Clint Boulton

A mobile phone from Google would enable the search market leader to better tap into what researcher IDC claims will be a $2 billion market opportunity for mobile advertising by 2011. It would also change the mobile phone, operating system and services markets for the current crop of potential Google partners and rivals. Asked Oct. […]

Google is likely to release a mobile operating system and a suite of mobile applications that enable online services, not fashion its own mobile phone, according to industry experts. Amid speculation from several news outlets and blogs, the key question remains: what cards will Google show for its mobile play? “Thats the $64,000 question,” said […]

Google continues to hurtle along its path to creating a social network for consumers, acquiring small Finnish startup Jaiku today for an undisclosed sum. According to a fact sheet on its site, Jaiku enables users to post thoughts, converse, and share photos, blog entries and other digital stuff with friends. In other words, Jaiku’s software […]

Google and IBM said yesterday they have created a computing cluster comprised of hundreds of servers and open-source software for universities to help them practice what the companies call parallel or “cloud” computing. The ACCI (Academic Cluster Computing Initiative) will allow students and faculty to access the cluster from anywhere through the Web to work […]

Determined to push the envelope in Web 2.0, IBM has fashioned a fresh mashup platform it hopes will help business users pull data feeds from multiple sources and drop them into one application. IBM Mashup Starter Kit, available Oct. 9 for download on IBMs alphaWorks site, includes Mashup Hub, a mashup server that serves as […]

More than a month after testing in-video ads on select YouTube videos, Google Oct. 9 began formally offering video units to content providers in its AdSense network. Video units will allow AdSense publishers to display targeted video content from YouTube content partners within an embedded player supported by ads, which will roll once a user […]

Computer science students are getting a chance to learn about distributed computing from two of the biggest names in high tech. Google and IBM said they will provide servers and open-source software to help students and researchers at colleges and universities write software to build out the Internet. The ACCI (Academic Cluster Computing Initiative), announced […]

Looking to offer a more collaborative experience for its customers, Vivisimo on Oct. 8 said it will soon add social tagging, bookmarking and networking capabilities to its enterprise search platform. Vivisimos Velocity 6.0 enterprise search platform is designed to help users mine the collective insight of their colleagues to get better search results. For example, […]

SAPs bid to purchase business intelligence market leader Business Objects for $6.78 billion Oct. 8 is reverberating throughout the industry and, for the moment, poses the question about the value of business intelligence without collaboration. BI includes software that supports business processes by collecting information about the relative health of a business, such as information […]

Earlier this week, Google opened an office in San Francisco and MySpace has started blasting out invites to the opening of its San Francisco office. Google set up its taco stand at 345 Spear St., where it is occupying several floors and around 200,000 square feet at what is known as Hills Plaza. Reports claim […]