […]

This could get ugly. Yahoo is prepared to reject Microsoft’s offer of $44.6 billion after board members met by phone, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The Journal, citing an anonymous source, said the board believes the $31-per-share offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo because it doesn’t account for the risks Yahoo would be […]

Yahoo’s board is allegedly meeting today to discuss Microsoft’s 44.6 billion proposal to buy it out and save it from a slow, painful death, according to Michael Arrington on Techcrunch. This of course comes a day after the House Judiciary Committee cancelled a hearing on the privacy and antitrust implications of the deal. My colleague […]

Microsoft has scored a coup versus rivals Apple and Symbian in the mobile space, getting Sony Ericsson to make smart phones that run the software giant’s Windows Mobile operating system. The two companies will unveil the first gadget in what will be a Windows-Mobile-based smart phone line Feb. 11 at the Mobile World Congress show […]

Google’s new Apps Team Edition is an interesting software package for Google, but I’d be lying if I said it’s what I expected so soon in this young 2008. When I asked Apps customers last year what was on their wish list, team collaboration wasn’t one of the things, but I guess I polled the […]

ARM, whose chips power more than 90 percent of all mobile devices worldwide, plans to demonstrate a prototype mobile phone running Android’s mobile operating system stack next week at the Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona. A Google spokesperson told eWEEK Feb. 7 that ARM will be demonstrating Android on an early prototype device to […]

If Microsoft succeeds in its $44.6 billion bid to buy Yahoo, the Internet world will turn its weary eyes to Google to see the No. 1 search vendor’s response. AOL might be Google’s best play at this stretch if it wants to pick up the gauntlet thrown by its Redmond, Wash., software rival. Google already […]

Since Microsoft made its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo Feb. 1, reaction in the industry has been mixed. Analysts saw Microsoft’s move as necessary to become a challenger to Google in the Internet market. Google predictably opposed the deal, making the argument that the Redmond, Wash, software giant was trying to duplicate online its monopoly […]

Sharing documents and files with coworkers through Google Apps may be a fine alternative to collaboration software from Microsoft and IBM. But IT departments have still had to configure the apps so groups of users can share them more easily. Google is changing that to enable easier team collaboration in the cloud by releasing Google […]